Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Company update/crypto

BTSE launches crypto trading terminal

BTSE, a global digital asset exchange serving top crypto institutions and retail traders, has launched a new crypto trading terminal powered by Germany-based Margin.

19 July 2022

Company update/people

Prontoblock appoints CFO

Prontoblock, today announced the appointment of Kelley Millet as the company's Chief Financial Officer and Board Member, effective July 15, 2022.

19 July 2022

Company update/crypto

Orbital adds support for USDC on Solana

Orbital has added support for USDC, on the Solana layer 1 blockchain protocol, to its crypto-commerce payment processing solution.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Coinbase gets crypto service provider approval in Italy

Crypto firm Coinbase has been granted approval by Italy's financial regulator to operate as a crypto assets service provider.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Russian firm claims digital token first

Atomyze, a Russia-based blockchain firm, has launched what it claims to be the country's first digital token to be backed by palladium.

18 July 2022

News/crypto

Sustainable blockchain network 5ire secures $100 million Series A

5ire has raised funding from futuristic technology group SRAM & MRAM to be dubbed the fastest growing blockchain unicorn in India and the only sustainable blockchain unicorn in the world, boasting a valuation of $1.5 billion.

15 July 2022

News/wholesale

Banque de France steps up wholesale CBDC work

The Banque de France is accelerating its wholesale CBDC programme as it bids to be ready to bring in central bank money as a settlement asset as early as 2023.

13 July 2022

Company update/markets

SIX Digital Exchange tokenizes private shares on blockchain-based Central Securities Depository

Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the world’s first fully regulated digital asset exchange and Central Securities Depository (CSD), working in partnership with F10, a global FinTech and InsurTech Innovation Ecosystem and Aequitec, a digital share register and cap table company, announces the first-ever tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

12 July 2022

Company update/markets

Allfunds Blockchain makes inroads in Italy

Allfunds Blockchain, the arm of Allfunds (AMS:ALLFG) specialized in blockchain technology, launches FAST in Italy, a solution built on blockchain technology aimed at increasing the speed and efficiency of mutual funds transfers, which was already successfully launched in Spain.

12 July 2022

News/startups

Santander to hold awards ceremony in metaverse

Santander will host an awards ceremony in the metaverse this week to crown the winners of a global blockchain challenge.

12 July 2022

News/crypto

ING spins out digital asset custody platform to GMEX

ING has spun out its institutional-grade digital custody platform Pyctor to market operator GMEX.

11 July 2022

Company update/crypto

Cellebrite and Chainalysis team up

Cellebrite DI Ltd. (NASDAQ: CLBT), a global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, and Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, have launched a partnership to enable customers to easily identify and assess criminal activity involving cryptocurrency during digital investigations to expedite their resolution.

05 July 2022

News/startups

BaaS startup BKN301 raises EUR15m

BKN301, a digital payments and Banking-as-a-Service startup, has raised EUR15 million in a Series A funding round led by Abalone Group.

05 July 2022

News/crypto

Metaco wins crypto custody gig with SocGen

Fresh from a contract win at Citi, Swiss crypto custody player Metaco has signed its next Tier 1 banking client, Societe Generale.

30 June 2022

Company update/startups

Qenta unveils fintech platform for emerging markets

Qenta, Inc., (Qenta) a financial services and infrastructure platform with cutting-edge technology and a proprietary enterprise-grade blockchain, the Qenta Operating System, today unveiled an enhanced and integrated suite of financial solutions.

29 June 2022

Company update/markets

SocGen goes live on Broadridge distributed ledger repo platform

Leveraging the latest technology to further transform its capital market operations, Société Générale, is now live on the distributed ledger technology repo platform (DLR) created by global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR).

29 June 2022

News/wholesale

Caceis recruits Taurus for digital custody offering

France-based Caceis is the latest asset servicing firm to announce plans to develop its custody service for digital assets.

27 June 2022

News/wholesale

Blockchain firm SETL acquired by Turkish fintech

Enterprise blockchain firm SETL has been acquired by Turkey-based fintech Colendi.

27 June 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

Money 20/20: How blockchain analytics can be built into business models

Marina Khaustova, CEO, Crystal Blockchain, speaks at Money 20/20 about how the crypto space can move to being AML compliant, how crypto regulation is going to evolve over the next few years, the impact of sanctions, and how blockchain analytics can be built into a business model.

27 June 2022

Company update/people

Cion Digital names Sundar Nagarathnam COO

Cion Digital, developers of the first enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, announced today the appointment of senior executive Sundar Nagarathnam as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

24 June 2022