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Standard Chartered and Ant International demonstrate intra-group blockchain-based SGD settlement

Standard Chartered and Ant International today announced the successful completion of SGD-denominated liquidity transfers between its entities using Ant International’s blockchain-based Whale platform.

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OCBC and Ant International sign cross-border payments MoU

OCBC and Ant International have formed a strategic partnership to enhance the efficiency and speed of cross-border fund settlements.

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R3 appoints Andy Mosson as head of sales and presales

R3, the financial markets digital solution provider, announces the appointment of Andy Mosson as Head of Sales and Presales.

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UBS Asset Management launches fund on ethereum blockchain

UBS Asset Management has launched a tokenized money market investment fund built on ethereum distributed ledger technology.

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Standard Chartered and Ant International use blockchain for settlement of treasury transactions

Standard Chartered has used Ant Internal's Whale blockchain platform to deliver settlement of HKD-denominated intra-group transactions between various ANT entitites.

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OCBC debuts intraday lending on blockchain

OCBC has become the first Singapore bank with intraday institutional lending capabilities as it seeks to maximise returns from its excess intraday liquidity.

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Libeara and FundBridge Capital to launch US Treasuries fund tokenised on public blockchain

Libeara, a leading real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation platform backed by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s venture building and fintech investment arm, is proud to announce a strategic collaboration with FundBridge Capital, an established Singapore MAS regulated platform provider for fund managers, to introduce the Delta Wellington Ultra Short Treasury On-Chain Fund (“ULTRA Fund”).

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Creating green jobs through biodiversity conservation: Tehanu AI’s pilot project

Speaking to chief experts of Tehanu AI, Tosca Tindall and Patrick McSharry, Finextra learned about their nature-finance focused business that is working to incentivise nature stewardship by creating green jobs.

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BBVA Asset Management pilots ‘tokenised’ fund

BBVA Asset Management is investigating the use of blockchain technology for a "tokenised" investment fund.

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HSBC and Ant International laud results of blockchain-based tokenized deposit transfers

HSBC and Ant International have completed HKD-denominated cross-bank blockchain-based test transactions under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Ensemble Sandbox.

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Franklin Templeton wins approval to deliver tokenized UCITS fund on blockchain

Franklin Templeton1 one of the world’s largest global investment managers and a pioneer in digital assets technology is delighted to announce that it is has received approval from Luxembourg regulator Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) to launch the first fully tokenised UCITS fund of its kind in Luxembourg.

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Tokenisation use cases to be excited about

At Sibos 2024, Angie Walker, Global Head of Banking and Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs, explored the topics of blockchain and tokenisation and how they are transforming the existing world as well as how the technology creates opportunities for the future. While historically, across money market and fixed income funds, high quality liquid assets have not been able to be moved, with tokenisation, these funds can be migrated seamlessly and instantaneously on the ledger. By liberating assets to be used for other functions in trading operations, the world is a trader’s oyster and future developments in ESG instruments, structured finance, and infrastructure also opens up a way to create commercial assets and verify sequestration with smart contracts and data oracles, ensuring the integrity of the asset, cross chain interoperability and keep the asset in sync throughout it’s life journey.

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Emirates NBD joins Partior cross-border payment network

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye) region, has entered into a strategic agreement with Partior to explore participation in their blockchain-based platform for clearing and settlement, a collaboration that will offer Emirates NBD’s clients 24×7 availability, and faster, more seamless payment flows.

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Eurex Clearing completes DLT-based cash settlement trials with Banque de France

Eurex Clearing has successfully tested the settlement of cash over a distributed ledger operated by the Banque de France.

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How Will New Technologies Shape the Future of Payments?

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024, Pilar Fragalà, Chief Commercial Officer of CBI, explores the impact of digital technologies and regulations on payment services. Highlighting the role of AI, APIs, and blockchain in enhancing security and speed, while PSD2 and PSD3 drive open banking and consumer protection, the discussion focuses on innovations like embedded finance and instant payments that offer transparency and flexibility. Addressing growing fraud risks, the interview examines how technology can prevent fraudulent transactions by verifying IBAN and beneficiary details in real time.

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Keabank launches Payment Intelligence service

Keabank, a leader in blockchain-driven financial services, proudly announces the launch and integration of the world’s first Payment Intelligence service, setting a new standard for financial technology with the Keabank Core Banking System (CBS).

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Eurocler and Swift join Chainlink AI and blockchain initiative for corporate actions

Chainlink announced today the results of an industry initiative that harnesses the combined advancements in AI, oracles, and blockchain technology to address the lack of real-time and standardized data around corporate actions.

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Chainlink Unveils New Privacy and Interoperability Solutions for Blockchain Adoption

At Sibos 2024, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, highlighted the growing adoption of blockchain technology by asset managers, driven by efficiency gains in settlement, payments, and collateral management. Nazarov announced the launch of two key privacy-focused tools: the Blockchain Privacy Manager and CCIP Private Transactions, designed to ensure secure, private transactions across multiple blockchains. He also emphasised the importance of interoperability, introducing Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which aims to enable seamless asset and system integration in the evolving digital assets landscape.

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Sibos: The future of ‘evenly distributed’ tokenisation

The National Bank of Kazakhstan will provide clients the “ability to spend crypto tokens” by the end of this year, announced Assel Marchenko, CTO and deputy of CEO, National Bank of Kazakhstan, at Sibos today.

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International rescure Committee to explore the use of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in aid delivery

Ripple, the leading provider of digital asset infrastructure, today announced a partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the world’s most trusted humanitarian organizations helping people affected by crises to survive, recover and rebuild their lives.