CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

PYMNTS examines the latest initiatives that look to improve upon existing rails, or embrace new ones like blockchain and RTP. For some, that means embracing solutions built atop existing rails, or exploring new ones altogether. RTP Expands Across FI Base. Financial institutions (FIs) in the U.S.

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Finextra

JUNE 13, 2024

Brickken, a Barcelona-based startup pioneering in the tokenization of real-world assets, announced today its selection to participate in the European Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Regulatory Sandbox.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. TOMIA and Clear Embrace Blockchain for Telecom B2B Payments. As more payment use cases emerge from distributed ledger technology (DLT), some solution providers are looking toward industry-specific applications of blockchain.

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Payments Source

MAY 9, 2018

The banks contend distributed ledger technology (DLT) makes it easier to coordinate trade finance deals. And the use of smart contracts can help parties comply with contractual obligations such as staged payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. Some see distributed ledger technologies (DLT) as having the potential to drive industry-wide change.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Enterprise blockchain service provider Ripple on Thursday (Oct. Ripple describes its business model as using “technology to deliver financial solutions vital for businesses that were once only offered by multinational banks — without the cost and overhead of legacy systems. The service is not available to individuals.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The First Deputy Governor of the central bank of France, Denis Beau, spoke in support of a blockchain-based settlement system that would allow for faster transfers of euros, as well as be more cost-efficient, according to a report by Yahoo!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

News came recently, when it comes to patents tied to the blockchain landscape, that Thomson Reuters found China, and Alibaba , to have had an outsized showing. Last year, 56 percent of all blockchain patents issued trace their genesis from China. Alibaba Bets On The Blockchain. Yet, blockchain remains an area of interest.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Blockchain startup contests. With €15,000 in prize money ready to be handed out, BlockchainHub Graz and industry partners have announced a Blockchain Startup Contest. Enriching the ecosystem of decentralized technology is key in the fight, however. With the expansion of blockchain, this is likely not a one-off competition.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre, has teamed up with Solana Foundation, to enhance distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions and advance blockchain innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly garnering headlines and attention for its use cases beyond cryptocurrencies. Havell Rodrigues, CEO of Adjoint , a firm that offers blockchain solutions for treasury through smart contracts, noted in an interview with PYMNTS that the overall economy is moving toward a state of 24/7, always-on-demand functionality.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Trying to understand how both big & small players are using Blockchain to disrupt finance? We help large orgs understand, via next-gen market intelligence, the DLT systems of tomorrow. Since 2017, an influx of banks has helped almost double the number of primary markets DLT players. First name. Company Name. Phone number.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

The movement to bring blockchain to cross-border payments proceeds apace. Might SWIFT be giving a nod, at least partially, toward the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT)? In an interview with CNBC, SWIFT Asia-Pacific Managing Director Lisa O’Connor said that some of its members are indeed using blockchain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The financial services (FinServ) market is, by far, ahead of other industries when it comes to blockchain innovation and adoption, according to data released this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Emerging technologies, such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), increased international commerce, and new players like TransferWise, Alibaba and Amazon exacerbate these issues by introducing competition. Developments From Around The Smarter Payments World.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The World Blockchain Trade Consortium (WBTC) officially launched this week in Singapore with the aim to utilize blockchain technology to lower costs, reduce risk and increase funding to SMEs. and Portal Finance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico). Additional members are expected to be announced soon.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

BitPay has announced that OneGold, a marketplace that combines the benefits of gold and silver with blockchain-based digital assets, is now accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash. Founded by APMEX and Sprott, OneGold allows investors to buy, sell and redeem digital gold and other precious metals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) is working with blockchain and other tech companies on a program to help convey data about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which it is calling MiPasa. The program is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that will hopefully help with early detection of the virus and identifying carriers and hotspots.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have said, promotes visibility and makes it more difficult for data to be manipulated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Soon after Ripple announced a collaboration with MoneyGram, the blockchain firm revealed yet another partnership, this time in China. Reports in Blockchain News on Wednesday (Feb. Reports in Blockchain News on Wednesday (Feb. Cross-border payments related to China’s eCommerce market reached $1.07

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In other news, Singapore is utilizing blockchain to introduce changes to its renewal energy trade. And as of last week, companies can now use a blockchain-powered system for their REC trading. At this time, 15 of the world’s largest global banks are conducting end-to-end, structured user acceptance tests.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

ING Bank has signed a five-year deal with R3 that will allow it to roll out R3’s commercial blockchain platform, Corda Enterprise, throughout the bank globally, as well as launch CorDapps across several business areas.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

startup in the blockchain field called Axoni , Cryptovest reported. The firm plans to put the funds to use by growing its AxCore system, which is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), as well its smart contracting language called AxLang. (It HSBC , the U.K. bank, is backing a U.S. crude pipelines.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

On another note, Seagate Technologies is teaming up with IBM for a blockchain project that seeks to address the counterfeiting of hard drives, Cryptovest reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Accenture , a professional services firm, and TradeIX, a blockchain startup in global trade finance, have teamed up to become an onboarding partner for the Marco Polo Network , according to reports. Sweden’s central bank recently asked Accenture to help with the development of its e-krona pilot for digital currency, earlier this month.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

At the highest level blockchain proponents say that distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the ability to safely, and immutably, transfer data, payments and … well , seemingly any exchange of value and information that one might envision.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has thrown its support behind blockchain technology to expand trade finance availability across the globe, touting the technology as a way to address the “paper monster,” tap into data and support governments’ export/import initiatives. The report also expects $1.1

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the age of blockchain, all manner of physical assets are making the leap to bits and bytes. Blockchain can track transactions of all sorts and create a connected record — and that blockchain is rapidly cleaving from the cryptocurrency clamor to which it was once inextricably linked. percent pure.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Digitized, secure, and tamper-proof blockchain ledgers are promising to disrupt the database as we know it. We previously analyzed the 35+ industries where burgeoning blockchain startups are looking to make an impact. What is blockchain technology? Become an expert on blockchain in this briefing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

.” The Bank of Canada , TMX Group and Canada’s payment system teamed up for a test to settle and clear mock stocks using the blockchain, Bloomberg reported. The system, intended to be linked with market infrastructure already in place, enabled participants to settle mock securities with mock central bank cash.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The project tested the feasibility of conducting multilateral cross-currency transfers through the UDPN, involving both Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and non-DLT-based CBDC technologies. The PoC explored two models.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

As trade wars intensify, banks are looking to blockchain as a way to streamline international trade transactions. HSBC, Standard Chartered, and others belong to a range of consortia that have had successful pilots using distributed ledger technologies (DLT) to process live trade finance transactions. First Name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The digital currency in trial is supported by distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the two-part experiments also aim to examine the use cases of a DLT-enabled currency. Any bank can participate in the digital currency initiative, Ledger Insights reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has launched a new central blockchain securities lending platform in Israel, according to a press release — the first in the area. Now, the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) will help garner new blockchain advantages in direct peer-to-peer technology and more security through immutability.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

To that end, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a paper titled “Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into blockchain finance” that distributed ledger technology (DLT) could be a part of bank infrastructure and could be used to automate supervision.

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