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Company update/crypto
Sygnum Bank announces today that it is the first bank to offer Ethereum (1) 2.0 staking.
06 July 2021
News/crypto
Ripple has joined a $13 million funding round in Mintable, an NFT marketplace that enables users to create, buy, and sell digital items using fiat or cryptocurrency.
02 July 2021
Company update/wholesale
Contour has opened an innovation lab In Singapore where it will collaborate closely with its growing network of banks, corporates and ecosystem partners to research and develop novel, digitally native trade finance solutions.
01 July 2021
News/regulation
HSBC has signed on as the fourth founding member bank of a blockchain-based KYC data sharing coalition in the UAE.
News/payments
With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.
29 June 2021
News/cloud
DZ Bank and BayernLB have traded an over-the-counter interest rate derivative in the form of a digital smart derivative contract, with the resulting payments settled daily via Deutsche Börse.
LiquidShare, a leading European fintech startup, has selected Sextant for Daml, the blockchain and smart contract management and operations platform provided by Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), to deliver its cutting-edge post-trade offering.
Company update/markets
Digital Asset today announced a new partnership with Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) to enable Daml-driven applications on the Nasdaq Marketplace Services Platform.
24 June 2021
Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, today announced it secured a $100 million Series E financing led by Coatue, bringing its valuation to $4.2 billion.
Ivno, the London-based financial markets Tokenization company, and CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced a new strategic partnership that leverages Ivno’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) and CloudMargin’s collateral management capabilities.
Donut, a mobile app to save and earn high yield with DeFi, today announced the closing of $2 million in a new funding round. Redalpine added to their commitment, bringing Donut’s total funding to date to $3.8 million.
23 June 2021
Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.
22 June 2021
Today, HQLAᵡ announced it has added J.P. Morgan as a strategic investor in its Series B funding round, joining existing investors BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Citigroup, and Deutsche Börse Group.
Digital asset securities firm Securitize has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital.
21 June 2021
Company update/payments
E-Livestock Global today launched a first-of-its kind solution powered by Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, empowering Zimbabwean farmers to prove the origin and health records of their cattle, while reducing risks to buyers.
17 June 2021
Digital trade finance network Contour has completed its Series A+ fundraising round, securing investment from leading regional and global trade banks as its technology continues to be deployed by banks, corporates and partners across the globe.
Company update/people
On the heels of its recent raise of $31 million in Series B funding this year, Securrency, Inc., a leading developer of institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology, announced the appointment of MonaLisa Raas Como as Chief Commercial Officer and Bill Ashlock as Chief Technology Officer.
16 June 2021
News/markets
UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to run its latest bond offering using a distributed ledger platform developed by Singapore Exchange and Temasek.
A pair of former PayPal executives has launched a decentralised global payments network to connect banks, merchants and payment providers to transact in digital currencies around the world.
Contour has launched its first domestic offering in Bangladesh – a trade finance network specifically designed to offer SMEs greater access to trade finance in the country.
14 June 2021
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