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The blockchain tech adoption for traditional financial institutions will help to improve the industry — but are those institutions ready?
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What does the next decade hold for #blockchain? Amid a weakened global economy, cryptocurrencies could be a great portfolio diversifier and more institutions will likely adopt blockchain, writes Alexandra Tinsman (@Inside_NEM) of @NEMofficial
2019-8-14 19:10 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourcePrime Trust, a qualified custodian for digital assets, providing token and fiat custody, funds processing, AML & KYC compliance, has announced it has become the first US qualified custodian to secure crypto assets with Fireblocks, an enterprise-grade platform for financial institutions that need to streamline digital asset trading.
2019-8-12 18:39 | |
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CoinAlts Fund Symposium is excited to announce its fourth conference for over 300 fund managers and allocators in Chicago on September 26, 2019. This year’s conference is produced by leading blockchain media & events company, BlockWorks Group, and will take place at the Art Institute of Chicago.
2019-8-9 12:30 | |
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Ripple, a blockchain company, has been advocating the use of cryptocurrency for cross border payments. Specifically, its native cryptocurrency – the XRP and its xRapid technology have been adopted by banks, governments, institutions, among others globally.
2019-8-7 10:52 | |
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In a bid to make it possible for financial institutions under its purview to facilitate real-time, round-the-clock payments, the United States Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, has announced plans to launch its new payment and settlement service called FedNow, according to a press release on August 5, 2019.
2019-8-6 16:48 | |
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As per a report released by a Bangladeshi media outlet called ‘The Daily Star’ recently, the country’s government will spend a chunk of its $208 million IT project fund to train local graduates in matters related to crypto and blockchain technology — primarily by sponsoring their studies in institutions located all across Japan and India. […]
2019-8-5 18:28 | |
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The Middle East and South Asia (MEASA) region has formed its first blockchain consortium to bring better efficiency to KYC and data sharing practices between institutions. The Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) along with Mashreq Bank has partnered with Norbloc for the solution, as reported by Emirates News Agency, July 31, 2019.
2019-8-1 12:30 | |
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Coinspeaker UnionBank Launches Stablecoin, Carries Out First Bank Blockchain TransactionUnionBank uses its i2i platform to offer the first bank-blockchain transaction in the Philippines connecting islands, individuals, and institutions while offering financial services to the unbanked Filipinos.
2019-7-31 13:36 | |
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Blockchain firm and creator of the XRP digital currency, Ripple, has announced that its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) has partnered with two Japanese higher education institutions.
2019-7-31 02:00 | |
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An Austrian high-security company with experience in e-governance solutions for the Australian government has launched Chainlock, a new decentralized private key management solution that mostly aims to target the B2B market.
2019-7-29 17:00 | |
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One of the largest financial institutions of the country, the Union Bank of the Philippines, has announced the launch of its own crypto today to connect rural banks via its blockchain platform. A blockchain platform and a fiat-pegged stablecoin The stablecoin dubbed PHX – which is pegged to the Philippine Peso (PHP) – is already […] The post Top-10 Philippine Bank Launches Its Own Fiat-Pegged Stablecoin Cryptocurrency appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-27 14:56 | |
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, a corporate and institutional reimagining of what a digital currency should be and do.
2019-7-24 17:00 | |
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The advent of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies along with all other uses of blockchain technology isn’t exactly sitting well with traditional institutions. Though unsurprising, some of these firms are publicly speaking against cryptocurrency and would do everything within their power, to tackle the sector.
2019-7-22 23:20 | |
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Japan’s government is working on the creation of a new international network for payments based on cryptocurrencies in order to fight money laundering inside the region, according to an article posted July 18, 2019 by Reuters.
2019-7-19 11:05 | |
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Coinspeaker Digital Payments ForumThe Digital Payments Forum will have the best European financial institutions covering the biggest trends including: real time payments; blockchain; cyber security; open bank and API’s; FinTechs and much more.Digital Payments Forum
2019-7-19 01:44 | |
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Supranational economic institutions have been studying the effects of cryptocurrency and blockchain. In a report released by the IMF, July 15, 2019, they highlight the potential for cryptocurrencies and traditional digital money to spark a new age of payments.
2019-7-17 19:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceFinancial Services Superintendent Linda A. Lacewell announced today that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has approved the applications of Seed Digital Commodities Market LLC (SCXM) and Zero Hash LLC for virtual currency licenses, and has approved Zero Hash for a money transmitter license.
2019-7-15 19:42 | |
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The world of cryptocurrencies has been working towards mainstream adoption for a long time now. However, rejection by major financial institutions has always been a problem. Institutions like banks have tried to use cryptocurrencies’ underlying technology, blockchain.
2019-7-13 15:30 | |
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Payment processor Visa along with specialist VC firm Blockchain Capital helped Anchorage, an institutional custodial service, raise nearly $40 million in capital at an undisclosed valuation. Visa recently launched a cross border remittance network with a pseudo-distributed ledger.
