Ant Financial turns to Standard Chartered for blockchain payments
Standard Chartered becomes core partner bank.
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Investment marketplace Newchip lands $2m in funding
Participants in round include JadeValue Fintech, Yeoman’s Capital and Polymath.
BBVA unveils Next Technologies for digital drive
Beeva and i4S become BBVA Next Technologies.
Crypto firm Fantom menaces rivals with $40m funding
Will build directed acyclic graph-based smart contract platform.
Luxoft smashes it with Smashing Ideas acquisition
Smashing, lovely, super. Purchase bolsters digital research, strategy and design.
New Spanish consortium Niuron aims to promote blockchain
It already has an ongoing project for ID verification.
BBVA and Repsol finalise revolving credit facility based on DLT
Negotiation, signing and settlement were done through several blockchain networks.
How to solve a problem like cryptocurrencies
Regulation is a catalyst to convert bad money into good.
VAKT on guard for commodities on blockchain
Partners with Deloitte and ThoughtWorks for post-trade processing.
Blockchain-based PlasmaBank breaks into Asia and Europe
The platform will also act as a marketplace for other financial products and bank accounts.
Blockchain insurance company B3i picks R3’s platform Corda
The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative makes its choice.
How blockchain could change the global remittance industry
The scope of blockchain for remittance is increasing in emerging markets.
AlphaPoint raises $15m in Series A funding round
The Series A round was led by Galaxy Digital Ventures.
MoneyConf 2018: spotlighting Ireland’s fintech factory
Dublin demonstrates its credentials as a world-leading centre for fintech and financial services.
Fintech funding round-up: 15 June 2018
USA! USA! Features Strangeworks, Eventador.io, SeriesX, Unchained Capital and ALTR.
Top fintech stories this week – 15 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Wirecard launches supply chain payment platform on blockchain
Solution focused on application to link merchants with producers.
R3 hits back at financial woe story
Company calls them “malicious rumours”.
Enterprise Ireland launches €750,000 fund for fintech start-ups
Applications will open on 19 June.
South African Ethereum test proves efficiency of blockchain-based payments for banks
A blockchain-based payments system tested last week outdid traditional payment networks.
Alternative investor DarcMatter and crypto fund #Hashed team up
Alternative investment platform DarcMatter teams with South Korea’s crypto fund #Hashed.
Italy’s banks set up their blockchain front line
With the support of R3, NTT and SIA, Italy has made the move onto blockchain.
Money20/20 Europe: stop the crypto tribalism
Welcome to polarised missives and glorified databases at the Amsterdam event.
Why blockchain could revolutionise trade finance documentation
Standards, regulation and a network all need to be fully achieved before widespread adoption.
Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange softly launches
It’s a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange.
Instarem buddies up with BeeTech for payments on blockchain
Will use Ripple’s network RippleNet for action in Asia-Pacific and South America.
Israel postpones cryptocurrency exchange regulations
Four month delay greeted with deep disdain by fintech firms.
CLS invests in blockchain software firm R3
Market infrastructure group provides financial support.
Deutsche Börse cuts 350 jobs to invest €270m in fintech
Interested in blockchain, big data, cloud computing, robotics and AI.
Disruption on its way, are banks ready?
A disruption is typically an opportunity long before it becomes a threat.
Interstellar crypto exchange sets its sights on the stars
Cameroon-based firm offers a Proxima Centauri update.
Top fintech stories this week – 25 May 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Commerzbank makes first major FX pilot transaction via blockchain
First deal involving a large German corporate.
IBM steps up AI and blockchain ambitions in France
Adding 1,800 jobs and new tech training.
Shared service centres key to supply chain blockchain
Exploring the potential of blockchain for SSCs.
Four Finastra’s a jolly good fintech fellow
And so say all of US. (Well, four firms do.)
Tradeshift Pay to take the pain from supply chain
Cloud platform will bring together supply chain finance and blockchain-based payments.
MUFG and Akamai plan new blockchain payments service
Aim to offer new network from fiscal year 2019.
Top fintech stories this week – 18 May 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plans blockchain securities lending platform
TASE is working with Accenture and The Floor. Platform powered by Intel.
