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News/regulation
A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.
06 May 2021
News/crypto
Latin America's largest cryptocurrency platform, Bitso, has hit a $2.2 billion valuation off the back of a $250 million Series C equity round led by Tiger Global and Coatue.
Goldman Sachs has led a $15 million Series B funding round for crpto financial intelligence player Coin Metrics.
05 May 2021
Deutsche Börse and Commerzbank have invested in fintech spinoff 360X with the aim of building a blockchain-based digital marketplace for digital asset clases in art and real estate.
29 April 2021
Blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos has closed a $300 million Series D round of funding, giving the firm behind the crypto offerings of PayPal a $2.4 billion valuation.
Digital asset custodian Finoa has secured $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital.
News/markets
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued a €100 million two-year bond using public blockchain technology.
News/payments
DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan have set up a joint venture company that will use distributed ledger technology to challenge the cumbersome hub-and-spoke model applied to traditional cross-border payment flow.
28 April 2021
News/sustainable
Having secured £535,000 investment, regtech ALT/AVE plans to further develop its distributed ledger solution docStribute, to expand its core uses beyond financial services.
27 April 2021
News/wholesale
Digital Asset has raised over $120 million in Series D funding to expand its Daml data network, which is used by a host of FS giants to transform disparate data silos into synchronised networks.
21 April 2021
Hashstacs (Stacs), a Singaporean startup using DLT to help financial institutions meet their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) needs, has raised US$3.6 million in pre-Series A funding.
News/retail
Open Bank Project (OBP) has formed a partnership with the API3 Foundation to deliver banking and open banking data oracles to the decentralised web.
19 April 2021
Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak announced today the launch of new fintech taskforce to “coordinate exploratory work on a potential central bank digital currency,” led by the UK Treasury and Bank of England.
JP Morgan is working with a group of Taiwan banks to test the use of blockchain technology to improve global funds transfers.
16 April 2021
Societe Generale has issued the first structured product as a security token directly registered on the Tezos public blockchain.
15 April 2021
The New York Stock Exchange is joining the NFT craze, launching a series of collectibles that commemorate the first time six major companies were traded publicly.
14 April 2021
JP Morgan, Mastercard and UBS have joined a $65 million funding round for blockchain software engineering firm ConsenSys.
13 April 2021
Market participants working on the use of DLT in post-trade processes need to ensure interoperability if the technology is to succeed, according to a European Central Bank report.
The Bank of Russia has set out plans to build a prototype digital ruble by the end of the year.
Citi Innovation Labs has teamed up with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to test the use of blockchain technology and tokenised money to send payments from the US to Latin America and the Caribbean.
09 April 2021
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