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News/crypto
Private sector-led blockchain-based networks and stablecoins could fix "slow, opaque and inefficient" cross-border payments, says Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon.
12 October 2022
News/payments
JPMorgan Chase and Visa are to establish connectivity between their global private blockchain networks, Liink and B2B Connect.
11 October 2022
The European Commission has put out a tender for a study on "embedded supervision of decentralised finance".
10 October 2022
An estimated $100 million in Binance Coin (also known as BNB token) tokens were stolen during a targeted hack on the BSC Token Hub on Friday.
07 October 2022
The European Banking Authority has put out a call for tender for blockchain analytics services and crypto-assets market data.
05 October 2022
News/regulation
The UK must establish a joined-up strategy across government, regulators and the legal system if it wants to be a global leader in the crypto sector, says an Innovate Finance report.
A group of industry associations has pushed back against a second Basel Committee on Banking Supervision consultation on the rules on investments in crypto assets by financial institutions, calling for a host of changes.
04 October 2022
A Swift-led pilot has successfully implemented a common framework linking tokenisation systems between CSD’s and global custodians
News/markets
Interbank co-operative Swift is working on a pilot project with Chainlink to provide network interoperability across multiple blockchain platforms.
30 September 2022
Nomura has invested in Fnality, the international consortium of global banks focused on building a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenised assets and marketplaces.
26 September 2022
Norway's central bank has made the source code for its CBDC sandbox publicly available and confirmed that the prototype infrastructure for the project is based on Ethereum technology.
16 September 2022
Interbank co-operative Swift is working with Symbiont and seven securities players to trial a blockchain-based corporate actions system.
14 September 2022
News/devops
Bank of America scored a record 341 US patents in the first half of 2022, a 50% year-on-year increase, with information security and AI seeing the most action.
09 September 2022
News/retail
Ant Group's insurance arm has launched a blockchain-based digital operation platform for insurance companies in China.
07 September 2022
KPMG is launching an embedded finance hub in Singapore, providing support to firms looking to make inroads into financial areas such as payments, blockchain and lending.
06 September 2022
Singapore-headquartered cross-border remittance firm Lightnet has secured a $50 million capital commitment from LDA Capital.
30 August 2022
Abu Dhabi has announced the formation of a government body to develop its strategy for regulating and promoting the world of virtual assets.
26 August 2022
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) says its distributed ledger technology-based alternative settlement platform has gone live in a parallel production environment.
22 August 2022
News/wealth
Invesco, a global asset manager with $1.6 trillion of assets under management, has launched an investment fund focused on the metaverse.
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has called in consultants from Accenture to run the rule over its much-delayed blockchain-based post-trade network.
03 August 2022
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