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Crédit Agricole has taken a stake in financial blockchain outfit SETL, marking the bank's first equity investment in a third party financial technology company.
01 February 2018
Cambridge Blockchain and IHS Markit have teamed up to bring distributed digital identity technology to the collection and management of know-your-customer information.
31 January 2018
IDT Corporation and MercuryFX have signed up to trial Riple's xRapid real-time liqudity platform to settle retail remittances using virtual currency XRP.
26 January 2018
As the great and the good gather in Davos, Deutsche Bank has joined the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a project dedicated to "maximising the benefits and minimising the risks" of emerging technology.
Having successfully tested the use of blockchain technology in oil trading last year, ABN Amro, ING and SocGen have completed a first agricultural commodity trade using their Easy Trading Connect prototype.
22 January 2018
Four top tier financial institutions are collaborating on the use of distributed ledger technology to revive the market for mortgage-backed securities, the reviled financial instruments which precipitated the global banking crisis in 2008.
18 January 2018
Draper Esprit has led a whopping £56 million Series B investment round in Paris-based cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain security outfit Ledger.
Standard Chartered has created a new business unit, SC Ventures, to invest in promising fintech startups and accelerate innovation initiatives across the group.
17 January 2018
Bank of America has filed for or received more blockchain-related patents in the US than any other firm, beating out Mastercard and IBM for the top spot, according to research from law firm EnvisionIP.
IBM and transport and logistics outfit AP Moller-Maersk are setting up a joint venture that will build a blockchain-based cross-border supply chain programme to manage and track the paper trail of tens of millions of shipping containers across the world.
16 January 2018
Banking cooperative Swift has signed an MoU with seven central securities depositaries (CSDs) to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to improve post-trade processes such as corporate actions, proxy voting and trade processing.
The largest commercial bank in Russia, Alfa Bank, is developing a new digital cash service where all transactions will be transmitted and cleared via the blockchain.
15 January 2018
The craze for cryptocurrency mining is putting increasing strain on electrical grids, raising concerns about capacity around the world and the prospect of a migration of coin mining operators to new jurisdictions.
12 January 2018
Shares in MoneyGram gained on Thursday on news that the old-school money transfer player has teamed up with Ripple to pilot the blockchain startup's XRP digital currency in its payments flows.
11 January 2018
As new technologies such as AI and DLT transform the capital markets landscape, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to hold new fintech entrants to the same standards as established players.
Warren Buffett, arguably the world's most successful and respected investor, has issued a scathing assessment of cryptocurrencies and predicted a "bad ending" for the current bitcoin boom.
SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.
BNP Paribas Asset Management has chalked up another blockchain success, using the technology to carry out a full end-to-end fund transaction test.
10 January 2018
Photo firm Kodak has announced plans to develop its own cryptocurrency, KodakCoin, which it says will help photographers to control their image rights via a distributed ledger.
The explosive surge in the value of Ripple's digital currency XRP is being transmitted to the stock market, with Seagate and Western Union both experiencing a sharp hike in valuations on the back of Ripple-led associations.
09 January 2018
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