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News/Blockchain
The Toronto Stock Exchange has become the latest bourse to recognise the potential importance of distributed ledger technology, hiring blockchain specialist Anthony Di Iorio as its chief digital officer.
07 March 2016
The emergence of a raft of disruptive technologies and trends will fundamentally transform the financial industry over the next five to ten years, says Deloitte.
04 March 2016
Registration has opened for EBAday 2016, Europe's pre-eminent payments conference and exhibition, which will be staged this year in Milan.
Company update/Blockchain
Ipreo and Symbiont announced today that they are creating a new company to overhaul antiquated and costly manual processing in the $3 trillion global syndicated loans market.
03 March 2016
Recruitment for blockchain specialists at major banks and vendors is hotting up, as Visa, Thomson Reuters and BNY Mellon post ads on job boards.
Distributed ledger consortium R3 has connected 40 banks to five different blockchains and allowed them to facilitate issuance, secondary trading and redemption of a fixed income product in the largest known trial of the technology to date.
Israel is the latest country to get a dedicated fintech hub, as The Floor arrives in Tel Aviv promising to support startups disrupting the financial services industry.
We’re very excited to make bitcoin purchases faster and easier. Today we’re launching a new Coinbase product (in beta) to users in the United States: Buy bitcoin instantly with debit cards.
02 March 2016
A senior Bank of England official has floated the idea of using distributed ledger technology to enable individuals to hold digital currency accounts with the central bank, but has warned that such a move could prove damaging to commercial providers.
Two of Wall Street's most high-profile women have joined together to bring blockchain-based services to the financial markets as Sallie Crawcheck joins the board of Blythe Masters' distributed ledger outfit Digital Asset Holdings.
A new partnership announced today between HYPR Corp. and BitGo, Inc. extends biometric authentication to the blockchain space to secure digital assets, cryptocurrency, identities and private keys.
01 March 2016
Azure's Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps: STRATO.
For this purpose the Bank of Russia has established a Working group for analysing prospective technologies and innovations in the financial market.
The Korea Exchange is looking to use distributed ledger technology for a new OTC trading platform.
The Financial Stability Board is to evaluate the potential for systemic risk posed by emerging innovations in financial technology, a move which may mark the beginning of the end to the regulatory advantages enjoyed by fintech firms operating at the fringes of the financial services sector.
29 February 2016
Ribbit.me, a NY-based blockchain technology startup, announced that it closed a $1.5 million seed round, led by Hayaat Group, an investment company based in Dubai, with Privity FZ LLE acting as advisor.
26 February 2016
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is the latest financial services giant to go public with its distributed ledger progress, confirming that it is working with Ripple on cross-border payments and experimenting with a blockchain-based loyalty platform.
Finextra TV/Blockchain
Chris Sier, Director, FiNexus, outlines the findings of government reports into fintech and distributed ledger technology, and discusses the potential role of Leeds as a fintech hub.
25 February 2016
Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, releases the results of the 2016 Global Asset Management and Administration Survey.
Middle East banking powerhouse Emirates NBD is inviting fintech startups from around the world to take part in a competition to design digital financial services tools for the chance to win cash prizes.
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