Category: Blockchain

smartTrade strengthens senior management and sales team
February 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

smartTrade Technologies launches its blockchain-based post-trade solution

smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, just announced the launch of its brand new blockchain-based solution. The new and fully integrated smartTrade solution captures and sends post-trade data to a private and permissioned Distributed Ledger. This guarantees all trades are recorded and cannot be altered. For smartTrade’s clients, it’s an additional proof of…

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January 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain travel company Winding Tree announces strategic partnerships with Zeppelin_OS and RSK

Winding Tree, the blockchain-based travel distribution platform, announced a strategic partnership with both Zeppelin_OS and RSK, blockchain technological companies. Winding Tree removes third party intermediaries, in order to bring innovation back into the travel industry, while at the same time significantly reducing costs for consumers. Winding Tree has already announced partnerships with top travel related…

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January 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NSD and CSD community advance Blockchain for post-trade

The CSD Working Group on DLT, which includes National Settlement Depository (NSD), and SWIFT announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In addition to NSD, the CSD Working Group on DLT includes Strate (the CSD of the South African Republic), SIX Securities Services (the international CSD located in Switzerland), Nasdaq (CSD in…

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TechFinancials rocket
January 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials shares soar on increased Cedex ICO size

Shares of binary options technology (and more recently Blockchain tech) provider TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) were soaring by 28% to an all time high of 37 pence on Friday morning, after the company announced that it was increasing the size of the planned token sale for Cedex Holdings Ltd. TechFinancials recently invested in Cedex, which is setting…

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January 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SETL and OFI AM process Blockchain transactions on IZNES fund platform

IZNES, the pan-European platform for funds powered by SETL’s blockchain technology, announced that it has now started to process live transactions. OFI Asset Management has successfully used the IZNES system in a series of trials with selected clients. Following the development and integration of the IZNES platform with OFI Asset Management. Other asset managers in…

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January 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BNP Paribas Asset Management completes end-to-end fund transaction test using Blockchain

BNP Paribas Asset Management announced that it has successfully completed a full end-to-end fund transaction test late last year, using blockchain technology. The test has been conducted leveraging on BNP Paribas Securities Services’ blockchain programme, Fund Link and FundsDLT, a blockchain-based decentralized platform for fund transaction processing, which has been developed through collaboration between Fundsquare…

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Sirin Labs partners with Simplex to allow fiat-to-crypto conversion on FINNEY
January 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bancor protocol to power token conversion for Sirin Labs' Blockchain FINNEY smartphone

Bancor partners with Sirin Labs to accelerate blockchain adoption through first holistic mobile experience on FINNEY phones Bancor, the standard for Smart Tokens which are autonomously convertible, just announced that it is partnering with Sirin Labs, the creator of FINNEY blockchain smartphone, in order to bring the first complete blockchain mobile experience to the market.…

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January 09, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

KodakCoin - an old "giant" in the new Blockchain game

Kodak was once the most powerful photography company, tracing its roots back to the middle of the1880s. While Kodak may have been forgotten by some people due to the "smartphone era", the company is now entering what most technology companies cannot get enough of, i.e. Blockchain and ICOs. Today, on 9th January, 2018, Kodak announced…

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January 09, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Augmate and Maximilian Ventures partner to promote Blockchain development in Latin America

Partners to provide economic development for Latin America’s growing blockchain & distributed ledger technology ecosystem Augmate announced a partnership with Maximilian Ventures to promote blockchain and distributed ledger technology development in Mexico and throughout Latin America. The partnership will focus on investment, infrastructure, and job creation to develop Latin America as a global leader in…

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January 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Elering AS and WePower to test large scale tokenization of energy data on the Blockchain in Estonia

Elering AS, an independent electricity and gas system operator in Estonia, and WePower, a blockchain based green energy trading platform that aims to drive global green energy adoption and promote sustainable living, have announced a pilot project to test the large scale tokenization of Energy data on the blockchain in Estonia. This project is the…

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