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News/Blockchain
Lightnet, a Bangkok-based startup using blockchain technology to shake up the Asian remittance market, has raised US$31.2 million in a funding round led by regional heavyweight United Overseas Bank.
10 January 2020
Standard Chartered has made a strategic investment in Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rabobank has collaborated with IBM on the development of an application allowing consumers to support the farmers who grow the beans that make their cups of coffee.
07 January 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.
23 December 2019
Payments disruptor Ripple has scored $200 million in Series C financing, in a round led by Tetragon with participation from SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures.
20 December 2019
Japan's SBI Group is to invest in Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange and Digital Ventures subsidiary.
Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank have initiated a proof-of-concept test to deploy an interbank Smart Payments Platform that would enable the execution of payments in blockchain networks.
SIX has acquired a stake in token securities issuer daura as it prepares for the live launch next year of its digital asset exchange SDX.
18 December 2019
New research from the European Central Bank shows that it is possible to build a simplified payment system for central bank digital currencies, while safeguarding users’ privacy for low-value transactions and ensuring that higher-value transfers are subject to anti-money laundering checks.
17 December 2019
News/crypto
Sweden's central bank is set to sign a deal with Accenture to develop a digital currency, dubbed the e-krona, in a test environment.
13 December 2019
Several US credit unions have begun piloting the MyCUID digital identity service from blockchain outfit CULedger.
The Bank of Lithuania is stepping up its research into the implications of offering a central bank digital currency, publishing a new research paper highlighting CBDC design choices as well as monetary policy and financial stability implications.
10 December 2019
Saga, a global, democratic, stabilised, non-anonymous digital currency, is launching today in an effort to build towards "worldwide money".
A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is building a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform.
06 December 2019
Credit union-owned blockchain outfit CULedger is ready to launch its cross-border payments product, CUPay, next year.
In the latest shot across the bow of Facebook's Libra project, European authorities are warning that no global stablecoin systems will be allowed to operate in the EU until legal, regulatory and oversight issues have been addressed.
Deutsche Bank has published its outlook for the decade ahead, predicting growth in appeal of cryptocurrency given the fragility of fiat money.
Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange set up by the Winklevoss twins, has hired Starling Bank co-founder Julian Sawyer to spearhead a move into the European market.
04 December 2019
Commerzbank, Credit Suisse and UBS have successfully executed the first live transactions on Deutsche Börse's HQLAx securities lending platform.
03 December 2019
Figure Technologies, a San Francisco-based blockchain-based startup for providing loans against mortgage equity is close to raising $103 million in financing in a bid to enter the student loan market.
02 December 2019
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