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News/payments
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was today announced as the newest member of Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council, joining UCL as the second member from the higher education sector.
19 August 2021
News/wholesale
BBVA has inked a deal to integrate cross-border payment and financing services in Ant Group's blockchain platform for global trade, Trusple.
11 August 2021
News/crypto
FalconX, a one-stop-shop for institutional cryptocurrency market participants, has closed a $210 million Series C financing round, valuing the company at $3.75 billion.
10 August 2021
Global investment in fintech bounced back strongly in the first half of 2021, hitting $98 billion with a record number of deals, according to KPMG.
News/startups
CoreChain Technologies, a digital B2B payments network built on blockchain, has raised $1.25 million in pre-seed funding.
04 August 2021
Vienna-based digital investment platform Bitpanda is to open a blockchain research & development hub, employing 30 full-time developers.
03 August 2021
State Street has signed up with crypto enterprise Lukka to provide clients with middle and back office capabilities for digital asset fund administration.
30 July 2021
Blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos has added Bank of America, Coinbase Ventures, Founders Fund and FTX to its recent $300 million Series D funding round.
29 July 2021
A blockchain-based digital euro could in theory support almost unlimited numbers of payments being processed at the same time with a very large money supply and with a smaller carbon footprint than the card payment system, concludes Estonia's central bank following an experiment with the ECB.
28 July 2021
Mastercard is launching a version of its Start Path startup programme specifically for firms in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.
27 July 2021
News/markets
Azimut Investments is set to be first asset manageer to go live on FundsDLT, a blockchain-based technology platform for the investment fund industry.
Sila, an API platform that provides payment infrastructure as a service while ensuring regulatory compliance, has raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Venture.
Blockchain-enabled commercial payments outfit Paystand has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding led by NewView Capital.
23 July 2021
India and Nigeria, two of the world's largest emerging economies, are ramping up their plans to launch central bank digital currencies.
PayU is teaming up with mobile-first open-source blockchain payments outfit Celo to launch a new stablecoin option to hundreds of thousands of merchants.
21 July 2021
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has teamed up with art investment outfit Artemundi to tokenise a Picasso painting, giving investors the chance to purchase and trade shares in the work.
16 July 2021
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Banque de France are hailing the results of a cross-border digital currency simulation that could upend the current correspondent banking model, enabling banks to conduct overseas transactions across a single shared ledger.
13 July 2021
News/sustainable
NatWest, CIBC, ITAU and NAB have joined forces to create a blockchain-based marketplace where firms can buy and sell carbon offsets.
12 July 2021
Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish is set to go public at a $9 billion valuation through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) run by former Nyse president Thomas Farley.
09 July 2021
Ripple has joined a $13 million funding round in Mintable, an NFT marketplace that enables users to create, buy, and sell digital items using fiat or cryptocurrency.
02 July 2021
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