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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
News/wholesale
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
News/crypto
UBS has launched Hong Kong’s first investment-grade tokenized warrant on the Ethereum public blockchain network.
08 February 2024
News/regulation
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
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Future Fintech CEO Shanchun Huang with fraud for failing to share his ownership and transactions of Future Fintech stock shortly before he was appointed as CEO.
12 January 2024
Nomura’s Laser Digital and fintech hub the WebN group are set to launch Libre, a tokenization platform for the asset management industry.
10 January 2024
Distributed ledger technology firm R3 has joined PwC and Fireblocks as a council member of the Digital Asset Lab, a testing ground for new financial technologies and digital assets established by Emirates NBD.
15 December 2023
News/payments
Fnality, the international consortium of global banks focused on building a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenised assets and marketplaces, has conducted its first live transactions.
14 December 2023
Deutsche Bank-backed Taurus is to tokenize the SME credit portfolio of Zurich-based Teylor, providing investors access to SME credit opportunities.
The European Central Bank is inviting expressions of interest from financial market stakeholders in participating in trials of new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement.
News/people
Ripple has partnered with leading universities across Europe for its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) program to catalyse academic research in blockchain development and encourage a new generation to engage in crypto innovation.
13 December 2023
News/sustainable
Exchange operator Nasdaq has launched technology that securely digitises the issuance, settlement, and custody of carbon credits.
30 November 2023
Private cryptocurrencies have failed the basic test of digital money and are likely to be in decline in the near future
29 November 2023
News/wealth
Investment funds authorised in the UK may now be able to progress their tokenisation strategies following the publication of the first report from a government-backed industry working group.
23 November 2023
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is planning to turn to a third party to replace its ageing clearing and settlement system.
21 November 2023
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