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News/payments
Germany's central bank says that successful tests of a project to implement a distributed ledger for electronic securities settlement should negate the need for a central bank digital currency.
25 March 2021
News/wealth
Wealth management platform FNZ has begun the roll out of ChainClear, its blockchain-based fund trading and settlement system, to the South African funds market.
DBS is the first Asian bank to successfully close a trade financing transaction on Ant Group's blockchain platform Trusple.
15 March 2021
News/sustainable
Diem, a London startup that combines traditional banking functionality with a service that lets customers sell their unwanted items to the firm, has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round led by Fasanara Capital.
News/crypto
A Bank of Thailand project to explore the use of a central bank backed digital currency and distributed ledger technology in B2B invoice payments found commercial benefits to users but limitation in supporting large transactions volumes and preserving privacy.
12 March 2021
Registered New Zealand financial services provider Techemynt has launched the first stablecoin pegged to the country's dollar.
10 March 2021
As it faces up to litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ripple says its partnership with MoneyGram is over.
09 March 2021
News/regulation
The EU's top regulator has questioned the use of blockchain technology in the creation of a European Single Access Point (Esap) for company financial and sustainable investment information.
03 March 2021
News/cloud
HSBC has become the first bank to start using R3's Corda enterprise blockchain network on Google Cloud.
26 February 2021
News/people
Blockchain settlement and payment infrastructure provider SETL has hired former Ripple executive Marjan Delatinne to lead its payments business.
25 February 2021
VersaBank says it will launch its own deposit-based digital currency pegged to the Canadian dollar.
24 February 2021
News/markets
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation is close to completing work on a prototytpe settlement system based on distributed ledger technology, which could act as the precursor to a US move to a T+1 settlement cycle.
The central banks of China and the United Arab Emirates are joining their counterparts in Thailand and Hong Kong on a CBDC project investigating cross-border foreign currency payments.
23 February 2021
MoneyGram has suspended trading on Ripple's platform over concerns about the latter's litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
22 February 2021
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has scored an eight-figure dollar investment from a unit of Japanese financial behemoth SBI Holdings.
18 February 2021
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com has raised $120 million in funding from a host of macro investors, including Google Ventures.
News/wholesale
Nordic bank SEB has teamed up with Finnish industrial group Wärtsilä on a secure data sharing experiment involving the exchange of digital Letters of Credit.
Sweden's central bank has extended its e-krona pilot project by another year but says it has still not decided whether it will eventually issue the digital currency.
17 February 2021
News/retail
The European Commission has appointed Worldline to lead the 'TruBlo' project, aimed at using blockchain technology to ensure the exchange of reliable content on social networks and in the media.
16 February 2021
Japanese credit card scheme JCB is collaborating with Singapore's Keychain to develop a a secure infrastructure for processing credit-based micropayments between IoT devices.
12 February 2021
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