Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Nasdaq and Citi invest in blockchain outfit Symbiont

Symbiont, a startup working to bring blockchain technology to capital markets, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Nasdaq Ventures and joined by Citi.

23 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Seed CX kicks off spot trading on digital assets

Institutional investors who have may have held back from trading digital assets due to concerns about regulatory oversight, technical reliability and conflicts of interest can now move forward with confidence, with today’s announcement that spot trading is now live on Seed CX.

23 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Aprio joins Wall Street Blockchain Alliance

The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), an industry leading non-profit trade association with a mission to guide and promote comprehensive adoption of blockchain technology across global markets, is proud to announce that Aprio, LLP, has joined the organization as a corporate member.

23 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Token Economy Association teams up with Singapore government-backed blockchain accelerator

Token Economy Association (Singapore) (“TEA Singapore”) is pleased to announce the partnership with Tribe Accelerator, the first-of-its-kind government-backed blockchain accelerator, and part of TRIVE Ventures (“TRIVE”), a Southeast Asia focused Venture Capital (VC) firm based in Singapore.

23 January 2019

News/Blockchain

Digital Garage and Blockstream test yen-pegged stablecoin

Blockchain infrastructure outfit Blockstream is joining forces with Japanese tech player Digital Garage and FS firm Tokyo Tanshi on a new venture building bitcoin and blockchain tools for the Japanese institutional market, beginning with a yen-pegged stablecoin.

23 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

AlphaPoint appoints former R3 exec Scott Grayson head, enterprise sales

AlphaPoint, a global provider of asset digitization software, and of trading technology for licensed broker-dealers, ATS and exchange operators, announced Scott Grayson as its new SVP & Head of Enterprise Sales.

22 January 2019

News/Blockchain

ING signs five-year licencing deal with R3

ING has agreed a five-year deal with R3 for an unlimited number of Corda Enterprise licenses, with the aim of encouraging the adoption of CorDapps across the business.

22 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Global Blockchain Business Council adds Fidelity's Tom Jessop to board

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading association for the blockchain ecosystem, has appointed Tom Jessop, president of Fidelity Digital Assets℠ and head of Corporate Business Development at Fidelity Investments, to its board.

21 January 2019

News/regulation

Dutch authorities call for crypto exchange licensing regime

The Dutch central bank and financial services regulator say that the country must introduce a licensing regime for crypto exchanges and wallet providers in order to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing.

21 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Christian Noyer joins SETL board

SETL announces that Christian Noyer, former Governor of the Banque De France has joined the board of directors of SETL Development Ltd.

18 January 2019

Company update/payments

CoinGate and Surfshark smarten up cryptocurrency payments

Payment processing company CoinGate teamed up with a privacy service provider Surfshark for a pilot project of the long-anticipated Litecoin Lightning Network (LN) solution. Surfshark is the first company in the world to accept Litecoin payments via the Lightning Network during the test phase, which begins on 17 January 2019.

17 January 2019

News/Blockchain

ING joins group using blockchain to shake up mining and metals sector

Dutch banking giant ING has joined a consortium, including IBM and mining tech firm MineHub, that is looking to tap blockchain technology in the high-value global mining and metals supply chain.

17 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BitPay hits $1bn in 2018 transactions

BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced another record year along with key accomplishments and expansion of the payment processing platform for 2018 after more than seven years in business.

16 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

BitGo partners Genesis Global Trading

BitGo, Inc., the market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services, today announced that it has partnered with Genesis Global Trading, an industry pioneer and leader in over-the-counter digital currency trading, to provide clients with the ability to trade digital assets directly from BitGo custody.

16 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

R3 forms independent governing foundation for Corda Network

R3 has launched Corda Network, the underlying, open shared blockchain network linking participants using Corda.

16 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Gmex Fusion adds custodian capability

GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX), a provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade business and technology solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of ForumCustody and ForumWallet, part of the GMEX Fusion product suite, to include Digital Custodian and Vault capabilities.

16 January 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Gaining value added services from instant payments

Domenico Scaffidi, Business Development Director and Payments Pre-sales lead for Europe and Asia, Volante, speaks at NextGenBanking Nordics about what added value services financial institutions can gain from instant payments, what technological barriers there are to delivering new use cases for modernisation and where banks are today.

15 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

ICJ and Broadridge execute blockchain PoC for proxy voting in Japan

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), an S&P 500 company and global Fintech leader, and ICJ Inc., a joint venture of Broadridge and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE), have successfully conducted the first Proof of Concept (PoC) of blockchain-based proxy voting in Japan, using Quorum as the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT).

15 January 2019

News/Blockchain

HSBC uses DLT to settle $250bn of FX transactions

HSBC says its use of distributed ledger technology over the last year to settle more than three million foreign exchange transactions has proved a big hit.

15 January 2019

Company update/startups

Totle raises $1m to power DApp economy

Totle, the startup powering DApp economy growth by aggregating fragmented decentralized trading and exchange ecosystems, today announced a $1 million private funding round led by leading blockchain industry institutional investors Arrington XRP, NEO Global Capital (NGC), and Goren Helm Ventures.

14 January 2019