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News/crypto
Visa has teamed up with blockchain data provider Allium Labs to build a dashboard that helps people make sense of stablecoin activity.
26 April 2024
News/payments
The UK's biggest banks are pushing ahead with the experimentation phase of a Regulated Liability Network, a financial market infrastructure for programmable money operating on a multi-bank shared ledger.
16 April 2024
Hong Kong's financial regulator is poised to give the green light to the first batch of bitcoin spot ETFs.
11 April 2024
The global insurance industry is turning its attention to the risks posed by cryptocurrencies and digital assets, judging by recent product announcements.
10 April 2024
The European Central Bank has put together a host of participants for exploratory work on the use of distributed ledger technology to settle wholesale transactions in central bank money.
09 April 2024
Crypto and blockchain giant Ripple is launching its own dollar-pegged stablecoin.
04 April 2024
News/regulation
UK regulators are inviting feedback on draft guidance for firms looking to enter the country's new Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS).
A collection of seven central banks are working with the Bank for International Settlements to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments.
The US government has imposed sanctions on 13 fintechs for offering crypto-based services to Russian firms looking to evade the economic restrictions in place since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
26 March 2024
News/wholesale
Post-trade group Euroclear has acquired a stake in Iznes, a pan-European, blockchain-based network within the asset management market.
25 March 2024
News/predictions
2023 saw a 94% decline in funding for Irish fintechs, according to recently published research.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has taken its first step into the world of tokenisation.
21 March 2024
News/startups
African blockchain payment network, Zone, has raised $8.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by VC firms Flourish Ventures and TLcom Capital.
18 March 2024
News/markets
A host of major financial players, including Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon, have taken part in a pilot of Digital Asset's Canton Network blockchain platform for tokenised assets.
12 March 2024
Rabobank has completed a series of pilots to execute more than €2 billion in commercial paper transactions on blockchain platform Ubermorgen.
29 February 2024
Lloyds has become the first UK bank to join the WaveBL electronic trade documentation platform, meaning its clients can transfer blockchain-based Bills of Lading across a network of members in 136 countries.
26 February 2024
Citi has joined forces with Wellington Management and WisdomTree to explore the tokenisation of private markets.
14 February 2024
UBS has launched Hong Kong’s first investment-grade tokenized warrant on the Ethereum public blockchain network.
08 February 2024
Distributed Ledger Technology-based regtech docStribute has raised £820,000 from a gaggle of angels in a pre-Series A funding round.
News/crime
Mandatory reimbursement for victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams came into full effect under the Payments System Regulator (PSR) at the end of last year.
26 January 2024
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