Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Company update/cloud

Data management and AI automation tools top investments for financial firms - survey

Investing in technology to better optimize data and modernize data management are the top priorities for financial services firms according to new research by global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR).

21 July 2022

News/regulation

UK to regulate stablecoins as part of Finance bill

Fintechs and crypto asset providers have welcomed the UK government’s decision to bring stablecoins into regulatory scope as part of the recently published Financial Services and Markets Bill.

21 July 2022

News/crypto

BNP Paribas Securities Services joins crypto custody market

BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS) has become the latest asset servicer to promote its push into the digital assets custody sector.

20 July 2022

Company update/crypto

CoinDCX recruits for DeFi push

CoinDCX, one of India’s Largest and most valuable crypto companies, is ramping up its leadership team by hiring industry leaders for its Defi initiatives, despite tough market sentiments.

20 July 2022

Company update/crypto

Ekta launches portalfor passive crypto income

Ekta, the blockchain company that connects the physical world with Web3, is to launch its first hardware product — the Ekta Portal.

19 July 2022

News/wealth

Schroders buys stake in digital assets firm

Global asset manager Schroders has acquired a minority share in Forteus, an asset manager focused on blockchain and digital assets.

19 July 2022

Company update/crypto

BTSE launches crypto trading terminal

BTSE, a global digital asset exchange serving top crypto institutions and retail traders, has launched a new crypto trading terminal powered by Germany-based Margin.

19 July 2022

Company update/people

Prontoblock appoints CFO

Prontoblock, today announced the appointment of Kelley Millet as the company's Chief Financial Officer and Board Member, effective July 15, 2022.

19 July 2022

Company update/crypto

Orbital adds support for USDC on Solana

Orbital has added support for USDC, on the Solana layer 1 blockchain protocol, to its crypto-commerce payment processing solution.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Coinbase gets crypto service provider approval in Italy

Crypto firm Coinbase has been granted approval by Italy's financial regulator to operate as a crypto assets service provider.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Russian firm claims digital token first

Atomyze, a Russia-based blockchain firm, has launched what it claims to be the country's first digital token to be backed by palladium.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Sustainable blockchain network 5ire secures $100 million Series A

5ire has raised funding from futuristic technology group SRAM & MRAM to be dubbed the fastest growing blockchain unicorn in India and the only sustainable blockchain unicorn in the world, boasting a valuation of $1.5 billion.

15 July 2022

News/wholesale

Banque de France steps up wholesale CBDC work

The Banque de France is accelerating its wholesale CBDC programme as it bids to be ready to bring in central bank money as a settlement asset as early as 2023.

13 July 2022

Company update/markets

SIX Digital Exchange tokenizes private shares on blockchain-based Central Securities Depository

Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the world’s first fully regulated digital asset exchange and Central Securities Depository (CSD), working in partnership with F10, a global FinTech and InsurTech Innovation Ecosystem and Aequitec, a digital share register and cap table company, announces the first-ever tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

12 July 2022

Company update/markets

Allfunds Blockchain makes inroads in Italy

Allfunds Blockchain, the arm of Allfunds (AMS:ALLFG) specialized in blockchain technology, launches FAST in Italy, a solution built on blockchain technology aimed at increasing the speed and efficiency of mutual funds transfers, which was already successfully launched in Spain.

12 July 2022

News/startups

Santander to hold awards ceremony in metaverse

Santander will host an awards ceremony in the metaverse this week to crown the winners of a global blockchain challenge.

12 July 2022

News/crypto

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