Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Avaloq acquires 10% stake in Swiss blockchain and crypto-currency specialist Metaco

Swiss fintech leader Avaloq has acquired a 10% stake in Metaco, the Lausanne-based blockchain and crypto-currency specialist.

26 April 2018

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Ripple signs five more money transfer operators to xVia

Five money transfer operators from across the EU and Asia are to tap Ripple's xVia API to open a new corridor for funneling payments across RippleNet.

26 April 2018

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BBVA uses Ether and Hyperledger to perform corporate loan deal

BBVA has closed a EUR75 million corporate loan deal with technology partner Indra, performing the complete process from negotiation to the signing of the loan over a mix of different public and private blockchain-based platforms.

26 April 2018

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TD Ameritrade buries logo on the blockchain

US brokerage TD Ameritrade has found a novel way to use distributed ledger technology, making a series of transactions in order to imprint an advertisement on Bitcoin's blockchain.

26 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

ConsenSys joins Crypto Valley Association

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA) is proud to announce that ConsenSys is joining the Association as a Strategic Partner.

25 April 2018

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Blockchain and T2S: A potential disruptor

Pablo Beivide Cavia, Director, Axis Corporate, talks about why is there so much talk about blockchain potentially disrupting the ECB’s Target2Securities system, how blockchain’s strengths add value in the cross-border securities settlement space and what challenges blockchain faces in this business, and how might they be overcome.

25 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Docswallet voted winner of Temenos’ Innovation Jam Abu Dhabi 2018

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announces that Docswallet has won the public vote for best fintech at its annual Abu Dhabi Innovation Jam.

25 April 2018

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DTCC laments lack of coordination on OTC derivatives trade repositories

While significant progress has been made during the last eight years towards establishing a global reporting framework for over-the-counter derivatives transactions, substantial work remains in the areas of data consistency, aggregation and access in order to be able to effectively monitor and reduce systemic risk, according to the DTCC.

25 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Raiffeisen joins Blockchain Research Institute

Raiffeisen Bank International announced today to be the first Austrian bank to join the Blockchain Research Institute, a global think-tank that guides its more than 55 members in achieving success in blockchain-related projects in the areas of financial services, manufacturing, retail, energy and resources, technology and media, healthcare as well as government.

24 April 2018

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Finastra blockchain-based tool for syndicated lending market goes live

Finastra has made its blockchain-based Fusion LenderComm tool for firms operating in the syndicated lending market commercially available as an app on R3's Corda platform.

24 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

B-next unveils blockchain surveillance advances

b-next, the specialist provider of capital markets compliance solutions, will showcase its advances in blockchain surveillance, as well as its latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and behavioural analytics capabilities at Tradetech 2018.

24 April 2018

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Certainty and security with instant payments

Gerhard Bystricky, Head of Product Management Payments Germany, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the progress of pan-European instant payments since it launched, what some of the practical experiences are what else needs to be done to grow the volumes and value of these payments.

24 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

EToro adds EOS to platform

eToro, the global trading and investment platform with over nine million users, has today added EOS onto its platform, bringing the total number of cryptocurrency assets available on the site to ten.

23 April 2018

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KAS Bank moves shareholder voting to the blockchain

KAS Bank is to test a new blockchain-based service for shareholding voting at its own General Shareholders Meeting later this week.

23 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Deloitte runs the rule over Iconomi digital ssets

ICONOMI, the first global digital asset management platform, based on Ethereum technology, has become the world's first crypto company to have carried out a Proof of Solvency – a form of blockchain audit – performed by Deloitte, the largest Big Four professional services firm in the world.

20 April 2018

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JPMorgan tests blockchain for debt issuance

JPMorgan and National Bank of Canada (NBC) have carried out a debt issuance simulation using a new blockchain platform.

20 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Digital Asset opens developer programme for smart contracts

Digital Asset, the leading provider of Distributed Ledger Technology for the financial services industry, today unveiled a developer program for its enterprise smart contract language, DAML.

20 April 2018

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'Fake data' will make banks vulnerable - Accenture

Many banks are not doing enough to verify the validity and accuracy of their data, leaving them vulnerable to false insights that could lead to bad decisions, according to Accenture.

20 April 2018

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Top tier banks pass first transactions on trade finance blockchain

Batavia, a blokchain-based trade finance platform developed by a consortium of international banks and IBM, has passed its first live pilot transactions with corporate clients.

19 April 2018

Company update/Blockchain

Discover joins blockchain collective

The Chamber of Digital Commerce announces the addition of Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) to its Executive Committee, where it will join the Chamber’s efforts to educate, promote and accelerate the adoption of blockchain technologies worldwide.

17 April 2018