Mastercard is Piloting Tokenized Bank Deposits in New UK Testbed

The card giant is launching what it calls a Multi-Token Network (MTN), which will begin by testing tokenized bank deposits and move onto experiments using stablecoins and CBDCs.

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Mastercard Is Piloting Tokenized Bank Deposits in New UK Testbed

The card giant is launching what it calls a Multi-Token Network (MTN), which will begin by testing tokenized bank deposits and move onto experiments using stablecoins and CBDCs.

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Caitlin Long Gets Approval For Crypto Bank

Bitcoiner and advocate Caitlin Long has been granted a bank charter that includes custody services for digital assets as well as tokenized dollars. Her company, Avanti Bank & Trust, now...

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Avanti Bank Launches

Avanti Bank has been granted a bank charter in Wyoming and will offer a tokenized USD on Liquid.

The post Avanti Bank Launches appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Raiffeisen Bank to connect its stablecoin project to multiple blockchains

Raiffeisen Bank International is planning to use a blockchain interoperability tool to connect its tokenized fiat currency dubbed RBI Coin to multiple blockchains. A report unveiled this news on October 22, noting that this new resolve will facilitate the integration of the Pantos blockchain interoperability tool into RBI Coin.

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Swiss Bank Announces First Stablecoin Commercial Payment

Sygnum, a regulated Swiss bank has announced an integration with Switzerland’s biggest retailer, Digitec Galaxus, for payment with tokenized Swiss Franks, DCHF. They say: “Over USD 3.5 trillion per year,...

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Swiss Crypto Bank SEBA Announces Partnership with Corda-based DASL for Assets Securitization

Coinspeaker Swiss Crypto Bank SEBA Announces Partnership with Corda-based DASL for Assets SecuritizationSEBA will be working in close coordination with DASL for the issuance of tokenized securities over the Corda blockchain network for institutional clients.

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Belarus Banks Announce Upcoming Token Pilot Program

Belarus Central Bank authorizes several banks in the country to begin issuing tokenized offerings.

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Digital Dollar Project Proposes Framework for U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency

Coinspeaker Digital Dollar Project Proposes Framework for U. S. Central Bank Digital CurrencyThe Digital Dollar Project group published its first white paper, where they explained the need for a tokenized version of the U.

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$35.4B Investment Bank in Latin American Issues Tokenized Real Estate on Tezos Blockchain

Banco BTG Pactual, the largest private investment bank in Latin America, has started to issue tokenized real estate security tokens on the Tezos blockchain. However, this won't be the first occasion when the investment bank has made use of blockchain to issue security tokens for real estate, earlier the bank has launched ReitBZ token on […]

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BIS Paper Reckons With P2P Payments, Tokenized Securities, Central Bank Digital Currencies

Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements say the future of payments may be peer-to-peer, but a number of considerations must be satisfied before distributed ledger-based systems can go mainstream.

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265-Year-Old German Bank To Use Stellar’s Blockchain To Tokenize Securities With Bitbond

German Bank von der Heydt, which was established in 1754, made on Monday the announcement that it’s developing a special-purpose Euro stablecoin. The aim of this stablecoin will be to make tokenized securities private placements easier for investors.

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German Bank to Offer Tokenized Securities Based on Stellar

One of the oldest banks in Europe, von der Heydt, is developing a euro stablecoin to facilitate private placements in securities tokenized on the Stellar blockchain.

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Singapore Clears Securities Token Platform iSTOX for Full Trading

Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has greenlit a blockchain-based platform iSTOX to trade tokenized capital market securities such as equity and bonds.

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Santander Pays Dividend and Completes Tokenized Bond on Ethereum

Santander, one of the world’s biggest bank, has completed the entire process of issuing a tokenized bond, paying the interest/dividend rate for the period, and redeeming or closing the bond,.

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Northern Trust Testing Fractionlized Bonds on Blockchain

The U.S.-based custody bank is working with BondEvalue, a Singapore-based debt markets tech company, to offer fractions of tokenized bonds to retail and small professional investors.

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Northern Trust Testing Fractionalized Bonds on Blockchain

The U.S.-based custody bank is looking to offer fractions of tokenized bonds to retail and small professional investors.

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Billon and Raiffeisen Bank partner to tokenize the euro on blockchain

Billon, an enterprise DLT company unifying national currency transactions, document management, and identity management into a single system, announced today its tokenized euro idea was selected to participate in the Elevator Lab Partnership Program organized by Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI).

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Deutsche Bank Bond Tokenized on EOS Network

A bond issued by the problem-ridden Deutsche Bank has been tokenized on the EOS network. The creation of tokenized assets is nothing new, but this time, the decision raised eyebrows. EOS-Supported Tokenized Bond Met with Skepticism EOS, a much-touted project, is still seen as dubious, hosting significant bot activity in its distributed app market.

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Switzerland Central Bank and SIX Digital Exchange Eye Digital Currencies for Trade Settlements

Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland’s central bank, together with Bank for International Settlements (BIS) are jointly exploring on how a central bank digital currency (CBDC) can be used to trade tokenized assets, the Block reports.

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Swiss Central Bank to Explore Use of Digital Franc in Settling Trades

Switzerland’s central bank and the SIX stock exchange will study using a central bank digital currency to settle trades of tokenized assets.

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Singapore Exchange–Backed iSTOX Raises Series A for Tokenized Securities Trading

The Singapore Exchange-backed security token platform has raised an undisclosed investment from an investment bank based in Thailand.

