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News/payments
NextGen Nordics will return on 25th April 2023 to Stockholm, Sweden and the timing of this event could not be better placed.
23 November 2022
News/markets
Blockchain outfit Quant is teaming up with UST to push the adoption of institutional digital assets by offering technical integration and tokenisation services to central and commercial banks and capital markets participants.
22 November 2022
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is pulling the plug on its much-delayed blockchain-based post-trade network, writing off about A$250 million.
18 November 2022
News/crypto
Digital asset bank Sygnum has tokenized an iconic Four Marilyns painting by Andy Warhol, enabling investors to stake a claim to co-onwership under the Swiss DLT legal framework.
Some of the biggest names in the US banking industry are coming together on a proof of concept for a regulated digital asset settlement platform.
16 November 2022
Wall Street giant JP Morgan is opening a payments innovation lab in Athens as part of a wider Greek expansion.
14 November 2022
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are teaming up to explore the use of wholesale CBDCs for cross-border payments.
11 November 2022
News/security
Goldman Sachs, PayPal, American Express and Citi have joined in a $70 million funding round in blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs.
10 November 2022
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has developed a wholesale CBDC prototype for an experiment on cross-border digital currency transactions supported by blockchain technology.
09 November 2022
UBS has launched a CHF375 million digital bond that is publicly traded and settled on both traditional and blockchain-based exchanges.
US-based Gate.io, one of the largest crypto exchanges in operation, is set to branch out into the payments sector.
07 November 2022
News/wholesale
The majority of market participants expect the settlement cycle for equities to shorten to T+1 within the next five years, according to recently published research.
04 November 2022
The Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) is stepping up its work on cross-border foreign exchange settlement using wholesale central bank digital currency.
Standard Chartered has invested in Partior, the DLT venture set up last year by DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan to challenge the cumbersome hub-and-spoke model applied to traditional cross-border payment flow.
03 November 2022
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) do not pose a threat to cryptocurrencies and would actually help build trust among sceptics by validating the underlying blockchain technology.
Visa has filed two trademark applications related to the metaverse, non-fungible tokens and digital currency wallets.
01 November 2022
News/startups
Funding for Portuguese fintechs has exceeded the €1bn mark for the first time.
28 October 2022
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks have completed a successful pilot of the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by commercial banks for foreign exchange transactions across borders, as part of Project mBridge.
26 October 2022
News/people
JPMorgan Chase has appointed a former executive at bankrupt crypto lender Celsius as its head of digital assets regulatory policy.
20 October 2022
JP Morgan is celebrating the success of its blockchain application Confirm this week, following announcements that Deutsche Bank and Visa have been brought on board as key partners.
12 October 2022
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