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Speech: FCA's Christoper Woolard on Facebook Libra and stablecoins

Last month, Facebook announced its plans for Libra, the stablecoin it is planning to launch in conjunction with a number of payment and tech firms.

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Euronext steps up digital asset play with stake in Tokeny

Euronext has spent EUR5 million to acquire a 23.5% stake in digital asset startup Tokeny Solutions.

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ABN Amro completes container logistics pilot on blockchain

ABN Amro has completed the first instantly financed, door-to-door transport of a container from a factory in Asia to the Netherlands on blockchain-based platform Deliver.

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Goldman Sachs could create digital coin

Goldman Sachs could follow JPMorgan Chase in creating a digital coin, CEO David Solomon has revealed in an interview in which he also dismissed the threat of tech giants such as Facebook moving beyond payments into deposits.

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Smart contracts outfit Clause seals $5.5 million Series A round

Clause, a leading provider of smart contracting technology, announces the close of a $5.5 million Series A round.

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Ethereum-powered TokenCard hits iOS App Store

If you’re looking to cut your ties to big banks and corporations, TokenCard, the first ever Ethereum-powered banking alternative is giving you the tools to do it.

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Crypto is back in fashion: Is the future of money tokenised?

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments and Business Development, Citi, speaks to Hannah Wallace, Finextra at Money 20/20 Europe about whether the future of money is tokenised, whether there is a global narrative with fintech innovation, where regulation fits in and how banks can successfully move with the times and coexist in harmony together.

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Facebook could move into credit - Calibra wallet chief

Facebook's digital currency and wallet could be just the beginning of a new assault on financial services by the tech giant, a senior exec says.

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Chainalysis names Michael Mosier chief technical counsel

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, has appointed Michael Mosier as Chief Technical Counsel.

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What DLT and Blockchain truly mean today.

Michel Rauchs, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Lead, CCAF, speaks to Hannah Wallace, Finextra at Money 20/20 Europe about the meaning of DLT today and how it has changed, the potential it holds and where regulation fits in.

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Blockchain private markets group iownit closes $4.5 million funding round

iownit Capital and Markets, Inc., a platform built to provide investment infrastructure for investors into privately held companies, today announced the closure of a round worth $4.5M, led by a group of private investors.

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Northern Trust transfers PE blockchain to Broadridge

Northern Trust is to transfer its inhouse developed blockchain platform for private equity firms to Broadridge, in an acknowledgement of the ongoing costs in upkeep and the need for an industry-neutral sales and marketing machine.

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SeedCX selects Corvil to analyse infrastructure performance

Corvil today announced it has been selected by leading digital asset exchange, Seed CX, to deliver the trusted and timely intelligence required to assure the performance and client experience of its robust service.

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JST Capital unveils digital asset suite

JST Capital (“the Company” or “JST”), a global financial services firm focused on solutions for digital assets, today announced that its full suite of offerings are available to institutional investors, blockchain companies, banks, and brokers in the digital assets ecosystem.

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Understanding the intricacies of blockchain

Lasse Meholm, Head of Blockchain & DLT Strategy - IT at DNB, speaks at Money2020 Europe about the use cases he's seeing with blockchain and DLT, what challenges financial institutions face when incorporating blockchain and what the best approach is around these obstacles.

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Nuggets names ex-Citi, Visa director Warfel as strategic director

Award-winning blockchain payments and identity platform Nuggets named payments veteran and blockchain advocate, Eric Warfel as its new Strategic Advisor today, as the company experiences increasing demand from banks and payment service providers for its innovative authentication platform which offers a compliant Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solution.

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Addressing identity, land-titling, and currency issues with blockchain

Sandra Ro, CEO, Global Blockchain Business Council, speaks at Money2020 Europe about the most exciting use cases we are seeing around blockchain, what social impact it is having globally, the importance of education, the role of government in this space and how political figures can also benefit and gain trust as a result of blockchain.

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Carney positive on Facebook's Libra; says BofE could open up balance sheet to new players

Facebook's new digital currency, Libra, could "substantially improve financial inclusion and dramatically lower the costs of domestic and cross border payments," Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said in a speech during which he also revealed the central bank could open up access to its balance sheet to new payment providers.

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Chainalysis rolls out compliance offering for Line's Bitbox digital asset exchange

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced the roll-out of its cryptocurrency compliance solution for Bitbox, the digital asset exchange operated by Line, the mobile messaging platform.

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Tatum unveils blockchain API platform

London based Blockchain company, Tatum Limited (“Tatum”), has launched a revolutionary and unique Blockchain API Platform.