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Tora-backed Cyberian enters digital asset arena

Cyberian, the new institutional crypto off exchange liquidity venue, today announced its launch of the world’s first trustless venue for trading blocks of digital assets.

11 November 2019

News/Blockchain

MAS blockchain payment project moves into fifth phase

The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it has engaged with more than 40 financial and non-financial firms to determine the commercial viability and value of its blockchain-based prototype for multi-currency payments.

11 November 2019

News/Blockchain

Bitcoin Suisse and Worldline ink partnership for wider crypto use

Cryptocurrency financial services firm, Bitcoin Suisse, is teaming up with payments company, Wordline, to facilitate crypto use at the point of sale.

08 November 2019

News/Blockchain

MUFG leads security token consortium

Japanese financial services giant MUFG is leading a new Security Token (ST) Research Consortium, working on infrastructure that enables automatic securities and fund settlement via blockchain technology.

08 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Standard Chartered Joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Standard Chartered today announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

07 November 2019

Company update/payments

RippleNet surpasses 300 customers

Today, we are thrilled to announce that we have surpassed 300 customers.

07 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

AAX digital asset exchange goes live on LSE Millennium platform

LSEG Technology, London Stock Exchange Group’s technology solutions provider, today announces that Millennium Exchange has successfully been deployed as part of the go-live of the AAX digital asset exchange.

07 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Blockchain bank appoints interim CMO

November sees the appointment of David Taylor as Interim CMO at BABB (Bank Account Based Blockchain) - an aspiring blockchain-based regulated bank, situated at Level39 in London’s Canary Wharf.

07 November 2019

News/Blockchain

DBS and Trafigura partner on blockchain trade platform

Singapore's DB Bank is teaming up with commodities trading house Trafigura to develop an open-sourced blockchain trade platform.

06 November 2019

Company update/regulation

Hong Kong sets out new regulatory framework for virtual asset trading platforms

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today issued a position paper setting out a new regulatory framework for virtual asset trading platforms (Note 1).

06 November 2019

News/Blockchain

OneCoin scam renews calls for crypto regulation

The trial of crypto scam OneCoin's lawyer has renewed calls for robust regulation of cryptocurrency to address weaknesses of "human failure and human criminality".

06 November 2019

Finextra TV/crypto

Fiat Currency 2.0: Counter argument to the Cryptocurrency narrative

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citi, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about the practical problems that still need addressing in the crypto-currency community, how Fiat Currency 2.0 will help fix payments as a counter balance to crypto and what challenges still exist around tokenisation and coins. We ask how this impacts the big techs and what regulatory, political and ethical concerns need to be addressed first before they achieve their own currencies.

05 November 2019

News/Blockchain

Ripple accused of making false claims about Swift error rates

Ripple has been taken to task for erroneously claiming that six percent of all financial transactions sent over the Swift network fail and require human intervention.

05 November 2019

Company update/security

Fundament Securities partners Dacs on custody offering for digital securities

Fundament Securities, announces a strategic partnership with DACS “Digital Asset Custody Solution” a digital asset lifecycle management business.

04 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

MoonX releases trading technology platform in the UK

MoonX today announced the launch of its new trading technology in the UK, offering a full suite of financial software and hardware systems for exchanges, brokerages, hedge funds, financial institutions and traders.

04 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BondEvalue to test blockchain-based fractional bond trading platform in MAS sandbox

Singapore-based BondEvalue today announced that it has been approved to enter the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Sandbox Express to launch a blockchain-based bond exchange.

04 November 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Blockchain post-trade processing firm Vakt picks Lisbon for development centre

Vakt, the company re-imagining commodity post-trade processing underpinned by blockchain, has officially selected its Lisbon office as the company’s development centre, following enthusiastic industry reaction to the platform and rapidly expanding headcounts.

31 October 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Accenture, SAP and R3 build currency token prototype for connecting RTGS to Corda blockchain

Accenture (NYSE: ACN), SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and R3 are collaborating and co-innovating to build a real-time gross settlement system that will enable faster, more efficient, reliable and secure payments between banks and customers.

31 October 2019

News/Blockchain

German banks call for digital euro

The Association of German Private Banks has presented a position paper advocating the establishment of a European digital currency and a common identity standard across the Eurozone.

31 October 2019

Company update/Blockchain

TZero to tokenise $640 million of real estate projects across the UK

tZERO, the global leader in blockchain innovation for capital markets, announced today that it has partnered with Alliance Investments, a UK-based direct-to-developer real estate investment company, to provide technology services to tokenize Alliance Investments’ River Plaza, a 180-unit luxury residential development that is located in Manchester, UK.

30 October 2019