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News/crypto
Mastercard continues to strengthen its digital asset capabilities, buying cryptocurrency intelligence outfit CipherTrace. Financial terms were not disclosed.
09 September 2021
News/sustainable
A research report by University College London (UCL) has examined the varying environmental impacts of six different distributed ledger technologies (DLT), finding that Hedera Hashgraph boasts the lowest overall energy consumption of the group.
08 September 2021
News/payments
The IOTA non-profit and its distributed ledger technology has been named as one of seven providers selected by the Commission to develop the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (ESBI).
07 September 2021
News/startups
US Bank has taken ownership stakes in two fintech-focussed venture capital firms as it seeks to step up its engagement with the sector.
02 September 2021
News/wholesale
Standard Chartered and Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis have formed a joint venture to build a trade finance origination and distribution platform.
30 August 2021
News/people
Bank of America is boasting a record 227 US patents granted in the first half of the year, with AI and machine learning the area seeing the most action.
25 August 2021
Visa has paid around $150,000 in Ethereum to buy a CryptoPunk non-fungible token as it explores ways to get into the fast-growing NFT game.
24 August 2021
The experience of creating and selling NFTs on OpenSea has three key friction points, argues Peter Ramsey, founder of UX consultancy, Built for Mars, in a new case study.
19 August 2021
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.
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
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.
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.
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