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Thai Bank Backs Series A Funding for Tokenized Securities Startup iSTOX

The Singapore Exchange-backed security token platform has raised an undisclosed investment from an investment bank based in Thailand.

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Santander Reveals the $20 Million Ethereum Bond

Santander, one of the world’s biggest bank, has tokenized a $20 million bond offering for and by itself on ethereum’s blockchain. John Whelan, head of digital investment banking at Santander,.

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Santander issues $20 million bond on Ethereum blockchain

The fifth-largest bank in Europe, Banco Santander, is the first financial institution to issue an “end-to-end” debt-based bond on Ethereum’s public blockchain. The move is an indicator of ETH’s growing importance in finance.

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Crypto exchange Poloniex now offers card and bank account transfers

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourcePoloniex, the bitcoin and crypto exchange owned by Circle, announced today that users in over 80 countries can now transfer money directly to and from their bank accounts.

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Avenir Suisse Suggests Swiss National Bank To Launch A Token Based On The Swiss Franc

The Swiss think tank called Avenir Suisse recommended Switzerland’s National Bank to launch a Swiss franc token. The information was released by the privately funded think tank in a report on June 4.

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French Investment bank’s Ethereum based experiment brings crypto to a $2 trillion market

French lending giant Societe Generale has become the latest traditional financial company to experiment with digital tokens. The bank’s Ethereum-based tokenized bonds have the potential to bring cryptocurrencies to a market worth over $2 trillion.

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$112M of Bonds On Ethereum Just Got Bought By French Bank

A division of French multinational bank, Societe Generale SA, has sold $112 million worth of tokenized covered bonds, backed… The post $112M of Bonds On Ethereum Just Got Bought By French Bank appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Real Estate Tokens Are Coming To Tezos

Tokenized real estate has always been a compelling prospect for the blockchain sector. Widespread digitization of property in the massive $217 trillion real estate market could not only be lucrative, but transformative for the global economy.

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Mt Pelerin ICO

At Mt Pelerin, we believe that an evolution of banking is long overdue. With the global enthusiasm for FinTech and the ever growing success of blockchain technologies, we now have all the right tools to make this evolution happen.

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Mt Pelerin closes first $2 million for blockchain based bank project

Mt Pelerin, a Swiss startup developing a blockchain-enabled bank application, has announced they have successfully closed their first stage of funding with 5% of its tokenized equity sold to the crowd. In October 2018, Mt Pelerin Group SA incorporated 100%...

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Singapore Central Bank ‘Demonstrates’ Value of Blockchain With Tokenized Assets

The Stock Market and Central Bank of Singapore have successfully developed a blockchain-based settlement system for tokenized assets in partnership with some big names like Nasdaq, Anquan Capital, and Deloitte.

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Singapore’s Central Bank, SGX Develop Blockchain Settlement System

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the nation's stock exchange have developed a blockchain-based settlement system for tokenized assets.

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Singapore's Central Bank, SGX Develop Blockchain Settlement System

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the nation's stock exchange have developed a blockchain-based settlement system for tokenized assets.

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Circle Introduces Stablecoin Backed By U.S. Dollar

Regulated stablecoins continue their disruptive journey into mass adoption as Circle announces application of tokenized fiat assets. The U. S. dollar-backed stablecoin USD//Coin (USDC) is the product of Circle’s partnership with CENTRE, the open source distribution network which will facilitate deposits from U.

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MAS, SGX, Three Other Partners Build Blockchain Solution for Tokenized Assets

Singapore’s central bank and Singapore Exchange announced a partnership to develop Delivery versus Payment capabilities for the settlement of tokenized assets.

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Singapore’s Central Bank Partners With Nasdaq, Deloitte on Settling Tokenized Assets

Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central banking institution, has teamed up with major firms. The project hopes to develop solutions for the exchange and settlement of tokenized digital currencies, as well as securities assets.

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Singapore Central Bank and Stock Exchange Explore Blockchain for Settlement of Tokenized Assets

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) are collaborating on the development of new capabilities for the settlement of tokenized assets across different blockchain platforms, the central bank announced on Friday.

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What is OmiseGO (OMG)? A Payment Network with Ambitions to Abolish Bank Accounts

OmiseGO’s objective is to completely change the way payment networks work today building a system that will allow people to pay with any tokenized value anywhere in the world.

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More Than a Ledger: How Blockchains Will Democratize Wealth

To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate.

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JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today. This time, the firm has plans to handle IPOs in much same the way that ICOs currently operate. IPOs, or initial public offerings, are events in […]

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JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today.

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Malta: Crypto Exchange Binance Backs Plans to Create First Decentralized, Tokenized Bank

Malta: the world’s second largest crypto exchange Binance is backing plans to create a blockchain-based bank with tokenized ownership

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Swiss Stock Exchange Operator Plans to Launch Crypto Exchange

SIX, the firm that operates and owns the Swiss stock exchange, has announced plans to launch a fully regulated digital cryptocurrency exchange. The firm says it plans to launch "the first market infrastructure in the world” which will “offer a fully integrated end-to-end trading" while providing a safe environment where digital assets can be issued and existing securities and non-bankable assets can be tokenized.

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Block66 ICO

Block66 is building a new blockchain-enabled marketplace for mortgages. Institutional and private lenders can use the service to offer loans to a wide range of borrowers, introduced by Block66 broker partners.

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