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EToro launches crypto exchange

eToroX, the blockchain division of global investment company eToro, has today announced the launch of its crypto exchange - a secure and regulated trading venue offering a range of cryptoassets as well as a suite of stablecoins.

16 April 2019

News/regulation

MUFG joins Series B round in Chainalysis

Cryptocurrency compliance outfit Chainalysis has raised an additional $6M to close its $36M Series B round with an investment from Japan’s largest financial institution, MUFG, as well as Tokyo-headquartered VC Sozo Ventures.

16 April 2019

News/Blockchain

20|30 collaborates with LSE on test issuance of tokenised equity, raises £3m

Blockchain startup 20|30 has raised £3 million by selling tokenized shares and settling them in a test environment on the LSE’s Turquoise platform.

15 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

China Academy of Information and Communications Technology partners with R3

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) has joined enterprise software firm R3 to collaborate with its global legal and regulatory community to share best practices regarding blockchain technology and develop solutions on its Corda blockchain platform.

15 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Blockport tempts retail investors with security token offering

Blockport, the first social crypto exchange, has confirmed that it will launch their Security Token Offering (STO).

11 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Cobalt names fintech investment expert Stephen Wolff as strategic advisor

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has appointed Stephen Wolff as a Strategic Advisor to support its global growth strategy.

11 April 2019

News/Blockchain

TCS blockchain powers cross-border securities settlement between CSDs

The Moroccan and Kuwait central securities depositories have carried out a cross-border securities settlement using stable coins and a blockchain from Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

11 April 2019

Company update/devops

Digital Asset works with Isda on open source reference library

Digital Asset has today announced that it is working with ISDA to develop an open-source reference code library that will help derivatives market participants adopt the ISDA Common Domain Model (CDM). This

10 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

FX blockchain startup 9th Gear emerges from stealth mode

9th Gear Technologies, the only institutional marketplace to enable same day Foreign Exchange (FX) transactions with on-demand payment liquidity, emerged from stealth mode today.

10 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BC Gateways blockchain-enabled data sharing application goes live

Today, financial services has a revolutionary new way to publish and distribute data that will underpin the rapidly increasing industry need for accurate, timely and auditable data delivered in a cost-effective way.

10 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Western Union integrates with blockchain wallet from Coins.ph

Coins.ph, one of the Philippines' leading e-wallet providers, and The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, today announced a collaboration to enable more than five million customers to receive international and domestic money transfers directly into their Coins.ph wallets in the Philippines.

08 April 2019

News/Blockchain

Kleinwort Hambros issues blockchain ETN

Kleinwort Hambros has launched a blockchain note to give investors exposure to companies most likely to benefit from the adoption of distributed ledger technology.

08 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Identitii partners with Trace Financial for Swift ISO20022 overlay

Identitii Limited (Identitii, Company) (ASX: ID8), an Australian FinTech enabling the secure overlay of transaction level detail on top of financial messages using a private blockchain, has partnered with leading message transformation software provider Trace Financial Limited (Trace Financial).

08 April 2019

News/Blockchain

RBS and Barclays trial blockchain tech to slash property transaction times

RBS and Barclays Bank have completed a blockchain trial with R3's distributed ledger software which reduced the time taken to complete a property transaction from three months to less than three weeks.

05 April 2019

News/Blockchain

Digital Asset open sources smart contract language

Distributed ledger technology firm Digital Asset is open sourcing its DAML smart contract language, opening it up to the developer community.

04 April 2019

News/Blockchain

Mortgage blockchain tech startup Acre raises £5m

Acre Software, a UK startup using blockchain technology to revamp the mortgage and insurance application process for advisers, has raised £5 million from Aviva and Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG).

04 April 2019

Company update/devops

Shamir Karkal's blockchain startup Sila moves into open Beta

Sila, the all-inclusive API platform for the development of FinTech and new economy applications, today announced the launch of its open Beta program.

04 April 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BBVA closes blockchain loan with Madrid government

BBVA and Madrid’s government close the first blockchain-powered sustainable “Schuldschein” loan.

04 April 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Faster, transparent and traceable payments

Thierry Chilosi, SWIFT gpi Go-to-Market Lead, speaks about what there is left to do around SWIFT gpi, why SWIFT is making payments confirmations mandatory, how banks will do this and how new services will be developed on the back of tracking these payments.

04 April 2019

News/Blockchain

Big banks back new international blockchain alliance

Barclays, BBVA, Deutsche Boerse and Swift are among the financial services sector names to join a new collective promoting the development of a global framework for the development and adoption of distributed ledger technology.

03 April 2019