1631 Results from 2016
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As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2016, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 3 January 2017.
21 December 2016
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The Royal Canadian Mint is to allow transfers of gold bullion value stored in its vaults over a blockchain network run by Goldmoney Inc.
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Munnypot, a mobile-first robo-advisor service created by the former founders of financial advisory firm Cavanagh Group, has soft-launched in the UK with a range of corporate partners.
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BNP Paribas has completed its first live cross-border B2B payments between corporate clients using blockchain technology.
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The National Bank of Hungary is drawing up plans to introduce an instant money transfer framework for domestic payments by 2019.
Four men who caused a series of explosions and fires at cash machines have been jailed for a combined total of more than 43 years.
MetLife in India has launched a new customer service platform available only through a virtual reality headset.
Anti-trust watchdog the CMA has suggested a number of remedies to counteract a reduction in competition for the supply of cashpoints in the UK in the wake of the $1.8 billion merger between Diebold and Wincor Nixdorf.
20 December 2016
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Icap are among a clutch of major financial institutions preparing to invest up to $20 million in blockchain startup Axoni, according to a report by Reuters.
A former CommBank IT executive who pleaded guilty to taking bribes in a cash for contracts scandal has received a three-and-a-half year jail sentence from Australian courts.
Lloyds Banking Group is to pay £1.9 billion for the acquisition of credit card outfit MBNA from Bank of America.
Euronext has entered exclusive talks over the acquisition of the French operations of LCH.Clearnet pending the successful closing of the merger between the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Bourse.
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