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Taurus and Aktionariat join forces for tokenisation

Swiss equity token specialist Aktionariat AG and securities firm Taurus SA today announced a partnership.

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SBI Digital Markets and 21X collaborate on digital assets

21X - a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based market infrastructure for tokenized securities, which has applied for a license to operate a DLT trading and settlement system (DLT TSS) under the European Union’s DLT regime (DLTR) - has today announced a ground-breaking strategic partnership, with SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM), based in Singapore and a subsidiary of Japan's largest online financial services group, SBI Holdings.

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Assetera picks Polygon to power blockchain-based platform

Assetera, one of the first regulated capital markets for investing and trading of blockchain-based financial instruments in the EU/EEA, today announced it has selected Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain to power the blockchain-based platform for compliant secondary market transactions of Real-World Assets (RWAs).

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Soc Gen strikes digital assets partnership

French bank Societe Generale has announced a collaboration with crypto custodian and broker Bitpanda designed to accelerate the adoption of digital assets.

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21X and Apex Group partner for tokenisation

21X – which will be the first Distribution Ledger Technology (DLT) exchange for European Securities Market Authority (ESMA)-regulated trading and settlement of tokenized securities - and Apex Group - the global provider of financial services – today announced a ground-breaking strategic partnership that will allow Apex Group’s customers to list tokenized securities on the first-of-its-kind exchange, 21X.

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DTCC and Digital Asset pilot collateral and margin optimisation through tokenisation

Digital Asset, a leading provider of blockchain solutions, in collaboration with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), today announced the results of the U.S. Treasury (UST) Collateral Network Pilot, an initiative focused on leveraging DLT applications to support market connectivity across the collateral management lifecycle to enhance mobility, liquidity and transactional efficiency of tokenized assets.

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PayPal uses stablecoin to invest in blockchain risk management startup

PayPal has used its own stablecoin to make an additional investment in blockchain risk management specialist Chaos Labs.

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CIFDAQ appoints Muthuswamy Iyer as chief compliance officer

CIFDAQ, a leading blockchain ecosystem company, proudly announces the appointment of Muthuswamy Iyer as its Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). With an impressive career spanning over 25 years mainly in the securities market and Web3/ blockchain sectors, which include pivotal roles at WazirX, Edelweiss Broking Ltd, Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, Angel Broking Ltd and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, Muthuswamy brings extensive experience in regulatory compliance, adherence to guidelines under PMLA to his new position at CIFDAQ.

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Visa and dtcpay team on crypto-to-fiat card

Singapore's dtcpay is teaming up with Visa on a card that enables ultra high net worth individuals to convert their digital currencies such as stablecoins into fiat at real-time rates.

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Google Cloud ships Blockchain RPC service for Web3 developers

Building on our commitment to support Web3 developers, Google Cloud today announced the launch of our new Blockchain RPC (Remote Procedure Call) service.

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Platonic names Altin Hoxha CTO

Platonic, a company empowering global financial institutions through decentralized common market infrastructure today announced the appointment of Altin Hoxha as its Chief Technology Officer.

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Ownera and Fnality partner to interconnect digital money to the toeknisation market

Ownera, a leading provider of tokenisation interoperability networks based on the open FinP2P protocol, and Fnality, a pioneering financial market infrastructure bringing together the safety and institutional quality of central bank money with the functionality and resilience of blockchain technology, have announced a strategic partnership.

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UK banks hail Regulated Liability Network experiments

The UK's biggest banks have completed the experimentation phase of a Regulated Liability Network, claiming a number of benefits that the financial market infrastructure for programmable money operating on a multi-bank shared ledger could bring.

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BIS signs up more Project Agora participants

More than 40 private sector financial firms, convened by the Institute of International Finance, will join the Bank for International Settlements and a group of leading central banks in Project Agorá to explore how tokenisation can enhance wholesale cross-border payments.

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Tier 1 Canadian bank implments DL-based repo platform from Broadridge

Expanding its network across the global repo market, Global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), today announced that a Tier-1 Canadian Bank has implemented its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform for High-Quality Liquid Asset (HQLA) treasury securities management.

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Janus Henderson partners with Anemoy and Centrifuge on its first tokenised fund

Janus Henderson Investors is pleased to announce that it will be entering into an exciting new strategic partnership with Anemoy Limited and Centrifuge to manage Anemoy’s Liquid Treasury Fund (“LTF”), a fully on-chain, tokenized fund issued on Centrifuge’s public blockchain that provides investors with direct access to short-term US Treasury bills.

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Northern Trust launches blockchain-based carbon credit ecosystem

Asset servicer Northern Trust has launched a blockchain-based platform which enables institutional buyers to digitally access carbon credits.

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Coincover supports regulatory compliance for Canadian crypto exchanges in new partnerships

Coincover, the blockchain protection company, today announces partnerships with two of Canada’s leading crypto trading platforms, VirgoCX and Netcoins. The partnerships will aim to provide the best-in-class security for customer assets.

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Japanese banks pilot stablecoin-based cross-border payments

Japanese banks MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho are participating in a pilot using stablecoins and the Swift network for cross-border payments.

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Brazil preps new round of CBDC pilots

Google, Visa and Nubank are among the big names selected to take part on the second round pilots for Brazil's Drex CBDC project.