Yesterday Bloomberg reported that enterprise blockchain firm R3 has held early talks with representatives of Ava Labs (affiliated with...
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BRICS+ expands plans from DLT payments to DLT clearing and depositary
Following this week’s BRICS+ meetings in Kazan, Russia, the group published a 136-point statement, with a small part of it...
AIIB digital bond issued via Euroclear reaches $500m after $200m tap
In August the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) issued a $300 million Digitally Native Note (DNN)...
Cross border payments: Citi spotlights DLT. FSB reports on G20 progress
During the past week Citi and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) have published separate reports on cross border payments. Both papers...
SEC outlines criteria for SAB 121 digital asset custody exemptions
More than two years ago, the SEC published accounting guidance, SAB 121, regarding how listed companies should disclose crypto-assets...
Garanti BBVA partners IBM, Ripple for digital asset custody
Turkey’s Garanti BBVA launched its Garanti BBVA Digital Assets as part of its fintech subsidiary last year. It went live with its wallet...
Standard Chartered Securities Services says new DLT-based system is already profitable
The securities services arm of Standard Chartered has a three-pronged strategy for adopting blockchain. Its first product is a DLT-based...
Visa sees the ‘stablecoin sandwich’ as path to stablecoins going mainstream
While stablecoins offer cheap and fast cross border payments, their usability drawbacks have prevented them from going mainstream, until...
Eurex Clearing trials wholesale CBDC as part of ECB trials
Eurex Clearing integrated the Banque de France’s wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) as part of the Eurosystem’s trials for...
Swift could integrate with mBridge CBDC cross border payment system?
During a panel at the SIBOS banking event today, Mu Changchun said that the mBridge cross border CBDC payment system could connect to...