Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Overstock unit and BOX prep security token exchange

The blockchain subsidiary of online retailer Overstock has teamed up with BOX Digital Markets to build a regulated security token exchange.

22 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Risk and compliance staff expect big benefits from AI and DLT

Building on its commitment to help connect and empower the global financial and corporate communities by providing actionable insights and proprietary solutions that add greater value, Thomson Reuters recently commissioned Celent to conduct independent market research on integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).

22 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Central Crypto and Huobi team on quantitative crypto-trading initiative

As the digital assets becoming increasingly relevant, many cryptocurrency exchange executives and quantitative financial experts said in a cryptotrading summit on May 19, crypto trading is a better application for quantitative techniques, but the investors are calling for more integrated source of information for further education.

22 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Dawn of the blockchain IPO

Stock certificates could someday be endangered, replaced by the new invasive species of security tokens.

22 May 2018

Company update/devops

Finastra adds US fintechs to open platform

Finastra today welcomed four early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open platform. US-based Fintechs, including Tradle, Conversation.one, Active Allocator and GreenPoint Financial, are on board to design and create apps on Finastra’s platform.

22 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Coinsuper establishes Crypto Exchange Network

Coinsuper, the professional digital asset trading platform, is pleased to initiate the establishment of a Crypto Exchange Network (CEN), with the vision of connecting the financial world.

22 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

UK Cryptoassets Taskforce meets for the first time

The first meeting of the UK’s new Cryptoassets Taskforce took place today. The Taskforce agreed its objectives, which include exploring the impact of cryptoassets, the potential benefits and challenges of the application of distributed ledger technology in financial services, and assessing what, if any, regulation is required in response.

21 May 2018

News/Blockchain

Digital banking transformation creating new systemic risks

Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance.

21 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Tradeshift goes all in on blockchain

The problem you didn’t know you had with accounts payable is that making suppliers wait up to 90 days to get paid is bad for innovation, bad for global trade, and bad for business.

21 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Proxima and eToro incorporate in Gibraltar for DLT framework

Albert Isola, Minister for Commerce HM Government of Gibraltar is delighted to note that ProximaX Ltd., has chosen to incorporate its company in Gibraltar because of the new distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) Regulatory Framework that commenced in January 2018 and which provides a conducive environment for DLT businesses.

21 May 2018

News/Blockchain

MUFG to roll out blockchain payment network next year

Mitsubishi UFJ intends to roll out a new payments platform for micropayments and Internet of Things applications using a blockchain network from Akamai.

21 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Paxos Bankchcain authorised in New York

Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo today announced that the Department of Financial Services has authorized Paxos Trust Company LLC, formerly known as itBit Trust Company, to offer a permissioned, blockchain-based post-trade platform settlement service called Bankchain, and has granted a virtual currency license to Genesis Global Trading, Inc.

18 May 2018

News/Blockchain

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plans blockchain securities lending platform

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is working with Accenture to build a distributed ledger technology-based securities lending platform.

18 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Nuggets payments and ID privacy platform moves into alpha

Nuggets, the award-winning e-commerce payments and ID platform, has opened up its mobile app Alpha to iOS users.

17 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Commerzbank links SAP S/4Hana to R3 Corda

Commerzbank, supported by SAP, has successfully completed an end-to-end integration between SAP S/4HANA business processes and R3’s Corda blockchain platform.

17 May 2018

News/Blockchain

SEC lures wannabe crypto investors with fake ICO site

Not content with general doom mongering on the perils of investing in Initial Coin Offerings, the Securities and Exchange Commission has gone one step further, creating its own mock ICO website that touts an all too good to be true investment opportunity.

17 May 2018

News/Blockchain

Banco Santander counts the votes at AGM using blockchain tech

Santander and Broadridge, in collaboration with JPMorgan and Northern Trust as custodian banks, have completed a test run of blockchain for investor voting at the Spanish bank's annual general meeting (AGM).

17 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

EEA unveils standardised ethereum specification for enterprise deployment

Until today, organizations were required to build proprietary variations of a private-permissioned Enterprise Ethereum implementation.

16 May 2018

News/Blockchain

Fed governor: Digital tokens for financial settlement hold promise for central banks

Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard believes special-purpose digital tokens for wholesale payments and some aspects of distributed ledger technology may hold promise for strengthening traditional financial instruments and markets.

16 May 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Circle rounds on $110 million funding round

Today we announced the pending availability of tokenized US dollar coins supported by developments in the CENTRE open source framework and by a new partnership with Bitmain, which is also leading a $110M Series E equity investment in Circle.

16 May 2018