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Cecabank sets up Spanish blockchain consortium

A new Spanish blockchain consortium spearheaded by Cecabank and professional services firm Grant Thornton is building tools designed to combat money laundering and boost KYC efforts.

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Bank of Canada says DLT not ready for interbank payment system

Following a year-long experiment, the Bank of Canada says that distributed ledger technology is not ready to act as the backbone of a wholesale interbank payment system.

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Digital payments to drive social justice

The power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion and social justice emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Payments Canada Summit in Toronto.

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R3 raises $107m

In the largest funding round in the history of distributed ledger technology, the R3 consortium has raised $107 million from around half of its members as well as Intel and Temasek Holdings.

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JPMorgan taps Zcash privacy feature for blockchain platform

JPMorgan is to use technology from the company behind the Zcash digital currency to add a new layer of privacy protection to users of its enterprise-grade Quorum blockchain platform.

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Citi and Nasdaq run blockchain-based settlement for private securities

Citi is providing financial resolution for secondary market transactions conducted over Nasdaq's Linq Platform, using distributed ledger technology from Chain to address the challenges of liquidity in private securities by streamlining payment transactions between multiple parties.

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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance triples in size

Corporate support for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is gathering momentum, with 86 new companies adding their weight to the initiative to promote the uptake of Ethereum as the foundation for running smart contracts in Fortune 500 enterprises

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Santiago Exchange signs for IBM blockchain tech

Chile's Santiago Exchange has enlisted IBM to help it build what is being billed as the world's first securities lending blockchain platform.

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China central bank sets up fintech committee

The People's Bank of China has set up a committee that will investigate the impact of fintech on monetary policy and financial markets as well as how big data and AI can be used for regulatory oversight.

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EBAday 2017: Towards full payments digitalisation

A host of board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the twelfth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Dublin between the 20th and 21st June.

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Citi invests in DLT startup Axoni

Citi has become the latest Wall Street giant to join a Series A funding round for Axoni, bringing the total amount raised by the distributed ledger technology outfit to over $20 million.

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Cobalt attracts new launch partners to post-trade currency network

Citadel Securities and XTX Markets have signed up as launch partners for the live implementation of Cobalt's FX post-trade processing network, a DLT-based platform founded by currency trading veterans Andy Coyne and Adrian Patten.

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Delaware legislates for corporate record-keeping by distributed ledger

The state of Delaware is proposing amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping purposes and to keep track of stock transactions.

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Bank of England to take over running of Chaps as RTGS make-over comes onstream

The Bank of England is to take over the direct running of the UK's Chaps high value payment system as part of a blueprint for a rebuild of its real-time gross settlement platform to accommodate new market entrants and a future-proofed interface to distributed ledger technology.

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Swift Business Forum, Nordics - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum in Stockholm. This event will explore how banks can think in new and innovative ways as different business models impact the majority of existing banking revenues.

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Credit union consortium to demo digital identities on distributed ledger network

A US consortium exploring potential use cases for distributed ledger technology in the credit union industry is set to conduct its first live demonstration of a digital identity service next week.

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Québec watchdog opens fintech lab and joins R3

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), Québec's financial services regulator, has joined the R3 consortium and set up a fintech lab to help it study new technologies, such as blockchain.

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Emirates NBD integrates blockchain tech into cheques

Emirates NBD is embarking on a pilot that will see it use blockchain technology to boost the security of its cheques.

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JPMorgan formally quits R3

JPMorgan Chase has formally exited blockchain consortium R3, following in the footsteps of fellow titans Goldman Sachs and Banco Santander who split last November.

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Mizuho to go live with DLT-based trade finance application

Mizuho Bank is preparing to conduct its first live trade financing transactions over a distributed ledger developed in association with IBM.