2019-7-11 13:00 | |
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As Bitcoin rises and falls without warning over the past six months, investors, institutions, and crypto-enthusiasts are turning to less volatile digital coin alternatives. The digital currency shifting how we view cryptocurrency and the utility of blockchain are called stablecoins.
2019-7-10 11:46 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceToday, a group of enterprise partners, venture capitalists, technologists, start-ups and academic institutions, announced joining forces to better leverage blockchain to pioneer the next phase of the web.
2019-7-10 19:44 | |
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Blockstream, the blockchain and bitcoin development company, has announced that its recently launched premium bitcoin wallet Blockstream Green, now supports its Liquid Network across both iOS and Android (and coming soon to desktop).
2019-7-9 17:39 | |
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An Executive Board Member of the European Central Bank (ECB), the financial institution responsible for administering monetary policies within the Eurozone, has opined that financial watchdogs across the globe must now fast track the process of regulating bitcoin (BTC) and other blockchain-based digital assets, as more and more institutions like Facebook join the bandwagon, reportsRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-8 13:35 | |
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Banco BTG Pactual S. A. , Latin America’s largest standalone investment bank, and Dalma Capital, a prominent Dubai asset manager, have announced, plans to utilize the Tezos blockchain for Security Token Offerings (STOs), including the ongoing REITBZ STO.
2019-7-5 23:14 | |
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In a blog post published on July 3, 2019, community-driven blockchain project Tezos announced that it had secured a business partnership with Latin America’s largest standalone investment bank, Banco BTG Pactual S.
2019-7-5 15:00 | |
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A CFTC report has highlighted a 14 percent increase in short positions held by institutions and big traders in the CME Bitcoin futures market. Smaller retail traders are taking the other side of this trade, leading market experts to think there may be a missing piece to the puzzle, as reported by Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2019.
2019-6-27 20:00 | |
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While the government of crypto-friendly Switzerland have since put in place amenable regulations to govern the region’s blockchain and digital assets ecosystem, traditional financial institutions in the country remain reluctant to service cryptocurrency-related startups.
2019-6-27 21:00 | |
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Despite dividing opinions earlier this year with its “cryptocurrency” JPM Coin, American bank JP Morgan is rolling out its blockchain-based tech to more clients. JP Morgan says potential clients from the US, Europe, and Japan are interested in using its digital coin to speed up securities trading, Bloomberg reports.
2019-6-25 15:41 | |
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Facebook overwhelmed the crypto community with its Libra project and left the financial institutions to cope with the meteor that might replace the traditional banking system. With its whitepaper, Libra established itself as a global currency and a financial infrastructure that would empower its users.
2019-6-21 16:15 | |
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BitMax. io (BTMX. com) has announced the listing of Algo (ALGO), the native token of the Algorand blockchain network. The Algorand Foundation is committed to building a trusted, public, and permissionless infrastructure for the borderless economy with a pure proof-of-stake blockchain; the BitMax team is thrilled to provide strategic support to the Algorand team in their pursuit of this ambitious and innovative vision.
2019-6-19 20:49 | |
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Facebook’s entry into the cryptospace has finally given the community a much-needed push into mainstream adoption. As a result, institutions and individuals are being forced to understand the inner mechanics of blockchain, in an effort to best leverage the inevitable change.
2019-6-19 15:00 | |
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As the influx of new players into the crypto-ecosystem grows, the industry has come a long way from its inception a decade ago. The industry has forced mainstream institutions such as Facebook and JP Morgan to join the race.
2019-6-18 20:30 | |
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While financial institutions still maintain the preconceived notion of cryptocurrency as a threat to their existence, the mass adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can no longer be ignored.
2019-6-18 02:30 | |
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A Polish bank has bucked the trend of companies and institutions experimenting with blockchain technology using private, permissioned ledgers. Warsaw-based Alior will reportedly use the Ethereum public blockchain to build a system to let customers check the authenticity of documents they receive from the bank.
2019-6-18 02:00 | |
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Traditional payment methods are largely still being used by most of the world’s financial institutions for their core businesses. Even though cryptocurrency offers speeds unmatched by traditional methods especially with cross-border payments, not everyone is very excited about the complete switch to cryptocurrency or blockchain solutions for their business. This is one of the reasons […]
2019-6-14 16:46 | |
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Traditional Institutions and Firms Considering Adopting Blockchain and Crypto-based Solutions A few traditional institutions are known to be actively considering cryptocurrency and blockchain solutions as additions to their business, in recent times.
