Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

BNP Paribas preps for post-trade DLT with smart contract apps

BNP Paribas Securities Services is working with Digital Asset to design a number of real-time trade and settlement apps using smart contracts

15 September 2020

Company update/payments

StanChar, bKash and Valyou partner for blockchain remittance in Bangladesh

Standard Chartered Bank, in partnership with bKash, the largest mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, and Valyou, Malaysia’s leading digital remittance provider, today announced the launch of the first blockchain-based cross-border remittance service in Bangladesh, facilitating instant transfers from Malaysia.

11 September 2020

Company update/crypto

ETC Labs partners Chainalysis

Part of our mission at ETC labs is to address fundamental challenges in developing and deploying blockchain technology and to continuously bring resources and solutions to the blockchain ecosystem.

09 September 2020

News/crypto

Mastercard launches CBDC testing platform for central banks

Mastercard has built a virtual testing platform to help central banks assess and explore national digital currencies.

09 September 2020

Company update/payments

Coro launches payments app using Hashgraph distributed ledger tech

Coro Global Inc. (OTCQB: CGLO) today announced it has become the first company to formally license Hashgraph’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) to run its payment app CORO, which allows customers to easily exchange, send and save gold as well as U.S. dollars.

02 September 2020

News/payments

Oz lenders ready to roll out bank guarantee blockchain platform to general public

ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, IBM and Scentre Group are to formally launch a blockchain-based platform that reduces the time to issue a bank guarantee from one month to one day.

01 September 2020

News/markets

SGX issues first digital bond

Singapore Exchange (SGX), working together with HSBC Singapore and Temasek, has completed its first pilot digital bond issuance on behalf of Olam International.

01 September 2020

Company update/crypto

Archax to create new product range with Algorand

Archax today announced that it has partnered with leading blockchain provider Algorand to work on new innovative smart financial products that will trade on its FCA regulated exchange.

27 August 2020

News/wholesale

ConsenSys acquires Quorum blockchain from JP Morgan

ConsenSys has acquired Quorum, the enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain developed by JP Morgan, in a deal that also sees the bank make a strategic investment in the software house.

25 August 2020

Company update/people

Daniel Diemers appointed to Ficas board

FiCAS, the swiss-based crypto investment management boutique, has announced the appointment of Dr. Daniel Diemers, former Financial Services Partner at PwC Strategy& and former PwC Head of Blockchain for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, as a new member of its Board of Directors.

25 August 2020

News/crypto

Billon lands £2 million in fresh funding

Billon, the British/Polish fintech which uses distributed ledger technology to tokenise national currencies, has raised £2 million in funding with support from the UK Government's Future Fund Scheme.

25 August 2020

Company update/markets

Boerse Stuttgart Group develops blockchain financing method for industrial capital goods

In a joint basic research project with the Bosch research team “Economy of Things”, Daimler Mobility and technology partner 51nodes, Boerse Stuttgart Group has developed a flexible method for financing industrial capital goods on a blockchain basis.

24 August 2020

News/crypto

Exberry and Digital Asset to launch token-based exchange-trading infrastructure

Exchange technology outfit Exberry has formed a partnership with Digital Asset to provide businesses with a ready-to-go, end-to-end infrastructure for the trading of virtual assets.

20 August 2020

Company update/crypto

Institutional-grade digital asset exchange Archax secures FCA authorisation

Archax today announced becoming the first ever FCA regulated digital securities exchange and custodian in the UK.

19 August 2020

Company update/crypto

Elliptic extends Binance partnership

Elliptic, the global leader in cryptoasset risk management solutions, today announced that it will now monitor Binance Chain and its native cryptoasset BNB, which averages USD 250 million in daily trading volume.

18 August 2020

News/crypto

Fed partners MIT on 'hypothetical' digital currency

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a "hypothetical" digital currency platform.

18 August 2020

News/crypto

DBS: Central banks 'troubled and intrigued' by expansion in digital currency

DBS describes the growth of digital currency as both fascinating and daunting in a new research paper, 'Digital Currencies: Public and Private, Present and Future'.

17 August 2020

Company update/wholesale

Envoy Group appoints new advisors

Envoy Group has appointed three new advisors to its team as it approaches the pilot phase of its trade finance platform and the launch of the NVOY token. Each advisor comes from the world of commercial banking or a Fortune 100 company, bringing valuable experience and energy with them.

17 August 2020

News/markets

BondEvalue conducts first blockchain-based bond trade for the masses

Singapore-based fintech BondEvalue has conducted the first trades on its blockchain-based debt trading platform, providing retail investors with access to fractional ownership of bonds in smaller denominations of $1000.

12 August 2020

News/people

Goldman puts McDermott in charge of digital assets team

Goldman Sachs is stepping up its efforts in the crypto and blockchain space, making Mathew McDermott, a managing director at the bank, global head of digital assets and giving him the green light to double his team's headcount, according to CNBC.

07 August 2020