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News/Blockchain
Fidelity Investments is rounding out its digital assets strategy, participating in a $1.9 million funding round for crypto asset market and network data vendor Coin Metrics.
28 February 2019
The London Stock Exchange has led a $20 million seed round in blockchain startup Nivaura.
27 February 2019
Commerzbank has teamed up with Continental and Siemens to carry out a EUR100,000 test commercial paper transaction using blockchain technology.
22 February 2019
Liechtenstein's Bank Frick has set up a subsidiary, DLT Markets, to provide institutional investors with professional access to the multi-exchange trading of digital assets.
21 February 2019
BBVA has negotiated the terms of a EUR35 million structured green bond using an in-house developed blockchain platform.
19 February 2019
In another hint of its intentions in the payments space, Facebook has been advertising for a 'Technical Program Manager, Marketplace Payments Blockchain'.
15 February 2019
News/startups
Rabobank is pumping another EUR80 million into its venture fund investing in early-stage fintech and agritech companies.
JPMorgan Chase has created a digital token, the JPM Coin, that will be used to instantly settle transactions between the bank's wholesale payments business clients, according to CNBC.
14 February 2019
News/retail
IBM continues to rack up the financial services contract wins, scoring a huge $700 million global deal with Banco Santander, as well as agreements with ICBC Argentina and the card unit of Hyundai and Kia Motors.
13 February 2019
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is moving into the 'pre-production phase' for its blockchain-based interbank reconciliation project.
Mitsubishi UFJ has formed a joint venture with Akamai for the roll out of a new blockchain-based online payment network.
Fidelity is in the market for a senior blockchain software engineer to join its soon-to-launch Digital Assets unit.
Barclays, the Mastercard Foundation and Ripple have joined in a $1.7 million funding round for overseas remittance startup SendFriend.
12 February 2019
Standard Chartered has struck an agreement with Linklogis to use the Chinese B2B player's blockchain-enabled supply chain platform to improve business financing opportunities and deepen client relationships in China.
Financial services panelists at London Blockchain Week anticipate that the deployment of distributed ledgers in trading markets will follow a similar cautious path to that of cloud computing, as big banks tread carefully around the regulatory and policy implications of the technology.
At this year’s London Blockchain Week, the event opened with a summary of how the perception of bitcoin, and its underlying technology blockchain, has changed over the past five years.
11 February 2019
Financial inclusion and security will be one of the challenges at what is being billed as the world's largest blockchain and AI hackathon, taking place in the Netherlands this April.
08 February 2019
Italian payments outfit SIA has teamed up with the Municipality of Bari to use blockchain technology to digitise the process of managing surety policies.
07 February 2019
The Swiss stock exchange says it wants to kick off digital asset trading with its own Security Token Offering when its new blockchain-based trading system goes live later this year.
Facebook has reignited speculation about its plans in the payments space by aqui-hiring the team behind London-based blockchain startup Chainspace.
05 February 2019
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