Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Coinsilium invests in blockchain-powered professional social network Indorse

Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN), the accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is pleased to announce the completion of its investment of SG$100,000 (circa £56,100) in Indorse Pte. Ltd. through a convertible loan agreement.

08 June 2017

News/Blockchain

Winning in the digital moment; Leading banks explain what it takes

A stellar line-up of 27 senior bankers and fintech experts will be onstage at the Finextra SAP Financial Services Forum in London next month to detail winning strategies for banks competing in a digitally-driven business market.

08 June 2017

News/Blockchain

FinTech50: London continues to dominate European scene

The Brexit cloud may loom large but, for now, the UK remains at the centre of Europe's financial technology scene, home to nearly two thirds of the firms that make it into this year's FinTech50.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Real time data is differentiator under MiFID II

Thomas Kennedy, Group Head of Analytic Services, Thomson Reuters, talks about how MiFID II will impact transparency and drive innovation across asset classes.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Leveraging Ireland’s three Ls…

Alan Duffy, CEO, Ireland, HSBC, talks about the strengths of Ireland in terms of law, location and language, the opportunities – and challenges – created for the country by Brexit, and the power of technology and digital to be gamechangers over the coming years.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Banks should treat APIs as products

Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payments, talks about the opportunities for banks under PSD2, and how the ability to execute will separate winners from losers.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Brexit gives Dublin a chance to shine

Peter Vance, Head of Group Operations, Customer Services, AIB, looks forward to EBAday in Dublin, and discusses the strengths of Ireland as a financial – and technology – centre.

05 June 2017

Company update/Blockchain

Quisk begins blockchain deployment

Quisk, Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley and provider of a secure digitized cash payment network for banks and financial institutions around the world, announced today that it will begin incorporating Blockchain technology into its platform.

05 June 2017

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Indian banks to work with five Startupbootcamp Mumbai graduates

Five of the eleven startups graduating from Startupbootcamp's 2017 Indian accelerator programme have secured pilots with bank sponsors RBL and Icici.

02 June 2017

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Fifteen startups selected for EBAday Fintech Pavillion

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association have selected 15 of Europe's most promising startups to present their ideas to banking delegates attending EBAday 2017, the continent's leading payments and transaction banking event.

02 June 2017

Company update/Blockchain

PrivateMarket.io enlists Symbiont for alternative investment marketplace for close-end funds

Hong Kong-based PrivateMarket.io and Symbiont today announced an agreement to build an alternative investment marketplace for closed-end funds using Symbiont’s SmartSecuritiesTM software. Terms were not disclosed.

01 June 2017

Company update/Blockchain

Japanese banks join with R3 to streamline derivative master agreements

Nomura Holdings, Inc., Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and R3 today announced the successful testing of a prototype developed using Corda, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform based on blockchain, to streamline ISDA Master Agreement negotiation.

01 June 2017

News/Blockchain

In race to bring blockchain to financial markets, developers embrace open-source

We may be living in an era of data breaches and hacking scandals but more than half of financial markets participants working on blockchain see open-source as the best model for the technology.

01 June 2017

News/Blockchain

Singapore opens up on DLT trials

Singapore is pushing ahead with its investigation into the use of a tokenised dollar on a distributed ledger for inter-bank payments.

31 May 2017

Company update/Blockchain

Securities depositories release requirements for proxy voting via distributed ledgers

CSD Working Group on DLT, an association of Central Securities Depositories working on developing reference products using Distributed Ledger Technology, has released product requirements for the proxy voting business case during the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) Operational Committee meeting in London on April 24, 2017.

31 May 2017

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Spanish banks back multi-sector DLT project

Major Spanish banks are backing a multi-sector national project to create a digital identity system based on smart contracts.

31 May 2017

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Cecabank sets up Spanish blockchain consortium

A new Spanish blockchain consortium spearheaded by Cecabank and professional services firm Grant Thornton is building tools designed to combat money laundering and boost KYC efforts.

26 May 2017

Company update/Blockchain

Everex announces mobile blockchain-powered microfinance and fiat transfer platform

Everex, a well established blockchain company developing Ethereum applications, announced yesterday that it is expanding its operations towards global, blockchain-enabled microcredit and fiat remittance services.

26 May 2017

Company update/Blockchain

Russian researchers develop 'quantum-safe' blockchain

Researchers at the Russian Quantum Center today announced that they have created the first quantum-safe blockchain.

26 May 2017

News/Blockchain

Bank of Canada says DLT not ready for interbank payment system

Following a year-long experiment, the Bank of Canada says that distributed ledger technology is not ready to act as the backbone of a wholesale interbank payment system.

25 May 2017