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News/Blockchain
Distributed ledger technology consortium R3 has teamed up with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to open a centre of excellence on the island
09 November 2016
Online retailer Overstock is furthering its efforts to build a crypto-trading platform by taking a stake in Belgian blockchain startup SettleMint.
08 November 2016
Finextra TV/Blockchain
Sean Gilchrist, Managing Director, Commercial Digital, Lloyds Banking Group, outlines the role of emerging technology on banking, and how the regulatory burden continues to impact the industry.
07 November 2016
SEB is to use blockchain technology from Ripple to enable customers to make real-time intra-bank transfers between accounts in Stockholm and New York.
Company update/Blockchain
Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets.
04 November 2016
Philippe Ruault, Head of Innovation and Digital Lab, BNP Paribas Securities Services, speaks about the implementations of blockchain and what the associated issues may be in its application.
Fintech firms do not pose an immediate threat to international financial stability, according to a G20-backed watchdog, which nevertheless says that it is monitoring the nascent sector carefully.
Pierangelo Mortara, Deputy General Manager, UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions, speaks about innovations in banking and where distributed ledger technology can fit in.
03 November 2016
Nick Armstrong, Co-founder and CEO, Identitii, plots out the timeline for mainstream blockchain adoption and what the killer app might be.
Switzerland's Federal Council is calling for regulations on fintech firms to be eased in an effort to boost the competitiveness of the country's financial sector.
02 November 2016
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.
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.
Blockchain still high on the agenda according to Finextra’s review of discussions in Geneva, while excitement about AI grows
01 November 2016
ABN AMRO has recently joined R3, an innovation firm focused on new generation technologies for the financial sector.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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