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News/markets
Adopting distributed ledger technology in the pursuit of faster settlement times could hit liquidity and increase transaction costs, warns research from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
23 May 2024
News/startups
Mastercard has welcomed five new firms to its Start Path startup programme specifically for firms in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.
17 May 2024
News/sustainable
Mastercard has teamed up with Standard Chartered on a proof-of-concept pilot exploring tokenised deposits and tokenised carbon credits.
16 May 2024
News/payments
Standard Chartered is the first Euro settlement bank to go live on Partior, the global unified ledger market infrastructure, integrating blockchain innovation directly into the bank’s payment systems
News/crypto
JP Morgan has struck a deal to offer its JPM Coin digital token as a settlement mechanism for Broadridge's DLR (Distributed Ledger Repo) platform.
14 May 2024
The Eurosystem has begun the first of a series of trials to test the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money.
Israeli startup Kima is running a project with Mastercard's FinSec Innovation Lab to connect decentralised finance (DeFi) applications with fiat systems.
A host of major US financial services firms - including Citi, JP Morgan, and Visa - are taking part in a Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) proof-of-concept that will explore multi-asset settlement using shared ledger technology.
09 May 2024
News/wealth
Emirates NBD's digital offshoot Liv is working with B2B alternative asset solutions provider Ctrl Alt to explore the tokenisation of real-world assets.
08 May 2024
Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have used AI to detect money laundering on the Bitcoin blockchain.
02 May 2024
A group of former Revolut staffers have raised $6.5 million for hybrid cryptocurrency exchange X10.
30 April 2024
News/wholesale
Ripple is joining forces with SBI Group and HashKey DX to bring XRPL-powered supply chain finance to Japan.
Visa has teamed up with blockchain data provider Allium Labs to build a dashboard that helps people make sense of stablecoin activity.
26 April 2024
The UK's biggest banks are pushing ahead with the experimentation phase of a Regulated Liability Network, a financial market infrastructure for programmable money operating on a multi-bank shared ledger.
16 April 2024
Hong Kong's financial regulator is poised to give the green light to the first batch of bitcoin spot ETFs.
11 April 2024
The global insurance industry is turning its attention to the risks posed by cryptocurrencies and digital assets, judging by recent product announcements.
10 April 2024
The European Central Bank has put together a host of participants for exploratory work on the use of distributed ledger technology to settle wholesale transactions in central bank money.
09 April 2024
Crypto and blockchain giant Ripple is launching its own dollar-pegged stablecoin.
04 April 2024
A collection of seven central banks are working with the Bank for International Settlements to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments.
News/regulation
UK regulators are inviting feedback on draft guidance for firms looking to enter the country's new Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS).
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