2019-6-6 22:08 |
Avenir Suisse, an influential Swiss think tank, believes the country should make the move to become a "blockchain nation" with the development of its own national stablecoin and enabling the trade of cryptoassets. origin »
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The Swiss National Bank and the BIS don’t want to miss out on possible blockchain-powered benefits for the financial system.
2020-12-5 13:24 | |
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One of the most powerful and influential think tanks in Switzerland, Avenir Suisse, has recently reported that the organization was pushing forward the country and its central bank, the Swiss National Bank, in order to create national crypto.
2019-6-6 23:15 | |
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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.
2019-6-5 02:27 | |
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Switzerland’s national bank should work with big industry players to develop a Swiss franc token, a think tank says
2019-6-4 15:20 | |
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SIX, the Swiss national stock exchange group, is working on creating its own stablecoin pegged to the Swiss franc.
2019-5-23 23:15 | |
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Ripple’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, while attending the Swiss National Bank Conference, spoke to several authorities in the financial industry… The post Ripple CEO Just Pitched Ripple To Top Bank Execs Including IMF Director appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-21 07:53 | |
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Ripple’s three unique software products, xCurrent, xRapid and RippleNet have propelled significant adoption as well price rise for its native crypto-asset, XRP. The US-based technology firm aims to provide its users with “crypto-banking experience” with the aforementioned products.
2019-5-19 23:30 | |
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Amid reports of Ripple allegedly misrepresenting the actual amount of XRP in their escrow accounts, the US-based blockchain tech firm continues to be one of the fastest growing networks in the world.
2019-5-19 20:30 | |
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Switzerland’s national postal service Swiss Post has cooperated with blockchain firm Modum to further develop a temperature monitoring solution for shipments
2019-5-9 17:53 | |
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SIX Swiss Exchange, Switzerland’s principal stock exchange based in Zurich, could list an XRP Exchange Traded Product soon. This was made known in a report in BlockCrypto, on Monday. The XRP ETP, which is floated by Swiss crypto startup Amun AG, will be launched under the “AXRP” ticker.
2019-3-12 12:02 | |
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SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), an operator of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) regulated by FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, has chosen R3‘s Corda Enterprise blockchain platform for its digital asset listing, trading, settlement, and custodial services, according to a press release on March 7, 2019.
2019-3-8 19:30 | |
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CoinSpeaker Swiss Wallet Manufacturer Tangem to Issue National Crypto for Marshall Islands The physical banknotes of the Sovereign, the world's first decentralized digital national currency, will join the U.
2019-1-30 09:51 | |
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Swiss crypto wallet maker Tangem says the Marshall Islands has selected it to produce physical "notes" for its planned national digital currency.
2019-1-30 18:03 | |
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According to a joint press release published by Swisscom and Swiss Post, on December 6, 2018, the two state-owned entities have come together to form a “simple, secure, and sustainable” platform for blockchain applications in Switzerland.
2018-12-10 18:00 | |
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In a new annoucement on Thursday, Switzerland seems to be working on their progression in the blockchain space. The national postal service, Swiss Post, has decided to collaborate with Swisscom, which is the telecoms provider that the state supports.
2018-12-7 02:37 | |
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Switzerland‘s state-run postal and telecoms services are hellbent on building a national blockchain in a bid to recruit local businesses to convert to distributed ledger technology (DLT). Swiss Post and Swisscom have shared details of joint-venture to build a completely private Swiss blockchain for launching locally operated “decentralized” applications.
2018-12-6 14:11 | |
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Amun AG, a startup in Zug, Switzerland, has received a license from Swiss authorities to offer a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP). An ETP is a blanket term to denote a security that derives its price from an underlying asset (e.
2018-11-20 02:50 | |
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Maerki Baumann — a private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland — has announced it will manage its clients’ cryptocurrency assets. This makes it the second Swiss bank to make such an announcement following Hypothekarbank Lenzburg (Hypi), which stated in June that it would open business accounts for cryptocurrency companies.
