Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Bloq CEO join Linux Foundation board

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, has elected Jeff Garzik, CEO and co-founder of Bloq, as their representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.

02 November 2016

News/Blockchain

DLT: clearing away the payments debris?

Distributed ledger technology has the potential to ease a host of operational pain points with UK payment systems and could be particularly useful for reference data databases, a report from Whitechapel Think Tank (WTT) suggests.

02 November 2016

News/Blockchain

APIs and open banking win most airtime at Sibos 2016

Blockchain still high on the agenda according to Finextra’s review of discussions in Geneva, while excitement about AI grows

01 November 2016

Company update/Blockchain

ABN Amro joins R3

ABN AMRO has recently joined R3, an innovation firm focused on new generation technologies for the financial sector.

01 November 2016

News/Blockchain

Ripple CEO Larsen makes way for Garlinghouse

Ripple CEO Chris Larsen is stepping down, handing over to current COO and president Brad Garlinghouse, who will lead the next stage of the firm's efforts to transform cross-border payments through the use of distributed ledger technologies.

01 November 2016

News/Blockchain

Nimbrix to form buy-side blockchain consortium

Nimbrix, a fintech startup foundered by veterans of BlackRock, UBS and BGI among others, has partnered with KPMG and Microsoft to create a blockchain consortium for the asset management industry.

01 November 2016

News/Blockchain

Japanese banks flock to blockchain consortium

A Japanese bank consortium planning to build a new real-time payments platform using technology from blockchain joint venture SBI Ripple Asia, has expanded to 42 banking members.

01 November 2016

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Mastercard releases blockchain APIs

Not to be outdone by rival Visa, Mastercard is stepping up its interest in distributed ledger technology, quietly adding three blockchain APIs to its developer site

31 October 2016

News/Blockchain

Blockchain adoption unlikely to affect bank ratings in the near term - S&P

Standard & Poor's does not see blockchain technology having any near-term impact on assessments of bank stability, but the ratings agency acknowledges that it could deal a significant blow to traditional business models over the longer term.

28 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

India's uTrade Solutions launches blockchain-enabled KYC platform

uTrade Solutions, the Chandigarh head quartered fintech major which pioneered India’s first blockchain technology driven solution – uClear for real time clearing and settlement of financial market contracts in June this year, has today announced the launch of two more products to its blockchain catalogue.

27 October 2016

News/Blockchain

ABN Amro explores blockchain with Dutch university

ABN Amro is teaming up with Dutch university TU Delft to develop what it calls "more complex" blockchain applications that can deal with large amounts of data.

27 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

PayStand lands on the blockchain

PayStand, the next generation B2B payment and billing company, is leveraging the blockchain in a completely new way for enterprise payments.

26 October 2016

News/Blockchain

Not a prototype or POC; CobaltDL to deploy SETL ledger at live launch

Peer-to-peer FX trading startup Cobalt DL is to deploy OpenCSD, the permissioned ledger based platform from SETL to create a shared view of trade data for market participants.

26 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank starts blockchain trials

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (President: Hitoshi Tsunekage; hereinafter “SuMi TRUST Bank”), with the objective to enhance its services in asset management and administration, real estate and banking businesses; working in cooperation with NEC Corporation (President and CEO: Takashi Niino) and IBM Japan, Ltd. (Country General Manager and President: Paul Yonamine), announces the commencement of demonstration experiments in FinTech.

25 October 2016

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Managing endpoints critical for DL security

Stephen Scharf, Chief Security Officer, DTCC, talks about the cyber security implications of blockchain and how distributed ledger could contribute to recoverability by enabling redundancy and back-up.

25 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

Smart Basket and Smart Lien win BNP Paribas blockchain hackathon

For 2 days, the Group hosted its first Bizhackathon platform for the Americas, the 7th and 8th September in New York.

25 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

Jaxx Wallet to integrate with Zcash

Decentral, creators of the universal blockchain wallet Jaxx, today announced plans to integrate Zcash into its entire suite of software platforms.

25 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

Russian and Chinese CSDs to co-operate on post-trade blockchain

During an official visit to China, National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, signed a memorandum of understanding with China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (CSDC), China’s central securities depository providing services to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

25 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

ConsenSys, Synechron and BlockApps collaborate on removing barrriers to blockchain uptake

Synechron, Inc, a global consulting and technology services provider specializing in the financial services market, has today announced a blockchain collaboration with ConsenSys, a global venture production studio and custom software consultancy, and BlockApps, the leading enterprise blockchain platform employing Ethereum technology.

25 October 2016

Company update/Blockchain

Blockchain and natural language searches join Capital One's tech agenda

Capital One announced today that it will partner with leading digital technology providers to offer an enhanced suite of capabilities to its Treasury Management clients.

25 October 2016