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Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance.
21 May 2018
Mitsubishi UFJ intends to roll out a new payments platform for micropayments and Internet of Things applications using a blockchain network from Akamai.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is working with Accenture to build a distributed ledger technology-based securities lending platform.
18 May 2018
Not content with general doom mongering on the perils of investing in Initial Coin Offerings, the Securities and Exchange Commission has gone one step further, creating its own mock ICO website that touts an all too good to be true investment opportunity.
17 May 2018
Santander and Broadridge, in collaboration with JPMorgan and Northern Trust as custodian banks, have completed a test run of blockchain for investor voting at the Spanish bank's annual general meeting (AGM).
Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard believes special-purpose digital tokens for wholesale payments and some aspects of distributed ledger technology may hold promise for strengthening traditional financial instruments and markets.
16 May 2018
Sberbank and telco MTS have implemented the first Russian issue of commercial bonds via smart contracts utilising a blockchain platform developed by National Settlement Depository.
Former JPMorgan blockchain leads Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen have launched a new blockchain company, Clovyr, with the aim of creating a hybrid environment for sharing and playing around with enterprise-grade application development tools and datasets
15 May 2018
Japanese merchant bank Nomura has set up a new venture to provide safekeeping and custody services for cryptocurrency-denominated assets managed by institutional investors.
The largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish Credit Office, is teaming up with local DLT specialist Billon to move millions of credit histories to the blockchain.
14 May 2018
Ripple is looking to build up an ecosystem around its native digital asset through the launch an initiative called Xpring, which will invest in, incubate, acquire and provide grants to startups using XRP and the XRP Ledger.
HSBC and ING bank have announced the successful execution of a trade finance transaction using R3's Corda blockchain platform.
Using distributed ledger technology for instantaneous clearing and settlement of securities is "feasible", Canada's central bank and biggest exchange operator have concluded in the wake of a proof-of-concept test.
11 May 2018
The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.
Ripple is claiming promising results from the first pilot trials by remittance platforms of its digital asset XRP as a medium of exchange.
10 May 2018
Former PayPal president and Coinbase board member David Marcus is to head up a new blockchain unit at Facebook.
09 May 2018
A newly-appointed SEC commissioner has taken a swipe at the global trend for establishing fintech sandboxes, arguing that they place regulators and the regulated too close together, and instead calling for a more hands off, beach lifeguard-style approach to oversight.
08 May 2018
Central bank cryptocurrencies are a bad idea but central bank electronic money could have big benefits, improving financial stability, simplifying monetary policy and reducing the reliance on cash, say researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
JPMorgan has filed a patent for the application of blockchain technology to speed up the process of cross-border payments.
04 May 2018
Standard Chartered is to extend its use of the Ripple network for cross-border payments to five more pairs of countries over the coming year.
02 May 2018
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