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Binance hires former regulators from FCA and Finra to beef up compliance

Binance, the world’s leading crypto and blockchain infrastructure provider, today announced the hiring of Steven McWhirter and Seth Levy, former regulators from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) respectively.

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BIS paper on CBDCs in emerging market economies

In recent years, emerging market economy (EME) central banks have increasingly engaged in projects related to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

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Blockchain technology enterprise OwlTing bolsters AML defenses with Napier

Napier, provider of leading anti-financial crime compliance solutions, announced that OwlTing Group, a blockchain technology enterprise, is the latest to leverage Napier’s AI-enhanced technology solutions to develop an effective financial crime compliance system, which improves its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) defenses and meets relevant regulatory requirements.

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Centre makes c-suite hires

Centre – the consortium founded by Circle Internet Financial, LLC and Coinbase Global, Inc. to serve as a network governing and standard setting body for blockchain-based financial services – has announced new appointments to its growing team.

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RociFi raises $2.7m

RociFi, a decentralized zero and under-collateralized lending protocol, has announced completing a seed funding round of $2.7 million USD (closed in November 2021) from Arrington, Goldentree, Nexo, LD Capital and Skynet Trading.

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Whitehall Capital puts private debt exposures on blockchain

Whitehall Capital is offering an innovative approach to holding investments within its specialist bridge financing fund, Whitehall Capital Management Limited.

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ADDX launches private market services for wealth managers

Wealth managers can now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments through a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices can also take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios through private market products.

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CoinSmart invests in cross-bridge NFT marketplace Curate

CoinSmart Financial Inc. (NEO: SMRT) (FSE: IIR) (“CoinSmart” or the “Company”) one of Canada’s leading crypto asset trading platforms, today announced its strategic investment in NFT cross-bridge marketplace, Curate.

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Polygon and Credix work with Centre on decentralised identity protocol

Centre – the consortium founded by Circle Internet Financial, LLC and Coinbase to serve as a network governing and standard setting body for blockchain-based financial services – has added Polygon, the leading full-stack scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain, and Credix, the institutional private credit marketplace on Solana to its list of partners collaborating on its decentralized identity solution, Verite.

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TRM LAbs names Chris Janczewski head, global investigations

TRM Labs, the leading provider of cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML) and investigations software, announced today that former IRS-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) Special Agent Chris Janczewski has joined TRM as Head of Global Investigations, bringing extraordinary investigative expertise to the next generation blockchain intelligence company.

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Bolero and TradeLens join forces to accelerate electronic bill of lading adoption

Bolero International, the leading provider of cloud-based trade finance digitisation solutions, announced today a collaboration with TradeLens, the blockchain-based global trade platform for containerized goods, with the goal of delivering a seamless digital experience for customers using electronic bills of lading in trade finance transactions.

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Linklogis joins the Trade Information Network

Linklogis, a leading supply chain finance technology solutions provider, has commenced an ongoing collaboration with Trade Information Network (‘Network’) by joining as a financier on the Network.

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Blockchain.com acquires OTC trading and executions business of Singapore-based Altonomy

I’m pleased to share that we’ve acquired the OTC trading and executions business of Singapore-based Altonomy to accelerate the growth of our institutional business.

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Ripple commits one billion XRP to XRPL developer programmes

Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, is committing 1B XRP to accelerate development and new use cases on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).

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Apex Group acquires majority stake in Fund Admin Chain

Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex” or “The Group”), a global financial services provider, announces today the expansion of its Digital Assets capabilities with the acquisition of a majority stake in Fund Admin Chain (“FAC”), a distributed ledger-based network for launching, distributing, trading and settling collective investment funds.

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Wells Fargo innovation head Ronn Baker joins Baton Systems as North American sales lead

Baton Systems (“Baton”), the global fintech digitally transforming post-trade processing using distributed ledger technology (DLT), has announced the appointment of Ronn Baker as Senior Director of North American Sales.

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Stellar Development Foundation and MoneyGram partner Techstars

The Stellar Development Foundation and MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI) today announced a new partnership with Techstars, a global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship, and customized programming for entrepreneurs.

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Singapore approves Paxos for digital payments token services

Paxos, the leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, announced it has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a premier financial regulator in Asia-Pacific, to operate digital payments token services under the Payment Services Act 2019.

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Calastone and Microsoft from DLT/Cloud pact

Calastone, the largest global funds network, has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft, which will see the firms collaborate on the use of cloud and distributed ledger technology to create market efficiency across the global investment funds industry.