Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Company update/people

Global Blockchain Business Council adds SDX's Tim Grant to board

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading industry association for the blockchain ecosystem, has named Tim Grant, Head of Business at SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the Swiss-based leading digital asset exchange, to its Board of Directors.

08 July 2020

Company update/wholesale

EssDOCS’ CargoDocs DocEx to be available within Finacle Trade Connect blockchain

essDOCS, the leading enabler of paperless trade, today announced a partnership with Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), for driving automation in Trade finance processes though Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

08 July 2020

Company update/crypto

Chainalysis tops up Series B

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced it raised an additional $13M to expand its Series B round to $49M with an investment from Ribbit Capital and Sound Ventures.

07 July 2020

News/crypto

UNICEF turning to cryptocurrency in fight against Covid-19

Global children’s charity UNICEF is looking to greatly expand its use of cryptocurrency as it aims to respond to the demands of donors and better support companies around the world in their fight against the effects of Covid-19.

03 July 2020

News/regulation

Tisa selects Atos for MiFID II blockchain utility for asset management industry

Tisa, the UK’s cross-industry financial services membership body, has called in Atos to build a European MiFID II blockchain utility for the asset management industry.

03 July 2020

Company update/payments

Currencycloud to process cross-border payments on RippleNet

Currencycloud, the global leader in providing embedded B2B cross-border payments for platforms of the future, today announced a partnership with Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments.

02 July 2020

News/crypto

Digital asset security outfit Curv raises $23 million

Institutional-grade blockchain security app Curv has raised raised $23M in Series A funding with investment from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Team8 and Digital Garage Lab Fund.

01 July 2020

News/sustainable

More maturity needed from AI, DLT and IoT to power sustainable finance data

The executive director of Green Digital Finance Alliance, a partnership between Ant Financial and the UN Environment Programme, has told Finextra Research about the mixed picture in being able to harness new technology to collect and tap into the data required to drive investment for sustainable goals.

30 June 2020

News/markets

ASX to delay Chess replacement system by a year

The Australia Securities Exchange is to delay the roll out of its post-trade blockchain platform by a year, citing the global Covid pandemic and operational load on market participants.

30 June 2020

Company update/covid-19

Billon wins UK grant to develop Covid-19 training and immunity certificates on distributed ledger

Billon Group received a £50,000 grant in the Fast Start Competition by Innovate UK to build a distributed ledger platform to store COVID-19 related certificates to support workers’ safe return to the workplace.

26 June 2020

Company update/people

Blockchain Association Singapore to buiild talent pipeline through MoU with banking union

Blockchain Association Singapore (BAS) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Banking and Financial Services Union (BFSU) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to grow the blockchain professionals in Singapore and build a sustainable pipeline of talents to bolster the blockchain ecosystem.

26 June 2020

News/markets

Nasdaq unveils Marketplace Services Platform

Nasdaq has launched Marketplace Services Platform, making it easy to exchange assets, services and information across market ecosystems.

24 June 2020

News/payments

SIA achieves blockchain interoperability goal with Quant Network

Banking users of SIA's private blockchain infrastructure will be able to link up with other distributed ledgers following successful testing of interoperability via Quant Network's Overledger technology.

24 June 2020

Company update/crypto

Celsius secures $10M equity raise with Tether as lead investor

Celsius Network Limited (“Celsius”) is excited to announce that Tether International Limited (“Tether International”), a member of the Tether group of companies, the largest stablecoin issuer with a 90% market share, is the lead investor in Celsius’ first equity round. Celsius is the UK operating company in the Celsius group of companies.

22 June 2020

News/payments

Thai payments firm Synqa raises $80m

Thai fintech startup Synqa (formerly called Omise) has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round led by SCB 10X and Sparx Group.

22 June 2020

News/crypto

Thai central bank preps CBDC-based prototype for businesses payments

The Bank of Thailand is building a prototype of a payment system for businesses using Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

18 June 2020

Company update/regulation

L3COS submits blockchain proposal to the Bank of England

L3COS, the only known blockchain platform for the regulated digitalization of economies, today submitted its proposal to the Bank of England to build the world’s first regulated blockchain-based operating system.

12 June 2020

News/payments

Blockchain-powered e-wallet Fincy receives $11 million capital boost

Fincy, a multi-currency money management app that launched in Cambodia last year, has received an $11 million capital injection from parent company GBCI to expand its network across South East Asia.

12 June 2020

News/crypto

Fnality adviser: Wholesale CBDCs need more than just a central bank

Olaf Ransome, industry solutions adviser for Fnality, has shed light on the feasibility of wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), saying that the requirements of launching one are not within central banks’ specialisms.

12 June 2020

Company update/payments

Apifiny launches global settlement network

Apifiny, a San Francisco-based global value transfer network, today announced the official debut of Roxe, the first settlement network designed to enable instant global clearing and settlement of payments and remittances, traditional assets, and digital assets.

09 June 2020