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News/Blockchain
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has budgeted over EUR1 million to keep abreast of trends in financial innovation and crypto asstes over the course of the next year.
05 October 2018
MoneyTap, a DLT-based payment app developed by SBI and Ripple has gone live in Japan.
04 October 2018
US electronic payments association Nacha has acquired the Business Payments Directory Association (BPDA) as it seeks to advance the development and deployment of a B2B payments and remittance directory.
03 October 2018
News/devops
Simple co-founder Shamir Karkal has taken the wraps off his latest project: Sila, a startup offering fintech firms a suite of APIs and developer tools supported by a dollar-pegged stablecoin.
02 October 2018
Blockchain network builder ConsenSys has invested $6.5 million in DrumG Technologies, a startup co-founded by the former CEO of R3 Lab and research centre Tim Grant to create business product overlays on exiting distributed ledger applications.
The we.trade blockchain for trade finance initiative established by a coalition of nine banks is joining forces with three former Batavia consortium banks, extending the platform's reach to 13 European countries.
Blockchain-based cross border business payments startup Veem has raised $25 million in a strategic funding round led by Goldman Sachs and joined by Google Ventures.
27 September 2018
SBI Ripple Asia has cleared a regulatory hurdle in its bid to launch a DLT-based payments app in Japan.
Cryptocurrency firm Circle has unveiled a stablecoin designed to make it easy to convert US dollars into tokens that can then be moved over public blockchains.
26 September 2018
A federal science agency in Australia has claimed a world first after completing testing on a global blockchain network that is capable of processing 30,000 cross-border transactions per second.
An interbank blockchain project led by JPMorgan designed to speed up the exceptions process has recruited more than 70 banks in a move that would make it one of the largest application of distributed ledger technology (DLT) by regulated banks.
25 September 2018
The Irish government has continued its bid to develop the country as a European fintech hub with the launch of a five year, €5m fintech research and development project.
21 September 2018
Poland-based PKO Bank Polski has completed work on what it claims is the biggest client-facing blockchain implementation globally.
20 September 2018
Some of the world's biggest banks, including Citi, MUFG and Societe Generale, have joined forces on a venture bidding to digitalise the trade and commodities finance sector through a blockchain-based open platform.
19 September 2018
The UK government should take action to regulate the "Wild West" crypto-assets market, says a group of senior MPs, arguing that with proportionate oversight the country could become a global centre for the fast-growing sector.
New York state has filed a lawsuit against the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over a decision to allow fintech companies to apply for national banking charters.
17 September 2018
A former engineer with Elon Musk's aerospace manufacturer SpaceX has launched what he claims is a public digital currency exchange with tools and services expected of an institutional standard.
Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank has signed up with RippleNet, opening up remittance payment corridors between the Kingdom and US and Asian markets.
14 September 2018
Blockchain rivals Ripple and R3 have settled a legal dispute, which saw both firms trade blows over technology contracts and joint venture agreements.
11 September 2018
Blockchain startup Paxos has secured approval from New York regulators to launch a US dollar-pegged stablecoin
10 September 2018
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