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Thai blockchain startup Lightnet raises US$31.2m

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.

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Standard Chartered invests in Chinese supply chain finance platform Linklogis

Standard Chartered has made a strategic investment in Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Rabobank collaborates on blockchain-based app for coffee drinkers with IBM

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.

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Finextra's year in review

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.

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Ripple secures $200 million in new funding

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.

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Japan's SBI Group to invests in Boerse Stuttgart's digital assets business

Japan's SBI Group is to invest in Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange and Digital Ventures subsidiary.

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Spanish banks to test programmable payments for smart contracts

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.

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SIX acquires stake in securities token issuer daura

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.

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ECB tackles anonymity and AML compliance in digital currency issuance

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.

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Swedish central bank taps Accenture for e-krona pilot

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.

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Credit unions pilot blockchain-based digital ID system

Several US credit unions have begun piloting the MyCUID digital identity service from blockchain outfit CULedger.

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Lithuanian central bank urges peers to join digital currency goldrush

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.

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Saga launches global, stabilised digital currency

Saga, a global, democratic, stabilised, non-anonymous digital currency, is launching today in an effort to build towards "worldwide money".

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Morgan Stanley vets launch cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is building a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform.

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CULedger preps blockchain-based cross-border payments

Credit union-owned blockchain outfit CULedger is ready to launch its cross-border payments product, CUPay, next year.

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EU fires Libra warning

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.

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Deutsche Bank predicts cryptocurrency could replace fiat by 2030

Deutsche Bank has published its outlook for the decade ahead, predicting growth in appeal of cryptocurrency given the fragility of fiat money.

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Cryptocurrency firm Gemini hires Starling co-founder Sawyer to lead European expansion

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.

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First transactions executed on Deutsche Bourse's blockchain-based securities lending platform

Commerzbank, Credit Suisse and UBS have successfully executed the first live transactions on Deutsche Börse's HQLAx securities lending platform.

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Figure Technologies aims for $103 million fund raise

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.