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Ripple News: Ondo Finance Brings Its $185M Tokenized Treasury to XRP Ledger Network

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Ripple News: Ondo Finance Brings Its 5M Tokenized Treasury to XRP Ledger Network

Ondo Finance, a tokenized real-world asset platform, is bringing its $185 million U.S. Treasury token to the enterprise-focused XRP Ledger network to expand the offering for institutions, the companies said Tuesday.

The Ondo Short-Term US Government Treasuries (OUSG) token is backed by BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) and allows qualified investors to mint and redeem tokens around the clock near instantaneously using the Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin. The deployment is set to go live within the next six months, Ondo Finance said in a blog post.

Both Ripple, the creator of XRP Ledger, and Ondo Finance committed seed investments in the token on the XRP Ledger for initial liquidity. They did not reveal the size of the allocations.

Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is a rapidly growing industry that involves representing traditional finance assets such as bonds, credit and funds on a blockchain. Participants do so in pursuit of faster settlements and increased efficiency compared with traditional banking plumbing.

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Tokenized versions of U.S. Treasury notes spearheaded the trend, and have more than quadrupled over the past year to become a $3.5 billion asset class, rwa.xyz data shows.

“The 24/7 intraday settlement enabled by tokenized assets like OUSG marks a transformative shift in capital flow management, breaking free from traditional trading hours and slow settlements,” Markus Infanger, a senior vice president of RippleX, an XRP Ledger development firm, said in a statement. “These low-risk, high-quality liquidity options not only provide better accessibility for investors but also introduce greater stability to blockchain-based markets.

OUSG follows OpenEden’s TBILL as the second tokenized treasury product available on XRP Ledger. OUSG previously was available on Ethereum, Polygon and Solana.

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Voya Financial declares common and preferred stock dividends

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Voya Financial declares common and preferred stock dividends

NEW YORK, January 30, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) announced today that its board of directors has declared a common stock dividend of $0.45 per share for the first quarter of 2025. The common stock dividend is payable on March 27, 2025, to shareholders of record as of Feb. 25, 2025.

Additionally, Voya’s board declared a semi-annual dividend of $38.79 per share on the company’s Series A 7.758% fixed-rate reset non-cumulative preferred stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”). The board also declared a quarterly dividend of $13.3750 per share on the company’s Series B 5.35% fixed-rate reset non-cumulative preferred stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”), equivalent to $0.334375 per depositary share, each of which represents a 1/40th ownership interest in a share of Series B Preferred Stock. The first quarter preferred stock dividends are payable on March 17, 2025, to shareholders of record as of Feb. 25, 2025.

About Voya Financial®
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) is a leading health, wealth and investment company with approximately 9,000 employees who are focused on achieving Voya’s aspirational vision: “Clearing your path to financial confidence and a more fulfilling life.” Through products, solutions and technologies, Voya helps its 15.2 million individual, workplace and institutional clients become well planned, well invested and well protected. Benefitfocus, a Voya company and a leading benefits administration provider, extends the reach of Voya’s workplace benefits and savings offerings by engaging directly with over 12 million employees in the U.S. Certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work® Institute, Voya is purpose-driven and committed to conducting business in a way that is economically, ethically, socially and environmentally responsible. Voya has earned recognition as: one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere; a member of the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” on the Disability Equality Index. For more information, visit voya.com. Follow Voya Financial on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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Jean Chatzky on the growing interest in personal finance education

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Here’s what the federal government does for you

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As pandemonium descended Tuesday after the Trump administration directed a freeze on federal funding, the chaos drove home a salient point: The federal government does a lot for you.

The administration targeted 2,623 federal programs for review in circulated instructions, ordering agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to…all Federal financial assistance.” Funding for programs that provide health insurance, childcare, food assistance, housing aid, and much, much more remained uncertain.

Disrupting the federal government plumbing is a delicate process that, if done crudely, could hit vital lifelines for the American people. You simply can’t turn off the water — even temporarily.

“The government is involved in things that people don’t feel all the time, a lot of things we take for granted like safe drinking water,” said Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress. “Except when it fails miserably.”

People protest against a funding freeze of federal grants and loans following a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding near to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) · ASSOCIATED PRESS

Few federal programs seemed exempt from the directive that came from the Office of Management and Budget. More than 50 agencies were tasked with conducting reviews during the freeze to make sure their programs complied with the president’s executive orders.

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The ones that sparked the most outrage were programs that help America’s most vulnerable with funding deadlines looming over the next few days, such as Section 8 housing assistance, Medicaid, and the Head Start reimbursement program that gives low-income families money for their children’s education.

They were also some of the payment systems that went down on Tuesday.

“That could have truly harmed people — if you take away people’s nutrition, healthcare, housing, education — things people depend on,” Kogan said.

What may still be in the crosshairs: under-the-radar supports that millions of Americans rely on but may not recognize on a daily basis.

Abraham Lincoln impersonator Fritz Klein, marches with AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members from across Illinois to mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Abraham Lincoln impersonator Fritz Klein, marches with AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members from across Illinois to mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) · ASSOCIATED PRESS

There are loans for farm storage, grants to ensure safe drinking water, funding to implement pool and spa safety laws, money for suicide prevention for veterans, and grants for AmeriCorps programs. The beneficiaries of this funding run the gamut: farmers, Native tribes, seniors, people with disabilities, those living in rural areas, children, veterans, and victims of mass violence and acts of terror.

There’s even a grant to Florida to reimburse citrus producers for the costs associated with recovering from the 2017 hurricane destruction.

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What’s the federal government good for? Seems like a lot.

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