The regulatory bottleneck in Washington is masking a trillion-dollar threat to the U.S. banking core. The rise of stablecoins is moving beyond emerging markets to become a direct threat to domestic balance sheets, investment bank Standard Chartered said in a Tuesday report. The primary risk for U.S. lenders is the erosion of net interest margin (NIM), according to Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered. He identified NIM as the most critical vulnerability because it is drive ...