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John Kiff

Circle and Coinbase Open CENTRE Cross Border Stablecoin Network - 0 views

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    Blockchains may proliferate and compete across many different use cases, they would benefit from a common interoperable fiat stablecoin for major currencies that is anchored in a full reserve, transparent and compliant governance scheme.
John Kiff

Steampunk Settlement: Deploying Futuristic Technology to Achieve an Anachronistic Result - 0 views

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    In Greenwich Associates' "Steampunk Settlement: Deploying Futuristic Technology to Achieve an Anachronistic Result" they discuss the medieval results that come from the expensive deployment of futuristic technology, and challenge the idea that DLT could replace today's clearance and settlement infrastructure.
John Kiff

Assignats: The First Tokenization Transactions? - 0 views

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    Assignats were paper money backed by confiscated church properties and land, issued by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution.
John Kiff

The stablecoin market is booming - 0 views

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    Binance's Evolution of Stablecoins report finds that stablecoins are eating into the dominance of Bitcoin and Ethereum pairs, and have grown to represent 60% of traded volume, most of it in Tether.
John Kiff

IBM, Hyperledger Blockchain ID System for Banks Launches in Brazil - 0 views

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    CIP, a facilitator of Brazilian banking and financial infrastructure, has officially launched its blockchain ID platform via a partnership with IBM using Hyperledger Fabric.
John Kiff

Why Stablecoins Stand Out in the Cryptocurrency World - 0 views

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    The use of stablecoins for real-world purposes other than trading remains far off, some analysts and investors say, due to a lack of financial networks that can accept and use cryptocurrencies.
John Kiff

Coinbase Card Launches in Six European Countries - 0 views

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    Coinbase has launched its Visa debit card in six European countries. Cardholders in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands will be able to use the cards, which sync directly to their Coinbase accounts.
John Kiff

Legal & General Partners With Amazon to Use Blockchain for Pension Deals - 0 views

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    Amazon has partnered with Legal & General to create a blockchain system for managing corporate pension deals. The insurer will make use of the Amazon Managed Blockchain for its bulk annuity transactions.
John Kiff

ABX Gets Initial Approval For Crypto Asset Exchange - 0 views

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    The United Arab Emirates-based Arabian Bourse (ABX), set up under Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) aims to be a fully regulated crypto asset exchange and custodian.
John Kiff

Visa Enters The $125 Trillion Global Money Transfer Market With New Blockchain Product - 0 views

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    Visa is making transactions faster and more transparent with its newly launched DLT-based B2B Connect product that facilitates direct bank connections. Transactions settle quicker, in one to two days.
John Kiff

The Riksbank is planning to join the ECB's payment platform TIPS - 0 views

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    Within the coming years it may be possible for all Swedish bank customers to make payments to another bank instantly 24/7 every day of the year. This will become possible in that the Riksbank is planning to join the ECB's payment platform TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS).
John Kiff

Bitcoin Price: Does New Tether Market Cap ATH Suggest BTC is Next? - 0 views

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    It's common knowledge in the crypto market that the circulating supply of Tether has a direct impact on Bitcoin price. So with Tether's market cap spiking to a new YTD-high right now, should we expect BTC to follow closely behind?
John Kiff

Visa looks to speed up cross-border payments with new network launch - 0 views

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    Visa has launched a new network to help financial institutions process cross-border payments globally on behalf of corporate clients faster and at a lower operational cost. The Visa B2B Connect network launch covers 30 trade corridors globally and is expected to expand to 90 markets by year-end.
John Kiff

Metaco Offering Crypto Custody Insurance via Giant Broker Aon - 0 views

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    Reinsurer Aon has lined up a panel of insurers to provide cryptocurrency coverage for clients of Metaco, a digital asset custody technology firm. This group of mostly European insurers will offer a crime insurance product to institutions using Metaco's SILO solution for so-called hot and cold (online and offline) wallets.
John Kiff

The Rick Santorum-backed coin for Catholics - 0 views

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    Rick Santorum is sitting on the advisory board of a company and soon-to-be digital coin (stablecoin, specifically) called Cathio, a "new payment, remittance and funding platform which provides efficient, secure, and transparent movement of funds within the Catholic world."
John Kiff

Korea's Biggest Bank Is Preparing to Custody Digital Assets - 0 views

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    Kookmin and Atomics Lab will develop digital asset custody services that combine Atomics Lab technology and KB Kookmin Bank's internal control infrastructure and information protection technologie
John Kiff

Visa Launches Out b.yond Financial Platform - 0 views

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    To let businesses quickly deploy digital payment services, a consortium of major companies is rolling out a new financial innovation platform called b.yond. Global Processing Services, Pannovate, Cornercard, MeaWallet, Modulr, AllPay and W2 Global are founding partners of the consortium in collaboration with Visa.
John Kiff

USC Project Seeks to Disrupt Traditional Wholesale Banking - 0 views

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    The essence of the USC project is to create blockchain-based cryptocurrencies to make it easier for international banks to settle various transactions between each other. USCs are 100% fiat-backed currencies held in respective central banks with convertibility into fiat currency at par guaranteed at all times.
John Kiff

Yahoo Japan-Backed Exchange Launches Crypto-Yen Markets and Margin Trading - 0 views

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    Yahoo Japan's trading platform Taotao is open offering BTC and ETH trading while also providing users with margin trading available in litecoin (LTC), ripple (XRP) and bitcoin cash (BCH).
John Kiff

What a debut securitisation tells us about fintech - 0 views

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    The £259m Lendinvest securitisation is backed by buy-to-let loans. It's worth briefly going into its model, because it illustrates the basic point of fintech: it's not so much about new things, as the absence of old things, plus securitisation.
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