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News/sustainable
The non-profit arm of insurance unicorn Lemonade has formed a coalition building a blockchain-based climate insurance offering for subsistence farmers and livestock keepers in developing markets.
22 March 2022
News/markets
Euroclear 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.
21 March 2022
News/crypto
RegTech firm, Tintra, has just announced the next stage in its development strategy – the launch of the world’s first ever Web 3.0 banking platform.
18 March 2022
The Bank of Canada has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a twelve-month research project on central bank digital currencies.
A not-for-profit cryptocurrency fundraising project is inviting people to stake their crypto to a pool, with the interest accrued used to support humanitarian efforts for Ukrainians affected by the war.
16 March 2022
Microsoft has joined a $450 million funding round for ConsenSys that values the blockchain software engineering firm at $7 billion.
News/predictions
American Express has filed trademark applications to register its name, logo, and slogans for a range of banking services in the metaverse.
Crypto giant FTX and its US subsidiary have chosen Stripe to build an onboarding and identity verification flow for users joining the exchange, and to power payments for people adding funds to their accounts.
11 March 2022
Stander has joined forces with Agrotoken to develop loans for farmers in Argentina that are secured by tokens related to agricultural products.
10 March 2022
Brazil's central bank has picked project proposals from nine firms - including Santander, Visa and Bitcoin Market - for a challenge investigating the development of a CBDC.
04 March 2022
JP Morgan is the latest financial services giant to invest in blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs.
01 March 2022
News/people
JP Morgan's Christine Moy is leaving her role as head of all things blockchain and crypto at the Wall Street giant.
23 February 2022
Wall Street players including BlackRock, Morgan Stanley and State Street are backing a new consortium led by iCapital that will build a distributed ledger-based system for alternative assets.
News/payments
Mitsubishi UFJ has pulled the plug on its blockchain-based online payment network, Global Open Network Japan (GO-NET Japan), citing the "recent hard business environment" for payments.
The FBI is setting up a cryptocurrency-focussed unit that will work closely with another new team at the Justice Department.
18 February 2022
News/security
Researchers from JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and Ciena say they have built a quantum key distribution (QKD) network that can secure blockchain applications against quantum attacks
An ‘eBay for space’, of sorts, Copernic Space has today launched its initial private sale of payload space – essentially enabling suppliers to send a minimum of 100g of physical cargo (such as artworks, or IoT devices) to the moon.
16 February 2022
UBS, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas have joined Project Carbon, a bank-backed initiative to create a blockchain-based marketplace where firms can buy and sell carbon offsets.
Mastercard is expanding its consulting services with new practices dedicated to open banking, open data, crypto and digital currencies, and ESG.
15 February 2022
Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is looking into the issuance of "digitally tracked green bonds" as a way of raising funds for its carbon neutrality ambitions.
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