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News/payments
Blockchain-enabled commercial payments outfit Paystand has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding led by NewView Capital.
23 July 2021
News/crypto
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
News/regulation
HSBC has signed on as the fourth founding member bank of a blockchain-based KYC data sharing coalition in the UAE.
01 July 2021
With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.
29 June 2021
News/cloud
DZ Bank and BayernLB have traded an over-the-counter interest rate derivative in the form of a digital smart derivative contract, with the resulting payments settled daily via Deutsche Börse.
Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.
22 June 2021
Digital asset securities firm Securitize has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital.
21 June 2021
News/markets
UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to run its latest bond offering using a distributed ledger platform developed by Singapore Exchange and Temasek.
16 June 2021
A pair of former PayPal executives has launched a decentralised global payments network to connect banks, merchants and payment providers to transact in digital currencies around the world.
Digital asset management player Ledger has hit a $1.5 billion valuation off the back of a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings.
11 June 2021
News/startups
BondEvalue, a Singapore-based debt trading platform for the masses, has raised $6 million in its Series A round of fund raising, with MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia and Citigroup among the new investors
09 June 2021
A group of 11 banks, including NatWest and Deutsche Bank, have been trialling a DLT-based platform for intraday FX swaps.
03 June 2021
Sweden's central bank has called in Handelsbanken and software firm TietoEvry for the latest stage of its central bank digital currency pilot.
31 May 2021
Fintech outfit Circle has raised $440 million in financing as it seeks to capitalise on the success of the fast-growing USDC stablecoin.
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