Finastra, R3 team up to build DLT platform for syndicated loan market
Oct 09, 2017 05:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
Finastra, a fintech company formed through the collaboration of D+H and Misys, together with seven leading banks and enterprise software firm R3, is working to create a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the...
REX withdraws SEC filing to create bitcoin ETF
Oct 09, 2017 04:31 am UTC| Digital Currency
REX, a US-based financial services firm, has withdrawn its effort to create bitcoin exchange-traded futures (ETFs), CoinDesk reported. In a letter, a company executive requested to withdraw the amendment linked to two...
Bank of England to conduct DLT PoC with Chain
Oct 09, 2017 03:48 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Bank of England is working on a proof of concept to enable privacy amongst participants in a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based system. At a meeting for FinTech contacts of the BoEs Agency for the South East...
FxWirePro: ETH/USD faces strong resistance at 50-DMA, decisive break above targets 337
Oct 06, 2017 11:00 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/USD is hovering around 300 levels on Friday as it faces strong resistance at 50-DMA (Kraken). Ichimoku analysis (Daily chart): Tenkan-Sen: 294.50 Kijun-Sen: 259.63 On the upside, resistance is seen at 307...
FxWirePro: BTC/USD breaches trend line resistance at 4384, close above targets 4480
Oct 06, 2017 10:40 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD is trading higher on Friday as it broke above the trend line joining 4979.90 and 4453. It is currently trading at 4408 levels at the time of writing (Bitstamp). Ichimoku analysis of daily chart: Tenkan Sen:...
Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – October 6th, 2017
Oct 06, 2017 10:06 am UTC| Digital Currency
CFTC questions cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on ethers June flash crash The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested information from leading digital asset exchange company Coinbase regarding a flash...
Bank of Canada, R3 publish whitepaper on blockchain research initiative ‘Project Jasper’
Oct 06, 2017 09:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Bank of Canada and enterprise software firm R3 have released a white paper on Project Jasper a Canadian experiment with distributed ledger technology (DLT) for domestic interbank payments settlement. The paper...
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