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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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JULY 6, 2020

The feature was shelved at that time, as Expedia’s systems weren’t set up to accept bitcoin payments. Meanwhile, regulated crypto asset program Currency.com is now the holder of a Gibraltar distributed ledger technology (DLT) license, according to a press release.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

SWIFT India , a joint venture between SWIFT SCRL and several banks, plans to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) in partnership with blockchain startup MonetaGo , Cointelegraph reported. ” Giga Watt , a bitcoin mining firm, has reportedly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, CoinDesk reported.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted the first “banking and securities licenses” to two blockchain companies: SEBA Crypto AG and Sygnum AG. The firms will be the first registered in Switzerland as broker-dealers with a blockchain focus. When you go on Gemini it’s the quoted price there as well.

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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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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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JUNE 8, 2020

In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported. The firms are operating using distributed ledger technology (DLT), which has been growing — in 2018, the number of firms using it sat at only 27 percent by comparison.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is aiming to boost innovation in cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology (DLT), by easing some of the existing rules. But Faitaua said that has never owned any bitcoin, and any claims to the contrary are simply false. “A It is a scam,” he said.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Billon , which created the first enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) system, announced that it is one of six companies that have been selected to participate in the Elevator Lab Partnership Program. It was chosen from a group of over 280 applications.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2018

Bitcoin got a jump, spiking more than $400 to about a two-week high and nearing $7,000. The currency to be released by the Bank of Thailand, according to The Next Web , is based off an open source blockchain that the site said is “eerily reminiscent of Ripple ,” the banking ledger from Ripple Labs.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Bitcoin doesn’t necessarily have the blessing of government agencies, but what about blockchain? It seems governments are a bit more open to distributed ledger technology (DLT), though that doesn’t mean blockchain companies get a free pass with regulators. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton spoke Monday (Jan.

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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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The Paypers

JULY 29, 2016

(The Paypers) Bank of Canada and five other Canadian banks have revealed experiments with distributed ledger technology (DLT), the blockchain and digital currencies.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Blockchain beyond bitcoin. One estimate that debuted this week via Business Intelligence and Strategy Research (aka BIS Research) states that the global automotive blockchain market will reach $1.6 Patent and Trademark Office that would leverage blockchain to secure user authentication efforts and boost security initiatives.

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JUNE 13, 2018

It’s not entirely clear yet how — or if — blockchain will transform the financial services market, but that hasn’t stopped industry players from scrambling to get a leg up on the technology and ahead of the competition.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Just like the volatility of bitcoin, the world of blockchain is no stable place. Hype over distributed ledger technology (DLT) has certainly led to a bump in shares for companies operating in the space — and even for some companies with seemingly no connection to the tool. Blockchain Ups.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“Today, authorities around the world are grappling with the rise of digital currencies and decentralized finance based on both emerging technologies — particularly various combinations of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain and advances in traditional centralized systems underpinning finance,” according to the report.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

SWIFT India, a joint venture between SWIFT SCRL and several banks, plans to test distributed ledger technology (DLT) with the help of MonetaGo, Cointelegraph reported. The FinTech firms technology will reportedly work with SWIFT’s standardized financial messages, which serve the market in India.

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JULY 5, 2018

It seems that blockchain may never leave the lab and enter the real world. And, indeed, this week’s Blockchain Tracker continues its coverage of ongoing tests and trails of blockchain solutions. Take a look at the ongoing tests — and the projects that made it out of the lab — in the breakdown below. Testing Continues.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Kevin Castel, ruled that Telegram should not distribute its tokens until the court makes its decision on the case. Telegram had already agreed not to launch its TON blockchain project and gram issuance until April 30, 2020, offering investors 77 percent of their funds back if they disagree with the delay. The judge hearing the case, P.

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JUNE 13, 2018

While banks have been investigating and investing in distributed ledger technology (DLT) the team at Ripple does not believe that DLTs are likely to make an appearance any time soon when it comes to processing cross-border payments. The feedback from the banks is you can’t put the whole world on a blockchain.”.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Every day the world hears about another blockchain project in the works or another distributed ledger technology consortium forming. Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. “The Mastercard. Reports said the filing, dated Nov. 9 with the U.S.

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Clearly Payments

AUGUST 29, 2024

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a digital form built on blockchain technology of a country’s fiat currency issued and regulated by the central bank. This article covers what CBDCs are, how they have evolved until 2024, their impact on payments, and the future they could shape. What Are CBDCs?

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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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MAY 3, 2020

Block.one, which is behind the EOSIO (EOS) protocol, now has a patent for a blockchain-based bidding system for promotional exposure for social media, according to Cointelegraph. According to Block.one, the first hash value of the original content will be stored on the distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

According to Coindesk , One Alpha found that 140 active blockchain-related companies in Israel received $1.3 And New Zealand private bank ASB has launched a shipment of meat from its home country to South Korea through the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT). billion worth of investments.

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