Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

ING spins out digital asset custody platform to GMEX

ING has spun out its institutional-grade digital custody platform Pyctor to market operator GMEX.

11 July 2022

Company update/crypto

Cellebrite and Chainalysis team up

Cellebrite DI Ltd. (NASDAQ: CLBT), a global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, and Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, have launched a partnership to enable customers to easily identify and assess criminal activity involving cryptocurrency during digital investigations to expedite their resolution.

05 July 2022

News/startups

BaaS startup BKN301 raises EUR15m

BKN301, a digital payments and Banking-as-a-Service startup, has raised EUR15 million in a Series A funding round led by Abalone Group.

05 July 2022

News/crypto

Metaco wins crypto custody gig with SocGen

Fresh from a contract win at Citi, Swiss crypto custody player Metaco has signed its next Tier 1 banking client, Societe Generale.

30 June 2022

Company update/startups

Qenta unveils fintech platform for emerging markets

Qenta, Inc., (Qenta) a financial services and infrastructure platform with cutting-edge technology and a proprietary enterprise-grade blockchain, the Qenta Operating System, today unveiled an enhanced and integrated suite of financial solutions.

29 June 2022

Company update/markets

SocGen goes live on Broadridge distributed ledger repo platform

Leveraging the latest technology to further transform its capital market operations, Société Générale, is now live on the distributed ledger technology repo platform (DLR) created by global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR).

29 June 2022

News/wholesale

Caceis recruits Taurus for digital custody offering

France-based Caceis is the latest asset servicing firm to announce plans to develop its custody service for digital assets.

27 June 2022

News/wholesale

Blockchain firm SETL acquired by Turkish fintech

Enterprise blockchain firm SETL has been acquired by Turkey-based fintech Colendi.

27 June 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

Money 20/20: How blockchain analytics can be built into business models

Marina Khaustova, CEO, Crystal Blockchain, speaks at Money 20/20 about how the crypto space can move to being AML compliant, how crypto regulation is going to evolve over the next few years, the impact of sanctions, and how blockchain analytics can be built into a business model.

27 June 2022

Company update/people

Cion Digital names Sundar Nagarathnam COO

Cion Digital, developers of the first enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, announced today the appointment of senior executive Sundar Nagarathnam as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

24 June 2022

Company update/payments

ISO 20022 player Impel launches to challenge Swift and Sepa

Impel and the XDC Network (XinFin) today announced the official launch of Impel, an alternative solutions platform for quickly and securely sending ISO 20022-compliant financial messages.

24 June 2022

Company update/crypto

Nium and Stellar Development Foundation enable payouts in 190 countries

Nium, the global platform for modern money movement, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of the open-source public blockchain Stellar, today announced a partnership to enable payouts to 190 countries.

22 June 2022

Company update/startups

Future Fund raises $3.8m for blockchain-based micro-investment platform

Future Fund – a fintech start-up founded by a group of Polish managers – announced the conclusion of its private sale round. Investors who joined the project during this round provided $3.8 million for its development, turning Future Fund into one of the world's most valued blockchain start-ups in 2022.

22 June 2022

Company update/people

Partior appoints full leadership team and opens Hyderabad development centre

Global blockchain-based financial market infrastructure, Partior, today announced key milestones in its international expansion journey, highlighting the growth of its partners and currency offerings.

21 June 2022

News/crypto

Bank of Israel investigates anonymous digital shekel payments

The Bank of Israel has been experimenting with technology that would allow some CBDC payments to be made anonymously.

21 June 2022

Company update/markets

AllianceBernstein to deploy Allfunds Blockchain

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (NYSE:AB), a leading global asset management firm, and Allfunds Blockchain, the arm of Allfunds (AMS:ALLFG) specialized in blockchain technology, have announced a collaboration to adapt AB’s asset services activities to the blockchain ecosystem.

15 June 2022

News/wholesale

Singapore banks pick MonetaGo to build trade finance registry

The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has chosen MonetaGo to build a new network for registering trade finance transactions.

15 June 2022

News/markets

Big banks test DLT-based intraday FX swaps and repo trading platform

Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.

14 June 2022

Company update/people

Fnality names Olga Zoutendijk as chairwoman

Fnality International has announced the appointment of Olga Zoutendijk as Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.

13 June 2022

Company update/markets

Catalyst Blockchain Platform launches on Corda

Catalyst Blockchain Platform is now available on Corda, the leading distributed ledger technology platform from R3, created specifically for highly-regulated markets.

10 June 2022