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In a world first, Switzerland's stock exchange plans to build a fully integrated, DLT-based end-to-end trading, settlement and custody service for digital assets.
06 July 2018
As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.
03 July 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority's regulatory sandbox continues to gather momentum, with 29 firms - including some working with crypto-assets - getting the go-ahead to join the initiative's fourth cohort.
The we.trade blockchain for trade finance platform established by a coalition of nine banks is gaining momentum, conducting seven live trade transactions by ten companies via four partner banks.
The Government of Bermuda is to amend the Banking Act to create a new class of bank specifically to cater to local fintech and blockchain companies.
More than three dozen firms - including BNP Paribas, China Merchants Bank and Deutsche Bank - have carried out a global trial of a know your customer (KYC) application built on R3's Corda blockchain platform.
28 June 2018
Japanese messaging app Line is to establish its own cryptocurrency exchange in an effort to keep pace with popular rivals WeChat and WhatsApp by expanding further into financial services.
Germany's solarisBank is setting up a 'Blockchain Factory' to offer banking services to companies whose business is directly or indirectly based on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
Ripple has strengthened its position in the critical market of India by signing up Kotak Mahindra Bank to its network for cross-border payments.
Central bank digital currencies could pave the way for a more stable financial system, suggests a report prepared for the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
26 June 2018
Having failed to buy MoneyGram, Ant Financial is looking to pound it into the ground with the launch of a home-grown blockchain-based cross-border remittance service.
25 June 2018
BBVA is doubling down on its digital transformation programme, merging two units to create an engineering company that will be home to 1200 tech staffers working on everything from cloud computing to AI to blockchain.
22 June 2018
TradeIX, the startup behind a blockchain-based platform for open-account trade finance, has raised $16 million in a funding round led by ING Ventures and joined by BNP Paribas.
21 June 2018
A consortium of Spanish banks is moving ahead with the development of a blockchain-based digital identity platform slated for live testing before the end of the year.
20 June 2018
The Central Bank of Brazil has established a permissioned ledger for the sharing of data with other national supervisory authorities.
Canadian debit network Interac has opened an innovation outpost and accelerator at Communitech, a tech hub based in the city of Kitchener, Ontario.
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage from the Linedata Exchange Europe 2018. The theme for this year's event centres around transformation and how digital, operational and industry-wide transformation can be leveraged to deliver growth.
19 June 2018
In a scathing take-down of cryptocurrencies, the Bank for International Settlements says the replacement of retail payments by virtual money would break the Internet and lead to an environmental catastrophe.
18 June 2018
A lack of scalability and privacy issues are preventing banks from using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to process cross-border payments, says a senior executive at one of the most prominent startups in the DLT space.
14 June 2018
Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.
13 June 2018
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