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BNP Paribas Securities Services is expanding its blockchain platform for private stocks to help unlisted companies issue minibonds via crowdfunding platforms.
19 September 2016
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) and IBM are teaming up to use blockchain technologies for the design, management and execution of contracts among business partners.
16 September 2016
Barclays Bank has signed contracts with six fintech startups participating in its accelerator programme in New York.
Ripple has won a ringing endorsement for its approach to using distributed ledger technologies to transform the cross-border payment business, scooping $55 million in funding and adding fve new banks to its network.
15 September 2016
Local custodians can tackle structural costs - and improve customer experience - through outsourced proxy services, finds a new paper from Finextra.
The Canadian arm of KPMG is looking to cash in on the blockchain goldrush through the launch of a suite of services designed to help banks realise the potential of distributed ledger technology.
ABN Amro, IBM, Holland FinTech and Linux Foundation are to run the first-ever Hyperledger hackathon, inviting coders to develop new financial applications capable of running on distributed ledgers.
12 September 2016
BNP Paribas has opened a 5000 square foot 'Innovation Zone' on the 30th floor of its Manhattan HQ, where it is inviting employees to come and re-imagine the bank.
09 September 2016
The rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology could have a profound impact on the card market, hurting acquirers and issuer banks but ultimately benefiting Visa and MasterCard, according to experts from Santander.
Thomson Reuters is partnering with Ethereum, Imperial College of London, UCL, and tech partners Oraclize, Crypto Compare and Ethcore to host a weekend-long blockchain hackathon in Canary Wharf, London.
08 September 2016
Barclays Bank and accelerator graduate Wave have executed a live Letter of Credit transaction between Ornua - the Irish Dairy Board - and Sychelles Trading Company on a distributed ledger based system.
07 September 2016
The rapidly expanding R3 distributed ledger consortium has added its first exchange, in the shape of Brazilian giant BM&FBovespa.
06 September 2016
The World Federation of Exchanges is calling for the creation of regulatory sandboxes for distributed ledger technology, to help industry efforts to explore and understand the impact of blockchain-based services in the capital markets.
05 September 2016
In an effort to prove that blockchain technology is not just the preserve of big ticket banking associations, US credit unions have formed a collaborative venture to explore the application of distributed ledgers for member-owned financial cooperatives.
Visa Europe is looking for banking partners to participate in a pilot project exploring the application of blockchain technology in domestic and cross-border funds transfers.
01 September 2016
The R3 blockchain consortium is moving in to the rapidly growing insurtech arena, welcoming MetLife as its first multinational insurance industry member.
31 August 2016
Morgan Stanley's Caitlin Long is the latest high-flying Wall Street executive to trade places for a position at a blockchain startup, joining Symbiont as president and chairman.
Japan Exchange Group is talking up the transformational potential of the use of distributed ledgers in capital markets after analysing the results of proof of concept trials with member firms over the course of the past year.
30 August 2016
More than 84% of trading venues and clearing counterparties surveyed by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) are either investigating or actively pursuing the applicability of distributed ledger technologies in financial markets.
25 August 2016
The bank-backed R3 CEV blockchain consortium has filed its first patent application, shedding light on Corda, the software that will be central to its shared ledger project, which could begin rolling out within months.
24 August 2016
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