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News/crypto
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
News/markets
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
News/payments
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
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.
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
BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS) has become the latest asset servicer to promote its push into the digital assets custody sector.
20 July 2022
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
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