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News/crypto
US-based Gate.io, one of the largest crypto exchanges in operation, is set to branch out into the payments sector.
07 November 2022
News/wholesale
The majority of market participants expect the settlement cycle for equities to shorten to T+1 within the next five years, according to recently published research.
04 November 2022
News/payments
The Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) is stepping up its work on cross-border foreign exchange settlement using wholesale central bank digital currency.
Standard Chartered has invested in Partior, the DLT venture set up last year by DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan to challenge the cumbersome hub-and-spoke model applied to traditional cross-border payment flow.
03 November 2022
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) do not pose a threat to cryptocurrencies and would actually help build trust among sceptics by validating the underlying blockchain technology.
Visa has filed two trademark applications related to the metaverse, non-fungible tokens and digital currency wallets.
01 November 2022
News/startups
Funding for Portuguese fintechs has exceeded the €1bn mark for the first time.
28 October 2022
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks have completed a successful pilot of the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by commercial banks for foreign exchange transactions across borders, as part of Project mBridge.
26 October 2022
News/people
JPMorgan Chase has appointed a former executive at bankrupt crypto lender Celsius as its head of digital assets regulatory policy.
20 October 2022
JP Morgan is celebrating the success of its blockchain application Confirm this week, following announcements that Deutsche Bank and Visa have been brought on board as key partners.
12 October 2022
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.
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
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