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CaixaBank implements we.trade blockchain platform

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

03 January 2020

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

News/crypto

Swedish central bank taps Accenture for e-krona pilot

Sweden's central bank is set to sign a deal with Accenture to develop a digital currency, dubbed the e-krona, in a test environment.

13 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Credit unions pilot blockchain-based digital ID system

Several US credit unions have begun piloting the MyCUID digital identity service from blockchain outfit CULedger.

13 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Digital Asset raises $35m

Digital Asset, the creators of the open source DAML smart contract language, announced today that it has raised more than $35 million in Series C funding from new and existing investors.

11 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Diginex joins Microsoft ScaleUp programme

Diginex, a blockchain financial services and technology company, has been selected as part of the Microsoft ScaleUp program. This exclusive 2-year program is designed for high-growth companies to leverage Microsoft’s expertise, scale their businesses and further deliver enterprise value to their clients.

11 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BME launches blockchain-based collateral pledge management service

BME has successfully launched the process for the digitisation of the certification of collateral pledge using Blockchain technology, eliminating the need to use and exchange physical certificates.

11 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Digital Debt Capital Markets selects R3 Corda Enterprise platform

Digital Debt Capital Markets (“DDCM” or agora) today announces it has selected enterprise software firm R3 to provide the underlying blockchain technology for DDCM’s agora platform.

11 December 2019

News/Blockchain

Lithuanian central bank urges peers to join digital currency goldrush

The Bank of Lithuania is stepping up its research into the implications of offering a central bank digital currency, publishing a new research paper highlighting CBDC design choices as well as monetary policy and financial stability implications.

10 December 2019

News/crypto

Saga launches global, stabilised digital currency

Saga, a global, democratic, stabilised, non-anonymous digital currency, is launching today in an effort to build towards "worldwide money".

10 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Bank of Lithuania takes coin collecting into the digital age

The world‘s first blockchain-based digital collector coin created by the Bank of Lithuania is dedicated to the 16 February 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania and its 20 signatories. The coin is expected to be issued in spring 2020.

09 December 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Sekunjalo and China's Ultrain partner to build new African payment infrastructure

Diversified investment group, Sekunjalo Investment Holdings (Sekunjalo), has announced it has partnered with Chinese public Blockchain leader, Ultrain Technology Limited (Ultrain), to develop a pan-African open Blockchain business ecosystem - The African Chain 3.0.

09 December 2019