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Eastern Caribbean Central Bank partners Bitt for digital currency pilot

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and the Barbados-based fintech company, Bitt Inc. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct a FinTech pilot on blockchain technology in the ECCB member countries.

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IMF's Christine Lagarde calls for crackdown on crypto criminals

The same reason crypto-assets like Bitcoin are so appealing is also what makes them dangerous.

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SEI and Synechron join forces for blockchain utilisation

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced its strategic partnership with Synechron, a global consulting and technology organization, to support SEI’s efforts to employ blockchain technology in the financial services industry through use cases and the establishment of SEI’s Blockchain Center of Excellence.

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Sweden's VIA SMS to offer loans against crypto holdings

Observing the blockchain boom and growing interest from investors’ over the past few months, an alternative financial services provider VIA SMS Group has developed a solution to support Bitcoin investors with an extra asset liquidity.

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Coinsilium purchases own shares in mixture of cash and cryptocurrency

Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN), the blockchain venture builder, advisor and investor that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is pleased to announce that on 7 March 2018, the Company completed the purchase of 2,000,000 of its own shares at a price of 9p per share.

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Coinbase names Nyse vet Eric Scro VP, finance

Today I am pleased to announce that Eric Scro is joining Coinbase as Vice President of Finance. Eric joins us from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), where he spent the last 8.5 years, most recently as the Head of Finance.

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Medici Ventures increases stake in blockchain-based payments firm Bitt

Medici Ventures, announces the exercise of an option to purchase additional ownership interest in Bitt.com, the Caribbean’s blockchain-based digital payment provider.

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SEI and Synechron partner for blockchain utilisation

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced its strategic partnership with Synechron, a global consulting and technology organization, to support SEI’s efforts to employ blockchain technology in the financial services industry through use cases and the establishment of SEI’s Blockchain Center of Excellence.

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Axoni unveils programming language for smart contracts

Axoni is pleased to announce AxLang, a new programming language that supports functional programming and enables formal verification of smart contracts for Ethereum-compatible networks.

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Vaultbank Exchange launches in beta

Vaultbank, the next-generation suite of financial solutions, today announced the beta launch of the Vaultbank Exchange, the first decentralized exchange to allow trading of security tokens.

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Nasdaq and Extraordinary Re sign blockchain and market technology agreement

Nasdaq Inc.(Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Extraordinary Re signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture.

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Circle acquires Poloniex

We’re proud to announce that Circle has extended its commitment to a new vision for global finance by acquiring Poloniex, a leading token exchange platform.

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Government of Montserrat looks to digital currency to boost financial inclusion

The Honourable Premier and Minister of Finance of Montserrat, Donaldson Romeo, has signed on behalf of the Government of Montserrat, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Barbados based financial technology company Bitt Inc., to create a Digital Payments Ecosystem in Montserrat.

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Benelux organisation sign blockchain collaboration MoU

Three organizations - B-Hive, the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) and the Dutch Blockchain Coalition - today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will allow them to leverage their significant collaboration potential for mutual benefit around the topic of distributed ledger technology, otherwise known as blockchain, and allows them to recognize each other’s contribution towards this collaboration.

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Atos partnes with blockchain startup Zonafide

Zonafide, the mobile app leveraging blockchain and collaboration technology to ensure Activities are secure and legitimate, today announces a partnership with Atos to help combat identity theft and cybercrime.

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SEC suspends trading in three companies claiming crypto connection

The Securities and Exchange Commission today suspended trading in three companies amid questions surrounding similar statements they made about the acquisition of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology-related assets.

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Open APIs, digital onboarding and DLT feature in Russian central bank fintech plan

Bank of Russia approves Guidelines for Financial Technologies Development for 2018-2020.

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Finma publishes ICO guidelines

In guidelines published today, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA sets out how it intends to apply financial market legislation in handling enquiries from ICO organisers.

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FC Bari becomes first Italian club to join blockchain-based London Football Exchange

FC Bari 1908 has agreed (subject to contract) to become the first Italian club to join the London Football Exchange (LFE) in order to access the LFE Fan Experience platform by trading football equity on the blockchain and giving thousands of ordinary fans a level of access that they have never seen before.

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RiskMS joins Spanish blockchain consortium Alastria

RiskMS, tech company specialized in compliance and the first Spanish RegTech, has joined the Alastria consortium with the aim of collaborating with a semipublic Blockchain network that permits to develop products and services based on blockchain technology and according to the current regulations.