ConsenSys

ConsenSys, the industry-leading blockchain software company, announced the acquisition of Quorum®, the enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain developed by J.P. Morgan. ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company enabling developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web With the addition ofContinue…

Green Bonds

Blockchain technology continues to disrupt the finance sector through decentralization, immutability, cost/capital efficiencies and aims to offer more transparency to green bonds investments. The Green Assets Wallet (GAW) platform is built on blockchain to make the investments into green bonds more transparent and immutable. The platform on the blockchain will give theContinue…

FXSPOTSTREAM adds Société Générale as the 15th liquidity provider. FXSpotStream is a bank owned consortium founded in 2011 operating as a market utility, and providing multibank FX streaming, RFS and matching services supporting trading in FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDF/NDS and Precious Metals Spot and Swaps. Société Générale is theContinue…

R3 Co-Founder Todd McDonald and Kaleido Founder Steve Cerveny announced the companies formally partner to offer R3’s Corda Enterprise software on Kaleido’s digital platform. We know that R3 is a enterprise blockchain software firm which works with a global ecosystem of more than 350 participants across multiple industries from bothContinue…

Thanks to the technology infrastructure created by SIA, 55 Italian banks will use the new management process for the reconciliation of reciprocal accounts. SIA (a subsidiary of CDP Equity – European leader in the design, creation and management of technology infrastructures and services for Financial Institutions, Central Banks, Corporates andContinue…

The French Federation of Blockchain Professionals (FFPB) has just been established. Rémy André Ozcan and the French Deputy Jean-Michel Mis are behind the creation of the French Federation of Blockchain Professionals. Who are these two protagonists who have just launched this initiative? Jean-Michel Mis is a member of the LawsContinue…

ing

ING has invested in securities lending platform HQLAx, which went live in December 2019. Their blockchain team developed the initial version of the HQLAx application, which uses blockchain to facilitate efficient and high-speed trading of high quality liquid assets (HQLA). HQLAx continues to expand its product footprint to address specific painContinue…

Alpha Sigma

Alpha Sigma Capital combines executives from Wall Street, digital currency and private equity to fund blockchain companies that demonstrate promise. Alpha Sigma Capital (ASC), a new blockchain investment and digital currency hedge fund, officially launched on January 6, 2020, with a focus on delivering growth capital to blockchain companies withContinue…