Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Facebook gets big backers for GlobalCoin project

Facebook has reportedly landed Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Uber as founder members of its forthcoming stablecoin ecosystem.

14 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Ripple launches in Brazil

Ripple is looking to expand its footprint in Latin America, launching operations in Brazil and bringing in former American Express and Banco Bradesco exective Luiz Antonio Sacco as managing director.

12 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Visa launches DLT-based cross-border payments platform

Visa has officially launched B2B Connect, its distributed ledger-based, non-card platform for high-value corporate, cross-border payments.

11 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: CCAF’s Michel Rauchs

Following his panel on the ethics and governance of cryptocurrency, Finextra spoke to Michel Rauchs, cryptocurrency & blockchain lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), about the use cases for DLT and the maturity of the cryptoasset market, addressing concerns around risk in addition to whether virtual currency could become a sustainable asset class.

10 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Blockchain benefits limited for retail banks - report

A report from management consultant McKinsey suggests that retail banks have been slower to adopt blockchain technology because they face more challenges in reaping the potential benefits.

07 June 2019

News/ai

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: The interplay of AI, cloud, blockchain and quantum computing

On the final day of Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Jesse McWaters, financial innovation lead at the World Economic Forum starts the day discussing the interplay of AI, cloud, blockchain and quantum computing, and what happens when it all collides.

05 June 2019

News/Blockchain

UK fintech growth programme invites applications

The UK government-backed Tech Nation is inviting applications for the second cohort of its fintech growth programme, which promises to give members intensive backing to help grow their businesses and the country's financial technology ecosystem.

05 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Big banks create Utility Settlement Coin company

Some of the world's biggest financial services firms - including Barclays, Nasdaq and UBS - have pumped £50 million into a new venture building a Utility Settlement Coin (USC), an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on distributed ledger technology.

03 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: World Economic Forum’s Ashley Lannquist

Ashley Lannquist, project lead, blockchain & distributed ledger technology at World Economic Forum, will be taking to the stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam to discuss the industry consortia for blockchain innovation on Tuesday this week. Ahead of the session, Finextra spoke to Lannquist about any use cases that have been beneficial for the financial services, the WEF’s work with the technology and how to take an inclusive approach.

03 June 2019

News/Blockchain

Blockchain gets a bashing from Deutsche Bundesbank president

Digital currencies, and their foundational blockchain backbone, have come in for a kicking from the president of Germany's central bank, who has characterized the former as a serious threat to the stability of the financial system, and the latter as no better than current technological solutions

31 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Irish banks pilot blockchain for professional credentials

AIB, Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank are piloting a blockchain platform to track and manage employee education and regulatory qualifications.

30 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Will you be able to make trades directly from your mind in 2069?

What will trading technology look like in 50 years? Trades powered directly by thoughts, hardware that inhibits the influence of negative emotions, and mobile-phone based 3D trading rooms could all be in our future, predicts a report.

30 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Innovation driving digital acceleration in Latin America

Swift's Latin American Regional Conference (LARC) explored how banks in the region are looking to increase digitisation, while managing cyber and compliance challenges.

29 May 2019

News/startups

Barclays invests in blockchain-based invoice exchange startup Crowdz

Barclays has led a $5.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz, the Silicon-Valley startup behind a global, blockchain-based invoice exchange vowing to revolutionise the $9 trillion receivables market

29 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Rabobank abandons cryptocurrency wallet plans

Rabobank has ditched plans to launch a cryptocurrency wallet, citing, among other issues, the regulatory environment.

24 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Facebook to launch cryptocurrency in 2020

Facebook is finalising a digital payments system called ‘GlobalCoin’, which is expected to be available across 12 countries by the start of 2020.

24 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

News/Blockchain

CULedger taps R3 for blockchain-based cross-border payments

Credit union-owned blockchain outfit CULedger has picked R3's Corda platform as the basis of its upcoming cross-border payments product.

22 May 2019

News/regulation

ECB paper warns of regulatory arbitrage on crypto-assets

While crypto-assets do not currently pose a threat to the euro area's financial stability, a disjointed approach at the national level could trigger regulatory arbitrage and hamper the resilience of the region's financial system, says an ECB paper.

17 May 2019

News/Blockchain

ABN Amro to launch blockchain and IoT platform for trade inventories

ABN Amro is looking to launch a blockchain platform for the commodities industry that uses the Internet of Things to communicate directly with physical trade inventories.

17 May 2019