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News/payments
Banking users of SIA's private blockchain infrastructure will be able to link up with other distributed ledgers following successful testing of interoperability via Quant Network's Overledger technology.
24 June 2020
Thai fintech startup Synqa (formerly called Omise) has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round led by SCB 10X and Sparx Group.
22 June 2020
News/crypto
The Bank of Thailand is building a prototype of a payment system for businesses using Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
18 June 2020
Fincy, a multi-currency money management app that launched in Cambodia last year, has received an $11 million capital injection from parent company GBCI to expand its network across South East Asia.
12 June 2020
Olaf Ransome, industry solutions adviser for Fnality, has shed light on the feasibility of wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), saying that the requirements of launching one are not within central banks’ specialisms.
News/wholesale
Commerzbank and İşbank have run an international trade finance transaction on the Marco Polo blockchain network.
08 June 2020
News/regulation
A US federal banking regulator has called for public feedback on the use of cryptocurrencies ahead of what could be a change in the rules on digital banking.
05 June 2020
Swiss crypto bank Seba has sought to address the potential skills gap in emerging technology by launching a blockchain-themed university education course.
Japan's three biggest banks are investigating the creation of a digital currency settlement infrastructure.
Accenture and the Digital Dollar Foundation have published a whitepaper laying out proposals for the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the US.
04 June 2020
News/markets
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has been recruited to serve on an advisory panel of technology experts designed to build support for blockchain technology over the next five years.
03 June 2020
Coinbase has announced it is to start offering staking rewards to its customers in the UK and certain EU countries, which could offer around 5% interest on the Tezos they hold in their wallet.
28 May 2020
Samsung is integrating its blockchain wallet with the Winklevoss twins' Gemini app for buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
France's competition authority has launched a public consultation into the fintech sector, with a focus on payment services.
News/cloud
Wealthtech provider FNZ has struck a deal with FinSwitch to provide a new blockchain-enabled administration utility for the South African fund management industry.
22 May 2020
Standard Bank says it is talking to regulators in multiple markets about amending regulations during the Covid19 crisis to make digital trade easier.
21 May 2020
IBM has taken a seven percent stake in we.trade, a blockchain-based trade finance network owned by 12 banks.
Just as there is expectation of the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in China, Sweden, the UK and elsewhere in the years to come, a digital euro is also thought to be on the cards.
The Banque de France and Societe Generale have tested the use of a blockchain platform to settle a transaction with a central bank digital currency.
20 May 2020
Austria's Raiffeisen Bank is to pilot the use of digital currency for money transfers and custody with corporate and institutional clients after a successful proof-of-concept with British-Polish fintech BIllon.
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