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News/wholesale
WeBank has entered a partnership with New York-based Digital Asset, to integrate smart contract technology with the blockchain platform FISCO BCOS.
16 April 2020
Cargill and Agrocorp, in partnership with Rabobank and other logistics partners, have completed a cross-continent commodity trade transaction of wheat from North America to Southeast Asia on a blockchain platform provided by Singapore-based dltledgers.
14 April 2020
News/crypto
Revolut last week announced it is making cryptocurrency available to all its seven million customers, as central banks start injecting unprecedented stimulus into their economies to cushion the damaging effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
09 April 2020
France's central bank is calling for applications from firms interested in experimenting with the use of a digital euro for interbank settlements.
02 April 2020
Johan Javeus, chief strategist at SEB, tells Finextra Research about the tension that could emerge between central banks and commercial banks should the former circulate a digital currency directly to consumers.
30 March 2020
News/payments
Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is set to open up its Ripple-powered consumer cross-border payments mobile app to businesses.
News/markets
The Australian Securities Exchange is to delay the implementation of its long-awaited Chess replacement system due to the uncertainty created by the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic.
25 March 2020
News/retail
Yapeal, a digital banking startup, which became Switzerland’s first fintech banking licensee earlier this month, has spoken to Finextra Research about the task of breaking new ground in a market dominated by giants such as UBS and Credit Suisse.
24 March 2020
Remittance outfit DeeMoney has become the first non-bank institution in Thailand to process live transactions over RippleNet.
20 March 2020
Clearstream, Credit Suisse Asset Management, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and Natixis Investment Managers are to give financial backing to FundsDLT, a blockchain-based technology platform for the investment fund industry.
17 March 2020
The Bank of England is calling for input from industry and the public on the pros and cons of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
12 March 2020
Libra is getting some competition. The Celo Foundation has signed up 50 members to its 'Alliance for Prosperity', an effort to use blockchain technology and digital assets to "enable prosperity for everyone".
11 March 2020
News/Blockchain
Standard Chartered has become the first financial institution to join the TradeLens blockchain-enabled container logisitics platform developed by IBM and Maersk.
ING has invested in securities lending platform HQLAx, which went live in December 2019.
09 March 2020
Crypto-focused exchange software provider AlphaPoint has raised $5.6 million in new funding from unnamed sources.
06 March 2020
News/sustainable
Using blockchain and other technologies to work towards sustainable goals requires companies to break the current way of thinking in business, according to Anthony Day, blockchain partner at IBM.
The US dollar's position as the unrivalled global currency means it has the most at stake should central banks begin to issue their own digital currencies, according to ING economist Carlos Cocuzzo.
05 March 2020
UAE-based National Bank of Fujairah is to provide customers with real-time cross-border funds transfers via the RippleNet network.
04 March 2020
Dubai International Finance Centre and Mashreq Bank are inviting other banks in the region to join a blockchan-based KYC data sharing coalition after running the first live transactions to support licensed businesses and corporates opening digital bank accounts instantly.
03 March 2020
Two defence agencies in Austria and France are joining forces to improve cryptocurrency security and tackle the rising rate of crime in the crypto market.
28 February 2020
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