Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

BTMU and IBM use blockchain for contract management

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) and IBM are teaming up to use blockchain technologies for the design, management and execution of contracts among business partners.

16 September 2016

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Barclays signs contracts with six accelerator graduates

Barclays Bank has signed contracts with six fintech startups participating in its accelerator programme in New York.

16 September 2016

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Ripple scores $55 million funding round; adds new bank members

Ripple has won a ringing endorsement for its approach to using distributed ledger technologies to transform the cross-border payment business, scooping $55 million in funding and adding fve new banks to its network.

15 September 2016

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Finextra paper finds shared services key for proxy voting transformation

Local custodians can tackle structural costs - and improve customer experience - through outsourced proxy services, finds a new paper from Finextra.

15 September 2016

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KPMG launches Canadian distributed ledger service

The Canadian arm of KPMG is looking to cash in on the blockchain goldrush through the launch of a suite of services designed to help banks realise the potential of distributed ledger technology.

15 September 2016

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itBit puts Bankchain under Paxos umbrella

Paxos, a financial technology company delivering revolutionary blockchain solutions for global financial institutions, today unveiled its new brand.

13 September 2016

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Kyckr develops corporate identity blockchain

Kyckr is pleased to announce that it has completed phase one in the development of its corporate identity blockchain service.

13 September 2016

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ABN Amro joins hyperledger hackathon

ABN Amro, IBM, Holland FinTech and Linux Foundation are to run the first-ever Hyperledger hackathon, inviting coders to develop new financial applications capable of running on distributed ledgers.

12 September 2016

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BNP Paribas open New York Innovation Zone

BNP Paribas has opened a 5000 square foot 'Innovation Zone' on the 30th floor of its Manhattan HQ, where it is inviting employees to come and re-imagine the bank.

09 September 2016

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Bitcoin a threat to card acquirers and issuers - Santander

The rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology could have a profound impact on the card market, hurting acquirers and issuer banks but ultimately benefiting Visa and MasterCard, according to experts from Santander.

09 September 2016

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Blockchain and fraud dection startups win through to BBVA Open Talent finals

Startups looking to disrupt the world of identity authentication and fraud prevention took home the top spots in New York during the first of three regional finals for the BBVA Open Talent 2016 competition.

08 September 2016

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Hyperledger Project adds Wanda Group

Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that FFan Technology under Wanda Group has joined as a Premier member of the project.

08 September 2016

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Thomson Reuters delves deeper into Ethereum

Thomson Reuters is partnering with Ethereum, Imperial College of London, UCL, and tech partners Oraclize, Crypto Compare and Ethcore to host a weekend-long blockchain hackathon in Canary Wharf, London.

08 September 2016

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Barclays executes live Letter of Credit transaction using distributed ledger technology

Barclays Bank and accelerator graduate Wave have executed a live Letter of Credit transaction between Ornua - the Irish Dairy Board - and Sychelles Trading Company on a distributed ledger based system.

07 September 2016

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R3 signs up BM&FBovespa as first exchange member

The rapidly expanding R3 distributed ledger consortium has added its first exchange, in the shape of Brazilian giant BM&FBovespa.

06 September 2016

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Virtual currencies unlikely to crowd out fiat - Swift research

The Swift Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community.

06 September 2016

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Exchange body calls for creation of regulatory sandboxes for distributed ledgers

The World Federation of Exchanges is calling for the creation of regulatory sandboxes for distributed ledger technology, to help industry efforts to explore and understand the impact of blockchain-based services in the capital markets.

05 September 2016

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Credit Unions create their own R3-like blockchain consortium

In an effort to prove that blockchain technology is not just the preserve of big ticket banking associations, US credit unions have formed a collaborative venture to explore the application of distributed ledgers for member-owned financial cooperatives.

05 September 2016

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China Merchants Bank joins R3 distributed ledger consortium

Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Merchants Bank (CMB) to its partnership dedicated to designing and applying distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies (DLT) to global financial markets.

02 September 2016

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Hyperledger blockchain project grows membership

Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that 17 new organizations have joined to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications.

01 September 2016