2019-6-13 22:40 | |
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Ripple is one firm with a strong penchant for the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency and sometimes via its own XRP. The parent body for the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency is known for its initiatives to support cryptocurrency and blockchain startups and also to deliver solutions to a large number of financial institutions already in their hundreds, […] The post Ripple is Experiencing “Dramatic Growth” in RippleNet’s Transaction Volume and Client Base appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-6-12 17:50 | |
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Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making. First made public in October 2016, the Visa B2B Connect network is being made available in 30 markets, with plans to expand to as many as 90 territories by the end of the year.
2019-6-12 13:09 | |
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Fast-growing cryptocurrency exchange BiKi. com has recently attracted yet another slew of investments, this time from influential blockchain investment institutions Genesis Capital and FBG Capital.
2019-6-12 09:30 | |
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Ripple, a leading FinTech company that enables cross-border settlement, recently announced that the firm has expanded its operations to Brazil, the largest country in South America. The announcement also gave insight into the growth of its payment settlement network.
2019-6-12 21:17 | |
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Crypto Market Has Seen Increased Attention from Institutions The cryptocurrency market is an emerging, nascent market that changes every single day. This growth of the crypto market into mainstream validation, popularity and adoption means that crypto businesses explore more ways to attract both existing and would-be investors, both small scale individual investors and large scale […]
2019-6-9 19:13 | |
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There is a larger number of companies and institutions that are showing their interest in blockchain technology and digital assets. The venture capitalist Tim Draper, has also commented positively about the future of cryptocurrencies.
2019-6-8 19:29 | |
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Recently, MXC Exchange, based on market insight and with the expansion of globalization and asset trading business, has launched the SuperNode Program, which will work with well-known institutions in the industry to find 100x projects to promote the development of the blockchain eco-system.
2019-6-8 18:52 | |
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Thirteen more startups have entered the Binance Labs incubation program, with projects ranging from software security solutions for financial institutions to protect crypto assets to a decentralized sports prediction platform on the Tron blockchain.
2019-6-7 19:19 | |
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The Summit weekend ok Blockchain Week Rome will be an opportunity without precedents to experience the cryptocurrencies world. For the first time in Italy, guests from the most important companies in the world, such as Binance, Tron and Zcash, will join the experts of Italian country, the Institutions, and the communities, with a series of […] The post Blockchain Week Rome: All the news about the biggest Italian dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-6 11:30 | |
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CryptoNinjas SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, and Quant Network, a UK-based blockchain technology company, today announced they have signed a partnership agreement to explore blockchain interoperability and the creation of agnostic cross-platform applications and services for banks and financial.
2019-6-6 17:44 | |
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Since the introduction of cryptocurrencies in the global financial landscape, most users and people across sectors are split between the importance of central banks, and the idea of decentralized networks.
2019-6-4 22:30 | |
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Blockchain Technology, along with the idea of digital assets, has caught the attention of several major economic institutions. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14 major financial firms, including the likes of Barclays, Nasdaq, Credit Suisse Group, Banco Santander, ING, and Lloyds Banking Group, led by UBS group AG, have decided to come together to launch […] The post UBS Group AG-led banks to launch blockchain-based platform USC token to facilitate cross-border trading appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-4 19:15 | |
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CME Bitcoin futures have hit an all-time high in liquidity with 5100 contracts of open interest as per the CFTC’s data sheet. The volume on their Bitcoin contracts has been surging since the $3100 bottom with most trading activity likely to have come from institutions, June 2, 2019.
2019-6-3 17:00 | |
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What are the key trends highlighted by the global crypto adoption index, and how do they reflect crypto’s role in global economic shifts? The global crypto adoption index is an essential tool for understanding how well different countries are adopting…
Chanalysis submitted a Polkadot governance proposal on April 18 that could lead to a $10 million partnership. The services provided by Chainalysis will include monitoring and tracing the DOT token activities on the Relay Chain, ensuring visibility of any potentially risky on-chain actions to regulators and institutional entities.
Banking giant HSBC is set to introduce digital asset custody services for tokenized securities such as bonds on the blockchain. The bank expects to go live with the service in 2024. The service is geared toward institutional investors and will continue expanding the lender’s offerings in the digital asset realm.
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Polygon Labs announced on Sept. 29 that it has added Google Cloud to the decentralized group of validators powering its proof-of-stake Network. Polygon said in its statement that Google Cloud is now among more than 100 validators who secure the Polygon PoS Network, a network that originally operated under the name Matic Network and which […] The post Polygon adds Google Cloud to its validator set appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Pudgy Penguins has announced a merchandising deal with retail giant Walmart that will introduce its IP to the megastore’s shelves in over 2,000 stores. The Pudgy Toys—plush collectibles that will now be sold alongside legacy brands in Walmart’s brick-and-mortar stores—will offer access Pudgy World, a digital social experience on zkSync Era.
Citigroup has launched the pilot of its Citi Token Services, a new platform aimed at bolstering cash management and trade finance mechanisms. The company announced in a press release that the service leverages blockchain and smart contract technologies to provide innovative digital asset solutions for institutional clients.