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News/wholesale
Enterprise blockchain firm SETL has been acquired by Turkey-based fintech Colendi.
27 June 2022
News/crypto
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
News/markets
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
Digital asset exchange Binance has closed a $500 million venture fund for investing in Web3 and blockchain technology projects, with support from institutional investors.
01 June 2022
The Monetary Authority of Singapore is collaborating with JPMorgan, DBS Bank and Marketnode to explore the use of digital assets in tokenization and DeFi.
31 May 2022
SBI has invested in Digital Asset with the aim of creating a joint venture company in Japan for programmable money.
News/sustainable
BNP paribas is to provide a sustainability-linked revolving credit line to Ant Group, verifying the Chinese company's green credentials via a blockchain-based carbon management platform.
16 May 2022
David Marcus, the man who led Meta's frustrated Novi and Diem projects, has re-emerged with a Bitcoin startup focused on the Lighting Network.
12 May 2022
Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has secured a $8.6 billion valuation thanks to a $170 million Series F funding round led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, GIC.
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has confirmed a further delay to the cutover of its blockchain-based post-trade network, which was initially set for go-live in April 2021.
11 May 2022
Carbonplace, the bank-backed DLT-based carbon credit settlement platform, has successfully carried out a pilot transfer with payments giant Visa.
10 May 2022
News/retail
Instagram will start testing digital collectables this week, enabling creators and collectors to display their non-fungible tokens on their profiles.
09 May 2022
NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit that oversees the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, has partnered with the local Kenyan blockchain community, Sankore, to launch a regional hub.
Gavin Newsom, California state governor, has signed an executive order which aims to create a transparent regulatory and business environment for Web 3.0 companies which harmonises federal and California state approaches.
06 May 2022
News/regulation
Cryptocurrency firms should use blockchain analytics tools to guard against financial risks and suspicious activities, a senior New York State regulator has said.
02 May 2022
News/payments
Colombia-based fintech Minka, a provider of last-mile APIs and shared ledgers for national payment networks, has secured $24 million in capital through a funding round led by Tiger Global and Kaszek.
29 April 2022
News/startups
Banco Santander and Oxentia Foundation are inviting startups and scaleups from 11 countries to compete in a blockchain challenge and the chance to win cash prizes.
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