Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Hong Kong and Thai central banks report back on digital currency trials

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Thailand have completed a working prototype of a cross-border digital currency payment system.

22 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

Canadian FS players say digital transformation a top priority

According to a recent survey of Canadian financial services professionals by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500® Index, digital transformation is of critical importance to the future success of their firms.

21 January 2020

News/Blockchain

Estate agency platform Reapit joins DLT-based home-buying consortium

Reapit, the UK's largest estate agency platform, has joined the IPN Consortium, a gaggle of industry players developing a distributed ledger technology-based system that lets customers go through the entire home buying process through their mobile phones.

20 January 2020

News/Blockchain

MUFG appoints digital lead CEO

After just a year in the job, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group CEO Kanetsugu Mike is being replaced by the Japanese giant's digital chief Hironori Kamezawa.

17 January 2020

Company update/Blockchain

MUFG executes first transaction on blockchain network Komgo

MUFG Bank has successfully executed its first live digital transaction on komgo, a blockchain based commodity trade finance platform led by KomGo SA.

17 January 2020

News/crypto

Turkish banks switch on digital gold transfer network

Turkish banks have begun the transfer of a cryptocurrency representing physical units of gold via a blockchain platform developed by Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasban).

17 January 2020

News/Blockchain

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