Sep 28, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
Credit Suisse, a Switzerland-based financial services company, announced that along with R3,IpreoandSymbiont, it has completed successful initial stage of a project to demonstrate how blockchain technology can be used to...
Russian and South African CSDs team up on distributed ledger technology
Sep 28, 2016 04:58 am UTC| Digital Currency
Strate and National Securities Depository, the Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) of South Africa and Russia respectively have partnered to develop solutions utilizing distributed ledger technologies (DLT). The two...
SEC’s November fintech forum to discuss blockchain technology
Sep 28, 2016 04:24 am UTC| Digital Currency
The US Securities and Exchange Commission today announcedit will host a public forum to discuss financial technology (Fintech) innovation in the financial services industry.The forum will be held at the SECs Washington...
Sep 27, 2016 12:51 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Microsoft Corp. and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced a collaboration on blockchain technology, during Sibos, an annual conference organized by SWIFT for the financial industry, in order to transform trade finance...
CGI implements Ripple Validator Node
Sep 27, 2016 11:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
CGI, a Canadian IT consulting company, has announced that it is the first commercial enterprise to implement the Ripple Validator Node which will provide banking clients with a trusted network partner for Ripples...
CLS to develop blockchain-based payment netting service
Sep 27, 2016 10:51 am UTC| Digital Currency
CLS Group, a leading provider of risk management and operational services for the global foreign exchange market, has revealed its plan to release a payment netting service, CLS Netting, using distributed ledger technology...
Soramitsu contributes code to Hyperledger blockchain project
Sep 27, 2016 09:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
Japanese fintech startup Soramitsu has announced the open sourcing and proposal of a distributed ledger technology platform called Iroha to the Hyperledger Project. The startup is already a member of the Hyperledger...
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