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News/crypto
The Bank of Russia has set out plans to build a prototype digital ruble by the end of the year.
13 April 2021
News/payments
Citi Innovation Labs has teamed up with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to test the use of blockchain technology and tokenised money to send payments from the US to Latin America and the Caribbean.
09 April 2021
Company update/crypto
The solution based on blockchain technology that has been developed and tested by the Riksbank in its e-krona project provides new possibilities, but is also new and needs further investigation.
07 April 2021
Roxe, a next-generation global payment network, today announced that BuyUcoin, a leading digital asset exchange platform, will begin a pilot program as a Roxe payment node for blockchain-based remittance products and services in India.
News/markets
Instinet and Credit Suisse have conducted the first live trades of US-listed equities on a T+0 settlement timeframe using blockchain technology from Paxos.
06 April 2021
The shortest air mile distance between Johannesburg and London is 5,635 miles.
31 March 2021
Company update/markets
TISA Universal Reporting Network (TURN), a blockchain solution for the collection and dissemination of fund related data, is today announcing that it has created and submitted a static fund data template to FinDatEx.
Company update/payments
R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, today announced a partnership with Red Date Tech, a key infrastructure developer of China's Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), to license Corda Enterprise for the development of a permissioned blockchain network in China and a free Corda-based Open Permissioned Chain on BSN China.
30 March 2021
Ripple is to acquire a 40% stake in Asian cross-border payments specialist Trianglo.
News/startups
RioDeFi, a Singapore-based decentralised finance startup, has launched an incubator hub designed to bring greater blockchain interoperability to Asia.
Fintech outfit Circle is bidding to cash in on the NFT craze by launching a platform that helps marketplaces accept credit card and crypto payments for their non-fungible tokens.
Company update/people
Tassat, a global provider of financial technologies and products for digital payments, today announced it has named Jay Agarwal as Managing Director, Payments.
29 March 2021
Peter Großkopf (40), Chief Technical Officer and Member of the Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange GmbH, will leave the company at his own request at the end of March 2021.
All-in-one card fintech Curve is tapping the NFT craze by auctioning five pieces of digital art for charity.
26 March 2021
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com has secured $300 million in a Series C funding round that values the London-based company at $5.2 billion.
If the normalisation of Bitcoin and crypto-at-large is to be achieved, there are fundamental challenges that this ‘non-analogue’ asset will be faced with. During Citi’s Digital Money Symposium, panellists of the ‘Institutional Infrastructure for Crypto’ session explored the obstacles crypto firms have faced while trying to carve out a footing within the institutional ecosystem.
25 March 2021
Company update/wholesale
Singapore-based fintech firm, #dltledgers, has completed a Series A funding round led by Regus and Savoy Capital, Vittal, Walden International and various veteran industry leaders. The Series A funding round closed with a total of USD $7 million.
Germany's central bank says that successful tests of a project to implement a distributed ledger for electronic securities settlement should negate the need for a central bank digital currency.
Company update/cloud
Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure that helps large banks manage digital assets, announced that METACO will leverage confidential computing capabilities through IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services for their digital asset orchestration system.
Finastra today announced the integration of its Fusion Trade Innovation and Enigio’s trace:original to create a solution for managing and handling digital original documents using distributed ledger technology.
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