Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

PayPal stablecoin comes to Solana blockchain

PayPal's PYUSD is now available on the Solana blockchain in a move that the company says will make its stablecoin faster and cheaper to use.

30 May 2024

Company update/payments

Paystand appoints Allison Grieb chief sales officer

Paystand, the global leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments, today announces the appointment of Allison Grieb as chief sales officer. Grieb brings her years of sales roles at high-growth tech companies to the new position.

28 May 2024

Company update/crypto

Archax integrates Fireblocks To expand digital asset custody service

Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian, today announced it has expanded its custody service by integrating Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for building blockchain applications and managing digital asset operations, and is using the Fireblocks Network, an enterprise-grade digital asset transfer platform for rapid digital asset transactions and dynamic payment workflows.

28 May 2024

News/markets

Pursuit of faster settlement times via DLT will hit market quality

Adopting distributed ledger technology in the pursuit of faster settlement times could hit liquidity and increase transaction costs, warns research from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

23 May 2024

News/startups

Mastercard picks new batch of crypto and blockchain Start Path firms

Mastercard has welcomed five new firms to its Start Path startup programme specifically for firms in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.

17 May 2024

Company update/markets

DTCC leads fund tokenisation pilot

As a trusted Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) and partner to financial market participants for over 50 years, DTCC is well positioned to support the industry’s ongoing exploration of digital assets and their application in financial services.

16 May 2024

News/payments

Standard Chartered brings blockchain to payments with Partior

Standard Chartered is the first Euro settlement bank to go live on Partior, the global unified ledger market infrastructure, integrating blockchain innovation directly into the bank’s payment systems

16 May 2024

News/sustainable

Mastercard and Standard Chartered pilot tokenised deposits

Mastercard has teamed up with Standard Chartered on a proof-of-concept pilot exploring tokenised deposits and tokenised carbon credits.

16 May 2024

News/crypto

Broadridge to offer JPM Coin as settlement mechanism for DLR platform

JP Morgan has struck a deal to offer its JPM Coin digital token as a settlement mechanism for Broadridge's DLR (Distributed Ledger Repo) platform.

14 May 2024

News/payments

ECB conducts first DLT trials for wholesale central bank money settlement

The Eurosystem has begun the first of a series of trials to test the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money.

14 May 2024

News/payments

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.

14 May 2024

Company update/retail

DocStribute secures Hinckley & Rugby Building Society as a new customer

docStribute, a leading UK RegTech (Regulation Technology) company specialising in regulated document distribution solutions, is excited to announce its strategic partnership with Hinckley & Rugby Building Society.

13 May 2024

News/markets

US FS giants explore multi-asset settlement using share ledger tech

A host of major US financial services firms - including Citi, JP Morgan, and Visa - are taking part in a Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) proof-of-concept that will explore multi-asset settlement using shared ledger technology.

09 May 2024

News/wealth

Emirates NBD's Liv explores real-world asset tokenisation

Emirates NBD's digital offshoot Liv is working with B2B alternative asset solutions provider Ctrl Alt to explore the tokenisation of real-world assets.

08 May 2024

Company update/crypto

Emirates NBD adds Chainalysis as Digital Asset Lab council member

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region, has announced Chainalysis as a key council member of the Digital Asset Lab.

06 May 2024

News/crypto

Blockchain researchers use AI to spot Bitcoin money laundering

Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have used AI to detect money laundering on the Bitcoin blockchain.

02 May 2024

News/crypto

Revolut vets launch crypto exchange

A group of former Revolut staffers have raised $6.5 million for hybrid cryptocurrency exchange X10.

30 April 2024

News/wholesale

Ripple enters supply chain finance venture with SBI Group and HashKey DX

Ripple is joining forces with SBI Group and HashKey DX to bring XRPL-powered supply chain finance to Japan.

30 April 2024

News/crypto

Visa develops dashboard to make sense of stablecoin activity

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

Company update/markets

Abu Dhabi Global Market and Hacken bid to set benchmarks for blockchain security

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre of the UAE’s capital, and Hacken, a global leader in blockchain security auditing, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaboratively set new benchmarks for blockchain security and compliance.

24 April 2024