DeFi

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Mansa launches trade finance and cross-border payments for emerging markets

Mansa, the pioneering decentralised finance (DeFi) fintech providing liquidity to multinational exports and cross-border payments for companies in emerging markets, today announced the launch of its first pool on Base.

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Deutsche Bank and Northern Trust publish study on 'The road to Institutional DeFi'

Deutsche Bank and Northern Trust have collaborated to produce an industry whitepaper “The road to institutional DeFi”.

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Kima bids to build a 'DeFi credit card’

Israeli startup Kima is running a project with Mastercard's FinSec Innovation Lab to connect decentralised finance (DeFi) applications with fiat systems.

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Paystand buys Teampay

Paystand, the global leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments, today announced the acquisition of Teampay, an industry-leading spend management software.

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EBAday 2024: The future of CBDCs, tokenised deposits and stablecoin adoption

Tokenised money is on the horizon in numerous countries. This week, the Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden announced that a discussion paper will be released in summer 2024 to draw on input from the private sector to complement the work being conducted on stablecoin regulation and retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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Reltime launches blockchain R&D centre in India

Reltime, a leader in Web3-based financial and digital services technology, is proud to announce the opening of a new research and development facility, ‘Reltime Research Lab Private Limited’, in Chennai, India.

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David Birch confirmed as EBAday 2024 challenge speaker

Exploring digital money, digital assets, digital identity and the future of banking, David G. W. Birch has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for one of the most compelling sessions at EBAday every year.

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Paymentology and Rain collaborate on Web3 payment service

Paymentology, a leading global issuer-processor, today announces its partnership with Rain, a leading corporate spend management platform that specialises in catering to international companies and companies in the digital asset and Web3 space.

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French fintech ditches remittances in favour of DeFi

Tempo France claims it is the the first fintech in the money transfers market to suspend classical remittances in order to focus exclusively on decentralised finance (DeFi).

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EBAday 2024: Calling early-stage startups to showcase products

The 19th edition of EBAday, the largest annual European event for payments and transaction banking, will return on 18th – 19th June 2024 at CCL in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Singularity raises $2.2m to help institutions access DeFi

Singularity, a startup developing a protocol to provide institutions with compliant and confidential access to DeFi, has raised $2.2 million.

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Luno includes more DeFi coins

Luno, South Africa’s largest crypto investment app, has added three new cryptocurrencies to invest in that are prominent in decentralised finance (DeFi).

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CFTC takes aim at ID discovery in DeFi

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is urging policymakers to address identity issues in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) operations.

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Iosco issues DeFi policy recommendations

International securities regulator Iosco has set out nine policy recommendations designed to address market integrity and investor protection concerns connected to decentralised finance (DeFi).

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COP28: Ethereum pre-Merge carbon emissions estimated to be 27.5m metric tonnes

Research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP) reveals that the Merge – the upgrade that switched the ETH consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work protocol to a proof-of-stake system – ensured that Ethereum now has a much lighter greenhouse gas footprint than other high carbon-emitting blockchains.

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Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

What’s happening at Binance? A 2023 timeline

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Ibanera launches digital transactions widget

Ibanera, a leading online fintech bank based in the US, is proud to unveil PORTL, a widget set to redefine the landscape of digital transactions.

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Spool DAO upgrades DeFi platform

Spool DAO, or Spool, the platform allowing institutions and users to build customizable risk-managed DeFi products, launches its V2 upgrade.

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Ex-Revolut leaders build digital wallet

A group of former Revolut, Coinbase and Spotify staffers have unveiled Zeal, a digital wallet for managing crypto and interacting with web3 and decentralised finance apps.

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Ousted OpenAI boss to work for Microsoft

Sam Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI, the developer of generative AI platform ChatGPT, has resurfaced at Microsoft just days after he was pushed out by the board of directors.