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News/crypto
Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.
26 January 2021
Singapore Exchange and Government-owned investment firm Temasek are to establish a digital asset joint venture focused on capital markets workflows through smart contracts, ledger and tokenisation technologies.
22 January 2021
2021 will see further clarity offered on the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) but deployment is still some way off, according to Ville Sointu, head of emerging technology at Nordea.
21 January 2021
News/inclusion
Ripple has signed a deal with Malaysia's Mobile Money and Bangladesh's bKash to power a wallet-to-wallet remittance corridor between the two countries.
15 January 2021
News/wholesale
Securities lending platform HQLAx has closed a €14.4m investment round led by BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Securities Services and Citigroup, and with participation from longtime strategic partner Deutsche Börse Group.
11 January 2021
News/startups
Biconomy, a startup that helps blockchain developers provide a simplified onboading and transaction experience for Web3 projects, has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Eden Block and joined by Fenbushi Capital, Binance and DACM.
VTB has become the first bank in Russia to issue a digital bank guarantee for commercial operation using the Masterchain blockchain platform.
17 December 2020
News/markets
JPMorgan has completed a live, blockchain-based intraday repo transaction using an in-house developed application which supported instantaneous settlement and maturity of the transaction in hours, as opposed to days.
14 December 2020
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has tokenised its own shares, laying the foundation for a future public offering, which includes a potential dual listing across Switzerland and Singapore in partnership with SIX Digital Exchange (SDX).
BBVA's Swiss unit is preparing to launch a service for the trading and custody of digital assets, beginning with bitcoin.
11 December 2020
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures shared the virtual stage with Jillian Manus, managing partner of Structure Capital at Singapore Fintech Week 2020 for an optimistic outlook on all that is possible with technology.
09 December 2020
Mexico-based cryptocurrency platform Bitso is looking to conquer Latin America after securing $62 million in a Series B funding round led by Kaszek Ventures and QED Investors.
David Marcus, the head of Facebook Financial, believes that the social media company has earned the benefit of the doubt for the way it has developed engaged with the concerns of regulators and governments in the development of the Libra project.
07 December 2020
News/retail
A blockchain proof of concept for the digital issuance of retail bonds in the Philippines has been successfully completed by Standard Chartered.
The Swiss National Bank (SNB), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and SIX have carried out a proof-of-concept experiment that integrates tokenised digital assets and central bank money.
03 December 2020
In anticipation of the official launch, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) invited industry participants to join an examination into the results of the Global Covid-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment Study, compiled in partnership with the World Bank and World Economic Forum.
01 December 2020
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has launched an 'end-to-end' tokenization trading market, unlocking access to funding for SMEs and enabling fractional trading in high-value assets as diverse as works of art, diamonds and vintage cars.
26 November 2020
The level playing field of payment services could be undermined by the widespread use of stablecoin network, according to Maria Teresa Chimienti, market infrastructure expert at the the European Central Bank.
25 November 2020
As Venezuela's presidential crisis drags on, one of the men claiming the title, Juan Guaidó, has called in cryptocurrency outfit Circle to help deliver aid to the country's medical workers via a stablecoin.
Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has joined the unicorn club thanks to a $100 million Series C funding round led by Addition.
23 November 2020
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