Blockchain

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Regtech kompany raises €6 million

Business verification and KYC regtech kompany has raised almost €6 million in a funding round led by Fairway Global Investment together with Global Brain.

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BofE picks Accenture for RTGS rebuild

Accenture has won a deal with the Bank of England to help build the UK's new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service.

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Malaysian exchange trials blockchain bond platform

Bursa Malaysia is developing a proof-of-concept (POC) for a blockchain-based bond trading venue.

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Israeli stock exchange preps blockchain-based securities lending platform

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (Tase) is gearing up to launch a blockchain-based securities lending platform.

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Coordinating ESG solution ideation for investment and asset management

In June 2020, Finextra Research welcomed industry experts to Sustainable Finance Live, the first virtual interactive workshop to discuss how financial services firms and technology companies can achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

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Eftpos Payments Australia to test stablecoin for micropayments

Eftpos Payments Australia is collaborating with distributed ledger company Hedera Hashgraph on a project to test the feasibility of a digital Australian dollar stablecoin for micropayments.

/markets

Standard Chartered invests in post-trade FX platform Cobalt

Standard Chartered has invested in foreign exchange (FX) post-trade infrastructure provider Cobalt, joining Citi as the second client-side backer of the blockchain-based network.

/retail

Ant Group creates new blockchain-based technology unit

Chinese giant Ant Group has unveiled AntChain, a new technology brand for the financial firm's blockchain platform that also aggregates other digital technologies including AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and secure computation.

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SMBC joins Contour and Komgo as Covid-19 propels digital trade

Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Corporation SMBC is stepping up its involvement in blockchain-based trade finance networks, joining Singapore-based Contour and Swiss platform Komgo.

/crypto

PayPal confirms crypto interest

In a letter to the European Commission, PayPal has confirmed its long-suspected interest in cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology.

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Spanish banks complete tests of programmable payments for smart contracts

Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank have successfully completed a proof-of-concept test to enable the execution of payments triggered by smart contracts in blockchain networks.

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Digital asset infrastructure firm Metaco raises $17m

Swiss digital asset infrastructure startup Metaco has raised $17 million in a series A funding round led by Giesecke+Devrient and joined by Standard Chartered Bank and Zürcher Kantonalbank.

/markets

R3 chief Rutter assembles team to build corporate bond trading platform

David Rutter, founder of LiquidityEdge and R3, is looking to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the corporate bond market with a new trading platform, LedgerEdge.

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MAS ready for live deployment of DLT-led payments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is looking ahead to live deployment of blockchain technology for multi-currency payments after successfully completing a fifth and final phase of testing with JPMorgan and Temasek.

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UNICEF turning to cryptocurrency in fight against Covid-19

Global children’s charity UNICEF is looking to greatly expand its use of cryptocurrency as it aims to respond to the demands of donors and better support companies around the world in their fight against the effects of Covid-19.

/regulation

Tisa selects Atos for MiFID II blockchain utility for asset management industry

Tisa, the UK’s cross-industry financial services membership body, has called in Atos to build a European MiFID II blockchain utility for the asset management industry.

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Digital asset security outfit Curv raises $23 million

Institutional-grade blockchain security app Curv has raised raised $23M in Series A funding with investment from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Team8 and Digital Garage Lab Fund.

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More maturity needed from AI, DLT and IoT to power sustainable finance data

The executive director of Green Digital Finance Alliance, a partnership between Ant Financial and the UN Environment Programme, has told Finextra Research about the mixed picture in being able to harness new technology to collect and tap into the data required to drive investment for sustainable goals.

/markets

ASX to delay Chess replacement system by a year

The Australia Securities Exchange is to delay the roll out of its post-trade blockchain platform by a year, citing the global Covid pandemic and operational load on market participants.

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Nasdaq unveils Marketplace Services Platform

Nasdaq has launched Marketplace Services Platform, making it easy to exchange assets, services and information across market ecosystems.