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Santander strikes $700m IBM deal to support biz transformation programme

IBM continues to rack up the financial services contract wins, scoring a huge $700 million global deal with Banco Santander, as well as agreements with ICBC Argentina and the card unit of Hyundai and Kia Motors.

13 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

SDK.finance integrates with Oracle blockchain platform

SDK.finance is using Oracle Blockchain Platform to help the company transform the rapidly evolving payments industry.

13 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

UAE Exchange and Unimoni go live on RippleNet

Finablr, a global platform for Payments and Foreign Exchange solutions, today announced that its network brands UAE Exchange and Unimoni are now on RippleNet.

13 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Italian banks move into pre-production for DLT-based reconciliation project

The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is moving into the 'pre-production phase' for its blockchain-based interbank reconciliation project.

13 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

VAKT appoints Etienne Amic as new CEO

VAKT, the company re-imagining commodity post-trade processing underpinned by blockchain, today announces the appointment of Etienne Amic as its new CEO.

13 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Akamai and MUFG to roll out blockchain-based payment network in 2020

Mitsubishi UFJ has formed a joint venture with Akamai for the roll out of a new blockchain-based online payment network.

13 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Fidelity seeks blockchain engineer for Digital Assets launch

Fidelity is in the market for a senior blockchain software engineer to join its soon-to-launch Digital Assets unit.

13 February 2019

Company update/regulation

Cryptocurrency complaince outfit Chanalyis raises $30 million

Chainalysis, the leading provider of cryptocurrency compliance and investigation solutions, has secured a $30M Series B financing led by Accel.

12 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Barclays, Ripple and Mastercard Foundation join SendFriend financing round

Barclays, the Mastercard Foundation and Ripple have joined in a $1.7 million funding round for overseas remittance startup SendFriend.

12 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Standard Chartered signs MoU with Chinese supply chain finance platform

Standard Chartered has struck an agreement with Linklogis to use the Chinese B2B player's blockchain-enabled supply chain platform to improve business financing opportunities and deepen client relationships in China.

12 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Blockchain will follow the same adoption path as cloud computing

Financial services panelists at London Blockchain Week anticipate that the deployment of distributed ledgers in trading markets will follow a similar cautious path to that of cloud computing, as big banks tread carefully around the regulatory and policy implications of the technology.

12 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies will be regulated in 2019 because of FOMO in 2018

At this year’s London Blockchain Week, the event opened with a summary of how the perception of bitcoin, and its underlying technology blockchain, has changed over the past five years.

11 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

LC Lite launches to replace Letters of Credit with smart contracts

LC LITE is the first blockchain-based platform connecting trade parties directly via a digital solution for cross-border trade transactions requiring Letters of Credit.

11 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

SPiCE VC invests in digital securities exchange Archax

SPiCE VC, the world’s first fully tokenised venture capital fund, today announced its latest strategic investment, taking a stake in Archax – the forthcoming institutional digital securities exchange based in London.

11 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

TD Bank: Treasury professionals anticipate benefits from blockchain

Treasury and finance professionals anticipate more operational challenges in 2019 than in previous years, according to a recent survey conducted by TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, at the 2018 Association for Financial Professionals Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

08 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Financial inclusion takes stage at massive blockchain hackathon

Financial inclusion and security will be one of the challenges at what is being billed as the world's largest blockchain and AI hackathon, taking place in the Netherlands this April.

08 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Ripple adds 10 universities to blockchain research initiative

Ripple has expanded the group of partners within its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). This global initiative, which launched in June 2018, now supports 29 schools to further accelerate academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.

07 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Italian city partners SIA on sureties blockchain project

Italian payments outfit SIA has teamed up with the Municipality of Bari to use blockchain technology to digitise the process of managing surety policies.

07 February 2019

News/Blockchain

Swiss stock exchange plans to raise capital on new digital asset system

The Swiss stock exchange says it wants to kick off digital asset trading with its own Security Token Offering when its new blockchain-based trading system goes live later this year.

07 February 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Banco Best and Credit Suisse fund transactions using blockchain-based infrastructure FundsDLT

Banco Best and Credit Suisse Asset Management successfully processed live end-to-end fund transactions, using FundsDLT, a blockchain-based decentralized platform for fund transaction processing.

07 February 2019