Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

LiquidShare and Consensys team up for post-trade blockchain venture

LiquidShare today announced that its European post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) has entered into a partnership with ConsenSys’ PegaSys team.

13 May 2019

News/ai

US Congress launches fintech and AI task forces

The US House of Representative is launching task forces looking into fintech and artificial intelligence in financial services.

10 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Nordea launches blockchain-based trading platform for SMEs

Nordea has launched a blockchain-based platform designed to make it easier for SMEs to trade with other companies in Europe.

10 May 2019

News/devops

Microsoft Build 2019: What stands out for fintech developers?

Thousands of developers, software engineers and students gathered at Microsoft Build 2019 to learn about the latest advances across technologies critical to the future of banking, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things and Mixed Reality for cloud or edge computing.

10 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Sterling Trading Tech and Voyager team on digital asset trading

Sterling Trading Tech (STT), an innovative leader of professional trading technology solutions, and Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd ("Voyager") (TSXV.VYGR, Pink Sheets:VYGVF, Deutsche Bourse:UCD2.F), through its subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, a licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto-assets, today announced that they have engaged in a strategic partnership to offer digital asset trading capabilities to institutional and retail traders through the STT platforms.

09 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Hedera Hashgraph and Chainlink team up

Today, Hedera Hashgraph and Chainlink announced they will collaborate to integrate Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network with Hedera’s enterprise-grade distributed public ledger.

09 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Facebook chooses London for WhatsApp payments push

Facebook has chosen London as the base for a new team dedicated to bringing payments to its WhatsApp messaging service.

08 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

TradAir integrates with Seed CX's settlement services for digital asset transactions

Seed CX, the leading institutional trading and settlement infrastructure for digital assets, today announced a partnership with TradAir, the global provider of trading technology solutions for banks, brokers, prime of primes and regulated marketplaces.

08 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Voltron consortium grows to over 50 banks and corporates

The blockchain-based trade finance coalition Voltron has swelled to over 50 banks and corporates following the completion of trials involving the simulation of multiple digital Letter of Credit transactions across 27 countries on six continents.

08 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

RBI joins Marco Polo network

Raiffeisen Bank International announces today that it joins Marco Polo for evaluating and piloting the platform’s distributed ledger technology.

08 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BitPay appoints Glen Braganza CFO

BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced it has hired Glen Braganza as its Chief Financial Officer to help support the business through its next phase as the company grows into a global financial organization.

07 May 2019

Company update/devops

Waves integrates Blockpass KYC Connect

Waves, a major blockchain company and Web 3.0 pioneer, is partnering with Blockpass, KYC provider and identity management system, to bring KYC Connect – an easy and transparent KYC instrument for developers and users – to the Waves Platform.

07 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Wipro develops prototype for central bank digital currency initiative in Thailand

Wipro is working with the Bank of Thailand and eight of the nation's largest banks to develop a blockchain-based interbank payment system using digital tokens.

07 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Ant Financial joins $10 million funding round in Qedit

Ant Financial has participated in a $10 million fund raise for blockchain-based data privacy startup Qedit.

07 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Institutions upping investments in digital assets - Fidelity

Institutional investors are finding appeal in digital assets and many are looking to invest more in digital assets over the next five years, according to new research from Fidelity Investments.

07 May 2019

News/devops

ASX opens customer development centre for blockchain settlement system

The Australian Securities Exchange has moved closer to its goal of rolling out a blockchain-based settlement system with the opening of a new Customer Development Environment for users to test and interact with the new system.

07 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Bond.One uses new Azure Blockchain Service to deploy infrastructure for debt capital markets

Bond.One, a company building the digital infrastructure for fixed income markets, today announced that it is one of the inaugural users of the new Microsoft Azure Blockchain Service.

06 May 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Ria Money Transfer joins RippleNet

Ria Money Transfer, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, has joined RippleNet to enable instant, blockchain-powered global payments.

03 May 2019

News/Blockchain

Facebook in talks with banks and payment processors over stablecoin launch

Facebook has reportedly met with Visa, Mastercard and a number of bulge-bracket financial institutions in the hope of securing a $1 billion investment for its secretive cryptocurrency project,

03 May 2019

News/Blockchain

JPMorgan Quorum to be available over Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is to position JPMorgan's private version of ethereum, Quorum, as the cornerstone of its cloud-based enterprise blockchain offering to customers.

03 May 2019