2018-8-7 23:23 | |
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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has today announced enforcement proceedings against crypto mining firm Envion. The regulators believe that the German-Swiss start-up has been operating in breach of national banking laws.
2018-7-27 23:00 | |
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Recently, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority [FINMA] have held meetings with the Swiss National Bank and some of the other country’s local banks on how to improve the present condition of cryptocurrency ventures’ access to the bank.
2018-7-23 21:03 | |
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Switzerland’s financial market supervisor, FINMA held discussions with the country’s bankers’ association and the Swiss National Bank (SNB), on how to improve cryptocurrency ventures’ access to banks.
2018-7-21 13:10 | |
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Switzerland’s financial market supervisor, FINMA held discussions with the country’s bankers’ association and the Swiss National Bank (SNB), on how to improve cryptocurrency ventures’ access to banks.
2018-7-21 11:00 | |
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On 6th July, Swiss Stock Exchange announced its collaboration with Swiss National Bank and FINMA. The initiative of the collaboration is to build a trading platform for the exchanging of digital assets.
2018-7-8 02:59 | |
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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.
2018-7-7 23:11 | |
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The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.
2018-7-3 23:28 | |
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When cryptos became widely popular, central banks were seriously considering issuing their own digital currencies. However, the interest has slowly waned as central banks begin to seriously consider the implications such currencies would have on financial stability.
2018-6-25 20:00 | |
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Business Insider reported that Thomas Moser, a key member of management at the National Swiss Bank, believes that governments have lost interest in state-issued crypto or digital currencies. Thomas Moser: “Enthusiasm Has Slowed” For National Crypto While at a cryptocurrency conference in Zug, Switzerland, the representative of the bank gave a Business Insider journalist an.
2018-6-24 06:17 | |
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Thomas Moser, a board director at the Swiss National Bank (SNB), believes that central banks’ interest in developing central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDCs) has now waned, Business Insider reports today, June 23.
2018-6-23 16:59 | |
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According to a board member at the Swiss National Bank, enthusiasm has waned for issuing a state-backed digital currency
2018-6-23 15:10 | |
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The board director for the central bank of Switzerland spoke firmly against the idea of having a national cryptocurrency, citing the novelty of blockchain technology at present.
2018-6-23 11:04 | |
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While cryptocurrencies have the potential to facilitate lightning fast payments across borders, reduce the cost of minting fiat money and drastically put inflation in check, the Swiss Central Bank board director, Thomas Moser has declared that digital currencies still do not have what it takes to be a national currency.
2018-6-23 01:45 | |
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Developers behind the privacy-focused crypto Decred have released details about the project's upcoming privacy rollout. The new features will include hiding user identities and jumbling customer transaction data together, making it harder to track specific coin movements.
A research report from crypto exchange Binance has claimed that the digital currency being developed by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) will be backed one-to-one by fiat, replace notes and coins in circulation, and operate on a two-tiered system.
Investors in messaging app Telegram's Gram token will reportedly receive the first batch of tokens starting October 31. Telegram has also informed investors that the Gram testnet will be made available a couple of weeks before the tokens are delivered.
Researchers at sharia advisory firm Amanie Advisors have published a white paper certifying that Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, Ether, is sharia compliant because of its utility token classification.
Through a partnership with the HackerOne bug bounty platform, the Libra Association is inviting the public to report vulnerabilities in the Libra network code, offering a max reward of $10,000.
Though the issue has since been resolved, crypto payments firm BitPay blocked a $100,000 donation made in an unnamed cryptocurrency to charity Amazon Watch, which is working to stop the fires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest.
Three unnamed members of the Libra Association, the group tasked with overseeing Facebook's Libra network, have considered leaving the group, citing disappointment related to crypto regulations and fears of backlash from publicly showing support for Libra.
