Bitcoin exchange Gatecoin just announced that GUPBTC markets are now live. GUPs will trade as IOUs until April 29th, 2017. The Gatecoin team announced the launch of IOU trading for Matchpool’s Guppy token (GUP) on their exchange. This comes just a week after the ethereum-based matchmaking platform raised ETH 125,000 (~USD 5.5 million) during their…
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Financial technology provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust and Banco Santander today announced the successful completion of a pilot which employs a blockchain technology to enhance global proxy vote transparency and analytics. The pilot, Broadridge’s first application of blockchain technology, provides transparency by adapting distributed ledger technology capabilities to provide daily…
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Lykke, a Swiss Fintech company building a global blockchain-powered marketplace, announced that its open-source platform and apps can be integrated to existing products to accelerate performance. The Lykke Accelerator is an exciting step,” says Richard Olsen, founder and CEO of Lykke and former CEO of OANDA. “We’ve spent the last year building a world-class platform,…
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This morning the Crypto Valley Association (or CVA) was launched in Zug, Switzerland to accelerate the development, deployment, and funding of blockchain technology. CVA is a major, government-backed institution for blockchain with several major blue chip members, a plethora of disruptive startups, and globally recognized leadership. The CVA will be led by renown blockchain guru,…
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The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), a non-profit trade association, just announced that Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG) has joined the organization as its newest corporate member. BIG’s proprietary Blockbits, BitRank and Qlue products provide real-time search, data analytics and risk assessment for blockchain-based data and assets, such as bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions, providing essential…
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Irish Funds just announced that it is working with industry participants and Deloitte to develop a blockchain proof of concept for regulatory reporting. The project, which will focus on the Resident Investment Fund Returns (Money Market & Investment Funds Returns Reporting- MMIF) regulation, will result in the design and development of a proof of concept…
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The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), a non-profit Trade Association, announced a new working group that will focus on native assets riding upon public blockchains, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, and more. The Blockchain Assets Working Group is chaired by Chris Burniske, Blockchain Products Lead at ARK Investment Management LLC, and will explore a number…
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Deutsche Börse Group has developed a concept for riskless transfer of commercial bank money via an infrastructure based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). By combining blockchain technology with its post-trade infrastructure, Deutsche Börse aims to achieve efficiencies while at the same time investigating possible new business opportunities enabled by this technology. DLT is often perceived…
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Four members of the Liquidity Alliance (LA), an international group of central securities depositories (CSDs), are cooperating with Deutsche Börse to launch an initiative leveraging blockchain technology to ease cross-border mobilisation of security collateral. With the planned solution, The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (CDS), Clearstream (Luxembourg), Strate (South Africa) and VPS (Norway) want to…
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Synechron Inc., the digital, business consulting and technology services provider, has today announced its predictions of top Financial Services Trends for 2017, supported by survey data from TABB Group. The survey of over 200 senior-level, global financial services business and IT decision-makers across the U.S. U.K. and Europe found 38% of respondents placed Regulation as…
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