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Blockchain-based commercial payments firm Paystand raises $50m

Blockchain-enabled commercial payments outfit Paystand has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding led by NewView Capital.

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India and Nigeria push ahead with CBDC plans

India and Nigeria, two of the world's largest emerging economies, are ramping up their plans to launch central bank digital currencies.

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PayU partners Celo to bring stablecoin payments to merchants

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.

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Sygnum uses blockchain to sell shares in Picasso painting

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.

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Singapore and French central banks test cross-border CBDC exchange

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.

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Banks launch carbon marketplace

NatWest, CIBC, ITAU and NAB have joined forces to create a blockchain-based marketplace where firms can buy and sell carbon offsets.

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Crypto exchange Bullish to go public via $9bn Spac

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.

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Ripple invests in NFT marketplace Mintable

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.

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HSBC joins UAE KYC Blockchain platform

HSBC has signed on as the fourth founding member bank of a blockchain-based KYC data sharing coalition in the UAE.

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EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

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.

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German banks use digital smart contract to trade OTC interest rate derivative

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.

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Visa and PayPal back $300m Blockchain Capital fund

Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.

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Morgan Stanley co-leads $48m funding round for blockchain player Securitize

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.

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UOB to pilot digital bond offering on Marketnode

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.

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PayPal vets launch decentralised cross-border payment network

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.

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Crypto firm Ledger hits $1.5bn valuation

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.

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Citi invests in fractional fixed income platform BondEvalue

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

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Banks test DLT-based platform for intraday FX swaps

A group of 11 banks, including NatWest and Deutsche Bank, have been trialling a DLT-based platform for intraday FX swaps.

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Riksbank enlists Handelsbanken for e-krona pilot

Sweden's central bank has called in Handelsbanken and software firm TietoEvry for the latest stage of its central bank digital currency pilot.

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Circle raises $440m

Fintech outfit Circle has raised $440 million in financing as it seeks to capitalise on the success of the fast-growing USDC stablecoin.