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News/markets
British business-to-business cross-border payments firm CAB Payments raised up to £335 million through a listing on the London Stock Exchange.
06 July 2023
News/payments
British business-to-business cross-border payments firm CAB Payments is planning to list on the London Stock Exchange.
08 June 2023
BNP Paribas and NatWest are going live with technology from CobaltFX that is designed to simplify and streamline the allocation of credit for FX transactions between banks and improve access to liquidity.
31 May 2023
News/startups
The Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have launched a joint programme to foster fintech innovation in both APAC countries.
28 April 2023
T Rowe Price Associates and WisdomTree are among the FS firms testing the Avalanche blockchain for executing FX and interest rate swaps.
13 April 2023
Following its recent acquisition by United Fintech, Cobalt is relaunching as CobaltFX and spinning off its digital asset business to a new venture on the same platform.
28 March 2023
Standard Chartered Bank and Singaporean company Allinpay have enabled PayNow instant cross-border payments for merchants and businesses in Hong Kong using QR codes.
09 February 2023
News/crypto
Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.
16 December 2022
United Fintech, an outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets fintechs, has acquired Cobalt, a provider of risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. Terms were not disclosed.
15 December 2022
The Bank for Inernational Settlements is working with three central banks to explore cross-border CBDC trading and settlement using DeFi protocols.
03 November 2022
DBS has become the first bank to go live on a new digital asset trading platform from Singapore Exchange unit MaxxTrader.
31 October 2022
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks have completed a successful pilot of the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by commercial banks for foreign exchange transactions across borders, as part of Project mBridge.
26 October 2022
News/wholesale
BNP Paribas has struck a deal to buy currency risk management automation firm Kantox. Financial terms were not disclosed.
11 October 2022
News/people
Tech Nation’s Global Talent Visa Report 2022 reveals that international tech leaders are rolling into the UK and strengthening the sector.
12 September 2022
JP Morgan Payments has launched a cross-border liquidity solution in Saudi Arabia, allowing clients to connect to liquidity pools in London and other international cities.
05 August 2022
Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.
14 June 2022
Santander’s SME and corporate clients in Spain, from today, will be able to make immediate international payments to recipients in Brazil, in Brazilian Real, through the One Trade solution.
30 March 2022
HSBC and Wells Fargo have completed the first interbank Payment vs Payment (PvP) settlement outside of CLS using distributed ledger technology from Baton Systems.
13 December 2021
News/inclusion
Investment firm Dinosaur Merchant Bank has partnered with Rational FX to offer web and app-based money transfer services.
08 December 2021
Wise has opened the door to US-based customers and retail and institutional investors seeking to invest in the company from September 2021.
20 August 2021
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