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Securrency raises $30m

Securrency, Inc., a leading developer of institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology, has announced that it has raised USD $30 million in its Series B funding round, with participation by WisdomTree Investments, Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners Limited (ADCP), State Street, and U.S. Bank, among other investors.

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Blockchain outfit Paxos scores provisional trust charter

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced preliminary conditional approval of the application to charter Paxos National Trust, New York.

/startups

ZTLment joins Danish FSA regulatory sandbox

ZTLment, a fintech company enabling cross-border trade between SMEs via programmable money, announces that it joins the regulatory sandbox of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Danish FSA) as the first company in 2021.

/wholesale

DBS Bank and Contour broaden digital trade offerings to four new markets in Asia-Pacific

To further push the digitalisation of trade finance in major trade hubs in the region, DBS Bank has expanded its offerings on Contour’s rapidly growing trade finance network to corporate customers in four key markets in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).

/wholesale

R3 Development Fund invests first $10 million in over 20 start-ups

Global enterprise software firm R3’s Development Fund has reached the milestone of USD 10 million in capital deployed across over 30 investments in more than 20 of the most promising early-stage blockchain and confidential computing companies.

/Blockchain

Blockchain-based savings community app crowned in Finastra’s Hack to the Future

Finastra has announced the winner of its recent hackathon - Hack to the Future 3.

/crypto

Circle picks Signature Bank for USDC integration

Circle, a global financial technology firm that provides payments and treasury infrastructure for digital businesses announced today that Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), a New York-based, full service commercial bank, will become their leading financial institution to hold billions of dollars in reserve deposits related to USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing digital dollar in the world.

/retail

Bankhaus von der Heydt fuels blockchain and crypto business growth with Appian

Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced that Bankhaus von der Heydt is using Appian to automate back-office operations and grow its banking business through new FinTech offerings.

/wholesale

Emirates NBD's E20. partners with MoniMove to support supply chain management for SMEs

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region, is partnering with award winning fintech platform MoniMove to complement the bank's E20. digital business bank initiative that aims to empower entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs and other businesses in the UAE.

/crypto

Shinhan Bank joins Hedera Governing Council

Shinhan Bank (KRX: 055550), the leading bank in South Korea, has joined the Hedera Governing Council, the body that oversees distributed governance of the Hedera network.

/wholesale

VTB to set up blockchain centre of excellence

VTB Bank, together with other members of the Russian Fintech Association, has become the founder of a blockchain operator that will develop distributed ledger technology in Russia.

/crypto

E-krona needs further investigation - Riksbank

The solution based on blockchain technology that has been developed and tested by the Riksbank in its e-krona project provides new possibilities, but is also new and needs further investigation.

/crypto

BuyUcoin pilots Roxe payment node in India

Roxe, a next-generation global payment network, today announced that BuyUcoin, a leading digital asset exchange platform, will begin a pilot program as a Roxe payment node for blockchain-based remittance products and services in India.

/crypto

Mercury to use Ripple ODL to speed up remitances between Johannesburgh and London

The shortest air mile distance between Johannesburg and London is 5,635 miles.

/markets

Turn submits static fund data template to FinDatEx

TISA Universal Reporting Network (TURN), a blockchain solution for the collection and dissemination of fund related data, is today announcing that it has created and submitted a static fund data template to FinDatEx.

/payments

R3 Corda Enterprise available on China's Blockchain-based Service Network

R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, today announced a partnership with Red Date Tech, a key infrastructure developer of China's Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), to license Corda Enterprise for the development of a permissioned blockchain network in China and a free Corda-based Open Permissioned Chain on BSN China.

/people

Tassat names former Citi SVP Jay Agarwal MD, payments

Tassat, a global provider of financial technologies and products for digital payments, today announced it has named Jay Agarwal as Managing Director, Payments.

/people

Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange CTO Peter Großkopf quits

Peter Großkopf (40), Chief Technical Officer and Member of the Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange GmbH, will leave the company at his own request at the end of March 2021.

/wholesale

Singapore's #dtledgers raises $7 million; pivots to R3 Corda

Singapore-based fintech firm, #dltledgers, has completed a Series A funding round led by Regus and Savoy Capital, Vittal, Walden International and various veteran industry leaders. The Series A funding round closed with a total of USD $7 million.

/cloud

Metaco turns to IBM Cloud to secure digital asset platform

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure that helps large banks manage digital assets, announced that METACO will leverage confidential computing capabilities through IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services for their digital asset orchestration system.

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