Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Singapore presses ahead with blockchain-based Project Ubin

Singapore's central bank is working with the Singapore Exchange and three technology partners - Anquan, Deloitte and Nasdaq - to develop Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities for settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.

24 August 2018

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CBA applies blockchain and IoT to agribusiness

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is experimenting with the use of Internet of Things and blockchain technology to help business clients more efficiently buy and manage expensive assets such as farming equipment.

24 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Binance launches incubation programme

Labs team is very happy to introduce our new incubation program to support top early-stage teams with our best resources to help them jump start their best ideas.

23 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

ZenCash rebrands as Horizon

ZenCash, the privacy-focused blockchain platform for borderless, decentralized communications and transactions, has announced a comprehensive brand expansion to reflect the significant technical, commercial, and community developments the project has achieved since launching in May 2017.

23 August 2018

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Thai central bank kicks off digital currency project

Thailand's Central bank has kicked off a project with R3 and eight banks on the development of a digital currency (CBDC) for use in domestic wholesale funds transfers.

23 August 2018

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Liechtenstein's Union Bank to issue own cryptocurrency

Liechtenstein's Union Bank is taking advantage of the principality's blockchain-friendly regulations to issue its own security tokens, closely followed by the release of a fiat-backed digital currency.

23 August 2018

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EToro pays for football club sponsorship deals in Bitcoin

In an English Premier League first, seven football clubs will be paid in bitcoin for sponsorship deals with online trading and investment platform eToro.

21 August 2018

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Thomson Reuters and Singapore fintech group join to fight cybercrime

The Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) and Thomson Reuters are to collaborate on projects to promote the country's fintech industry and strengthen its fight against cybercrime.

21 August 2018

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Cambodia establishes fintech association

Cambodia has become the latest country to launch a national body designed to foster more fintech collaboration with the launch of the Cambodia Fintech Association (CFA).

17 August 2018

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Chinese firms partner for blockchain payment systems play

Two of China’s largest financial services firms have agreed to work towards the development of a blockchain-based mobile payment system in what has been a busy week for China's burgeoning fintech sector and also a signal of the extent of China's blockchain ambitions.

17 August 2018

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Barclaycard partners accelerator graduate to digitise B2B supply chain

Barclaycard is working with Silicon Valley startup Crowdz to digitise and speed up what is still for many firms a slow and clunky business-to-business supply chain.

17 August 2018

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BMO pilots blockchain for fixed income issuance

Bank of Montreal's capital markets unit has piloted the use of a blockchain platform for a pilot fixed income issuance transaction.

16 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Ripple brings on three exchange partners for xRapid

xRapid, Ripple’s cross border payments product that minimizes liquidity costs, is powered by the superior speed, low transaction cost and scalability of the digital asset XRP.

16 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Toshi rebrands as Coinbase Wallet

Today, we’re proud to announce that Toshi is becoming Coinbase Wallet.

16 August 2018

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Coinbase acquires decentralised ID startup

Coinbase has acquired Distributed Systems in a bid to create a decentralised digital identity platform for crypto-wallet enthusiasts and Web merchants.

16 August 2018

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AAIS partners IBM for blockchain-based insurance regulatory reporting

The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) is using blockchain technology from IBM to help to automate regulatory reporting.

15 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Insurance sector to trial blockchain tech for dispute resolution

The insurance sectors’ experiment with Blockchain technology is due to take place to help resolve disputes with car-liability claims in the pre-litigation phase.

15 August 2018

Company update/Blockchain

SEC bars perpertartor of ICO fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained permanent officer-and-director and penny stock bars against the founder of a company who perpetrated a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) to fund oil exploration and drilling in California.

14 August 2018

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Big banks join $32 million funding round in Axoni

Goldman Sachs and Nyca Partners have led a $32 million funding round in enterprise blockchain vendor Axoni.

14 August 2018

Finextra TV/Blockchain

KYC, AML & Transparency for Crypto-Currencies & ICOs

Conor Coughlan, Global Head of Marketing, Fenergo, discusses the challenges facing institutions, issuers, exchanges, & investors in determining viability & suitability, for investing in crypto-currencies, ICOs and derived offerings so that this new asset class can mature, open up to institutional investors and play a more value adding role in the global economy.

14 August 2018