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News/wholesale
Interbank co-operative Swift has successfully completed its blockchain-based corporate actions pilot, describing it as a "compelling solution".
24 March 2023
News/crypto
UK digital asset custody and trading startup Copper is ditching its enterprise business and making job cuts as it faces up to the crypto sector's market and regulatory woes.
17 March 2023
NAB has completed an intra-bank cross-border transaction using its own minted stablecoin.
15 March 2023
News/startups
Singapore's fintech sector enjoyed a mixed year in 2022, with a record level of activity but a significant drop in the level of funding, according to recently published data.
03 March 2023
Mastercard has teamed up with Web3 outfit Immersve to let people in Australia and New Zealand use cryptocurrency directly from their Web3 wallet to make digital, physical and metaverse purchases wherever Mastercard is accepted.
23 February 2023
A unified programmable ledger could unleash an explosion of innovation in payments and money comparable to the arrival of the smartphone, according to Bank for International Settlements general manager Agustín Carstens.
News/markets
LawtechUK, a government-backed and industry-led group tasked with promoting the use of English law and the UK’s jurisdictions in the context of novel technologies, has determined that the UK legal framework is fit for purpose in relation to the issue of digital securities.
16 February 2023
Blockchain-based deposit tokens, rather than stablecoins, could emerge as the foundation for stable digital money, according to a report from JP Morgan and Oliver Wyman.
10 February 2023
News/sustainable
A group of nine banks has pumped $45 million into Carbonplace, the global DLT-based carbon credit transaction network they founded that is now becoming an independent entity ahead of its planned launch later this year.
09 February 2023
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has priced its first ever £50 million digital bond using a combination of private and public blockchains operated and accessed via HSBC's tokenisation platform, Orion.
01 February 2023
National Australia has become the second of the big four banks to mint its own stablecoin.
19 January 2023
Blockchain software engineering firm ConsenSys is laying off 96 staffers - 11% of its workforce - citing the crypto bear market and wider economic environment.
ABN Amro has become the first bank in Europe to register a digital bond for a Midcorp client on the public blockchain.
16 January 2023
Researchers at Visa have been investigating how to enable automatic recurring payments for self-custodial crypto wallets.
21 December 2022
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is piloting the use of blockchain technology to get digital cash payments to internally displaced people in Ukraine.
20 December 2022
Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.
16 December 2022
Rabobank has executed a series of real-time euro commercial paper transactions in a blockchain pilot the lender says demonstrates the technology's potential to provide borrowers and asset managers with real-time liquidity.
United Fintech, an outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets fintechs, has acquired Cobalt, a provider of risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. Terms were not disclosed.
15 December 2022
The Bank of Italy has selected blockchain technology from Algorand to support a new digital guarantees platform.
14 December 2022
Membrane Finance, a finnish fintech building a European alternative to the USD stablecoin, has been granted an Electronic Money Licence by the country's regulator and picked up €2 million in seed funding.
07 December 2022
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