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Ex-CFTC chair launches Digital Dollar Foundation

Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chair Chris Giancarlo is teaming up with Accenture to explore the creation of a US central bank digital currency (CBDC).

17 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Blockchain-based real estate firm makes token-based purchase

Real estate investment company BrickMark has made a record-breaking blockchain-powered investment in the heart of Zurich's central business district.

17 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Ant Financial preps huge fintech conference

China's Ant Financial is flexing its muscles by organising a massive fintech conference in Shanghai this April.

15 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

JPMorgan blockchain spin-off Kadena solves bitcoin scaling and Ethereum security issues

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of JP Morgan's Blockchain Center for Excellence, has announced the full launch of its public blockchain.

15 January 2020

Company update/crypto

Blockchain.com releases API for crypto traders

Blockchain.com, the leading provider of cryptocurrency products including the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has launched a trading API for cryptocurrency traders to access the deep liquidity and fastest matching engine in crypto on the Blockchain.com Exchange using automated trading algorithms.

14 January 2020

News/markets

Digital asset startup iStox raises $5 million ahead of live launch

Singapore-based digital asset trading and custody startup iStox has raised $5 million from South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management.

14 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Thai blockchain startup Lightnet raises US$31.2m

Lightnet, a Bangkok-based startup using blockchain technology to shake up the Asian remittance market, has raised US$31.2 million in a funding round led by regional heavyweight United Overseas Bank.

10 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Standard Chartered invests in Chinese supply chain finance platform Linklogis

Standard Chartered has made a strategic investment in Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

10 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

Blockchain startup Securrency raises $17.65 million Series A

Securrency, Inc., a leading developer of institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology, today announced Series A funding of $17.65 million from a leading financial services company, and venture firms focused on financial market infrastructure technology.

07 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Rabobank collaborates on blockchain-based app for coffee drinkers with IBM

Rabobank has collaborated with IBM on the development of an application allowing consumers to support the farmers who grow the beans that make their cups of coffee.

07 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

CaixaBank implements we.trade blockchain platform

CaixaBank has added the digital trade platform we.trade to its service catalogue for companies.

03 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

SIA launches national securities blockchcain project

Experimentation of the national project will start in January 2020, promoted by CeTIF, SIA and Reply, in collaboration with Bank of Italy and IVASS, to digitize the management of sureties using blockchain technology.

30 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Finextra's year in review

With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Ripple secures $200 million in new funding

Payments disruptor Ripple has scored $200 million in Series C financing, in a round led by Tetragon with participation from SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures.

20 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Japan's SBI Group to invests in Boerse Stuttgart's digital assets business

Japan's SBI Group is to invest in Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange and Digital Ventures subsidiary.

20 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Spanish banks to test programmable payments for smart contracts

Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank have initiated a proof-of-concept test to deploy an interbank Smart Payments Platform that would enable the execution of payments in blockchain networks.

20 December 2019

Company update/crypto

Blockchain.com opens Faster Payments gateway

Blockchain.com, the first and largest cryptocurrency company headquartered in England, has launched a gateway for users to deposit and withdraw British Pounds (GBP) through the UK’s Faster Payments Service (FPS).

19 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.

18 December 2019

News/Blockchain

SIX acquires stake in securities token issuer daura

SIX has acquired a stake in token securities issuer daura as it prepares for the live launch next year of its digital asset exchange SDX.

18 December 2019

News/Blockchain

ECB tackles anonymity and AML compliance in digital currency issuance

New research from the European Central Bank shows that it is possible to build a simplified payment system for central bank digital currencies, while safeguarding users’ privacy for low-value transactions and ensuring that higher-value transfers are subject to anti-money laundering checks.

17 December 2019