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News/markets
Legal experts in the UK have opened a public consultation on the legislative changes required to support the issuance and transfer of digital securities on blockchain and DLT systems.
03 August 2022
News/payments
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will cause disruption to cross-border payment systems and could, in conjunction with technological advances, challenge the dominance of the Swift network, predicts a paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
29 July 2022
News/regulation
Fintechs and crypto asset providers have welcomed the UK government’s decision to bring stablecoins into regulatory scope as part of the recently published Financial Services and Markets Bill.
21 July 2022
News/crypto
BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS) has become the latest asset servicer to promote its push into the digital assets custody sector.
20 July 2022
News/wealth
Global asset manager Schroders has acquired a minority share in Forteus, an asset manager focused on blockchain and digital assets.
19 July 2022
Crypto firm Coinbase has been granted approval by Italy's financial regulator to operate as a crypto assets service provider.
18 July 2022
Atomyze, a Russia-based blockchain firm, has launched what it claims to be the country's first digital token to be backed by palladium.
5ire has raised funding from futuristic technology group SRAM & MRAM to be dubbed the fastest growing blockchain unicorn in India and the only sustainable blockchain unicorn in the world, boasting a valuation of $1.5 billion.
15 July 2022
News/wholesale
The Banque de France is accelerating its wholesale CBDC programme as it bids to be ready to bring in central bank money as a settlement asset as early as 2023.
13 July 2022
News/startups
Santander will host an awards ceremony in the metaverse this week to crown the winners of a global blockchain challenge.
12 July 2022
ING has spun out its institutional-grade digital custody platform Pyctor to market operator GMEX.
11 July 2022
BKN301, a digital payments and Banking-as-a-Service startup, has raised EUR15 million in a Series A funding round led by Abalone Group.
05 July 2022
Fresh from a contract win at Citi, Swiss crypto custody player Metaco has signed its next Tier 1 banking client, Societe Generale.
30 June 2022
Enterprise blockchain firm SETL has been acquired by Turkey-based fintech Colendi.
27 June 2022
France-based Caceis is the latest asset servicing firm to announce plans to develop its custody service for digital assets.
The Bank of Israel has been experimenting with technology that would allow some CBDC payments to be made anonymously.
21 June 2022
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has chosen MonetaGo to build a new network for registering trade finance transactions.
15 June 2022
Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.
14 June 2022
News/cloud
MonetaGo is ditching blockchain for a shift to the cloud after almost a decade of using distributed ledger technology for its trade finance fraud prevention product.
09 June 2022
We.trade, one of the earliest blochcain coalitions for trade finance is entering insolvency after its banking shareholders pulled the plug.
08 June 2022
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