Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

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

Company update/Blockchain

Security token trading platform Cezex preps Asia launch

Asia Blockchain and Crypto Association ("ABACA") is pleased to announce the launch of CEZEX, Asia's first security token trading platform, by 28 January 2019.

14 January 2019

News/Blockchain

Monerium raises $2m seed round to issue e-money on blockchain

Monerium, an Icelandic startup planning to issue asset-backed, redeemable, and regulated e-money on blockchains through a licensed institution, has raised $2 million in a seed funding round.

14 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

CEZEX and Hydra X team up for digital trading platform

Singapore-headquartered Hydra X, a next-generation trading technology provider, announced a partnership with leading Asian digital asset exchange, CEZEX

11 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Seed CX targets institutional investors with digital asset wallet launch

The digital asset market, long dominated by individual retail traders, is attracting the interest and participation of institutional investors.

11 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Concordium Foundation recruits former Nasdaq vice chairman

Concordium Foundation, the Swiss non-profit behind the Concordium Network blockchain, announces the addition of two new team members: Former Vice Chairman of NASDAQ Europe Hans-Ole Jochumsen to the advisory board, and renowned cryptographer Ivan Damgård as Cryptography Lead on Concordium’s Core Science Team.

10 January 2019

News/Blockchain

Standard Chartered appoints global digital head

British bank Standard Chartered (SC) has hired Martijn De Jong as the global head of its Digital Channels & Data division.

10 January 2019

News/Blockchain

Alipay powers blockchain remittances for Pakistani bank

Pakistan's Telenor Microfinance Bank has introduced a cross-border remittance service powered by blockchain technology from China's Ant Financial.

09 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Ripple XRP comes to Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), an institutional-grade, regulated and insured token sale platform and digital asset exchange, has today added Ripple (XRP) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX), a state-of-the-art exchange created with the high expectations of professional crypto-traders in mind.

09 January 2019

News/Blockchain

Investment Association opens second fintech cohort

The trade body for the UK's fund management industry, the Investment Association (IA), has extended its fintech accelerator initiative with the launch of a second cohort.

09 January 2019

News/payments

Central banks proceeding with caution on own digital currencies

Most central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) but hardly any are at the pilot stage and even fewer see issuance as likely in the short or medium term, according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey.

09 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

RippleNet hits 200 customers mark

Ripple, provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced today that 13 new financial institutions have signed up for the company’s payment network, RippleNet.

08 January 2019

News/Blockchain

New York to form cryptocurrency task force

New York State is to set up a cryptocurrency task force to study how to properly regulate, define and use alternative digital currencies and the technology that underpins them, blockchain.

04 January 2019

Company update/Blockchain

Lateral Payments to embed Nuggets decentralised ID into payments rail

Nuggets, the blockchain-powered decentralised digital identity and payments company has today announced a key partnership with Lateral Payment Solutions, who will integrate the award-winning interface into their globally connected payment platform, to deliver next generation innovative technology to their merchants.

03 January 2019

News/Blockchain

JPMorgan recruits for blockchain delivery manager

JPMorgan is advertising for a blockchain delivery manager, to develop and execute a "comprehensive distributed ledger technology strategy" for the Corporate and Investment Bank.

03 January 2019

News/Blockchain

DX.Exchange prepares for live launch of tokenised stock trading

Estonian cryptocurrency exchange DX.Exchange is preparing to launch a service matching tradable tokens to a limited number of big ticket stocks traded over Nasdaq.

03 January 2019