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TMX develops blockchain prototype for energy business

TMX Group today announced the development of a blockchain-based prototype to power a new service offering from Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group and leading North American energy exchange.

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Naspers leads $5 million round in Coins

Coins, Southeast Asia’s leading blockchain-enabled mobile payments platform, announced today the closing of a $5 million fundraise led by Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division, bringing the total amount raised in its Series A to over US$9.4M.

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Van der Kleij resurfaces with new tech hub venture

Tech pioneer, Eric Van der Kleij, returns to the forefront of the UK’s technology scene today with his next venture, the launch of C4DR; a multi-city business development hub comprising a built-in international corporate foundry, a series of startup challenge programmes targeting key industry verticals, and an in-house 4IR think tank.

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Waves puts client money on the blockchain

Waves has launched its flagship Euro gateway, which will allow users of the platform to deposit and withdraw Euros directly from within the lite client, holding and trading them directly from their Waves accounts as WEUR blockchain tokens.

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Netki and Bitt ship digital currency platform for central banks

Netki, a provider of Open Source and Open Standards compliance solutions for blockchains, announced today at Consensus the first production platform for Central Banks using its Digital Identity Service.

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R3 raises $107m

In the largest funding round in the history of distributed ledger technology, the R3 consortium has raised $107 million from around half of its members as well as Intel and Temasek Holdings.

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ShapeShift launches digital asset trading network

Investors with an appetite for cryptocurrencies, which have been booming lately, can now create their own digital asset portfolios of any allocation, using Prism – the world’s first trustless asset portfolio platform – built entirely on Ethereum-based smart contracts, and launched by Swiss blockchain technology company ShapeShift AG.

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NEX to release Infinity SaaS platform for production testing

NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, announces today that it has built the underlying architecture for NEX Infinity, a cloud hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which will transform the delivery of NEX Optimisation’s services to clients.

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Synechron to launch blockchain applications on Microsoft Azure

Synechron Inc., the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced that demo versions of a select group of its blockchain accelerator applications will be made available on Microsoft Azure.

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JPMorgan taps Zcash privacy feature for blockchain platform

JPMorgan is to use technology from the company behind the Zcash digital currency to add a new layer of privacy protection to users of its enterprise-grade Quorum blockchain platform.

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Citi and Nasdaq run blockchain-based settlement for private securities

Citi is providing financial resolution for secondary market transactions conducted over Nasdaq's Linq Platform, using distributed ledger technology from Chain to address the challenges of liquidity in private securities by streamlining payment transactions between multiple parties.

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EBA analyses role of distributed ledgers in international payments

The Euro Banking Association today issued a new information paper looking into potential benefits and use cases of cryptotechnologies in the context of international payments and more specifically correspondent banking practices.

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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance triples in size

Corporate support for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is gathering momentum, with 86 new companies adding their weight to the initiative to promote the uptake of Ethereum as the foundation for running smart contracts in Fortune 500 enterprises

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Citi names Tech for Integrity challenge winners

Citi today announced the three award recipients from Citi’s Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) Demo Day in Dublin, held on May 18.

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Abu Dhabi Global Market joins R3

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre in Abu Dhabi, is pleased to join R3 as a new member of its international consortium.

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Santiago Exchange signs for IBM blockchain tech

Chile's Santiago Exchange has enlisted IBM to help it build what is being billed as the world's first securities lending blockchain platform.

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Payments Canada names FinTech Cup finalists

The Payments Canada Summit will again play host to a competition between some of Canada’s most innovative FinTech, PayTech, AI and RegTech startups.

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Wipro goes big on blockchain

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, today announced that it has developed nine blockchain-based solutions for the Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Goods industries.

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SatoshiPay adds PayPal as a payments option

Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX:COIN), the accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is pleased to announce that SatoshiPay Ltd (‘SatoshiPay’), a Nano-Payments company in which Coinsilium has a 12.08% equity interest, has added PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) as a new medium for SatoshiPay users to recharge their accounts, opening up SatoshiPay’s services to 200 million active PayPal user accounts across 200 markets worldwide.

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China central bank sets up fintech committee

The People's Bank of China has set up a committee that will investigate the impact of fintech on monetary policy and financial markets as well as how big data and AI can be used for regulatory oversight.