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42 Banks Join New Japanese Blockchain Consortium
November 2nd, 2016
42 banks are joining a newly-created Japanese blockchain consortium to enhance the cross-border payment industry. The consortium will focus on research and development, and will cover domestic and foreign exchange services by utilizing blockchain technology. The Japanese blockchain organization ...
Riskalyze Raises $20 Million in capital to accelerate Risk Number and Robo Platforms
November 1st, 2016
Riskalyze, the company that empowers thousands of advisors to align each client’s investments with their Risk Number®, today announced a $20 million minority growth equity investment led by FTV Capital. This is the first outside institutional round for the ...
Japanese Financial Institution Set to Launch a Digital Currency Exchange
October 31st, 2016
Japanese financial services group SBI is set to launch a platform that enables the trading and exchange of virtual currencies, citing increasing interest in virtual currencies like bitcoin which is proving popular among everyday investors. An announcement reveals the new company to be ...
New York’s bitcoin hub dreams fade with licensing backlog
October 31st, 2016
New York’s financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year. But the state lost that momentum when the agency’s chief left, putting a licensing ...
Korean Government to Commercialize Bitcoin, Digital Currency
October 25th, 2016
Financial authorities decided to institutionalize digital currencies such as Bitcoin. In addition, they are planning to ramp up the size of average annual policy finance to one trillion won from 500 billion won for the development of fintech. “We ...
Switzerland adopts strategic directions to boost its Financial sector
October 25th, 2016
During its meeting on 19 October 2016, the Federal Council adopted a report and laid the foundations for a future-oriented financial market policy. The focus is on five strategic directions that should enable the Swiss financial centre to boost ...
Saxo Bank appoints Chief Information Officer and member of its Executive Team
October 18th, 2016
Saxo Bank, the investment and trading specialist, has today announced the appointment of Ashok Kalyanswamy as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a member of its Executive Team. The appointment follows Ashley Latham’s decision to step down as CIO. Kalyanswamy ...
ICAP acquires Abide Financial
October 13th, 2016
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that it has acquired Abide Financial (Abide), a market-leading global regulatory reporting specialist. Abide will become a subsidiary of ICAP’s ...
EY Partners with Paxos on Blockchain Gold Settlement Service
October 12th, 2016
Financial services consultancy firm EY has announced it will collaborate with Paxos, a fintech focused on blockchain solutions, for the rollout of a blockchain settlement service that looks to offer instant settlement and delivery versus payment (DvP) for the ...
Nasdaq and Hong Kong exchange sharing information on blockchain technology
October 11th, 2016
The Nasdaq stock market is hoping to bring its blockchain technology to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to its president and chief operating officer Adena Friedman. In the city on Thursday and Friday last week to meet with ...
