Citi Survey Finds Reversal of Thinking on CBDCs
September 5, 2024
A new survey from Citi’s Securities Services division finds that investors are backing the commercialisation of distributed ledger technology and… Read More »
A new survey from Citi’s Securities Services division finds that investors are backing the commercialisation of distributed ledger technology and… Read More »
UBS and CIBC have settled the world’s first intraday FX swap to be executed on a regulated venue. The EUR/USD… Read More »
Global Digital Finance (GDF), a members’ association promoting digital assets in financial services, has unveiled a partnership with the FIX… Read More »
Last week, the Global FX Division, part of GFMA, held its third Next Step FX gathering in London. Eva Szalay… Read More »
Following a successful pilot in late 2022, Project mBridge, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform created by the BIS… Read More »
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has taken aim at moves to introduce distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based settlement, arguing the… Read More »
Standard Chartered says it has successfully completed euro-denominated cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and Singapore, making it the first euro… Read More »
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) enterprise and services firm R3 has launched R3 Digital Markets, a suite of end-to-end solutions for… Read More »
More evidence that the TradFi world is looking to the digital assets space to help overhaul tis payments and settlements… Read More »
HSBC has announced the first trades tokenising the ownership of physical gold custodied in its London vault, using distributed ledger… Read More »
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced that on 1 December 2023, it will launch phase III of Project Helvetia,… Read More »
Infrastructure provider DTCC has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire blockchain-based Securrency, a deal that the firm says allows… Read More »
Baton Systems has launched a digital solution providing firms with automated and real-time control of their cash settlements that it… Read More »
Three traditional finance financial market infrastructures (FMIs); Clearstream, DTCC and Euroclear, have published a paper on the state of the… Read More »
Swift has released the results from a series of experiments that it says show its infrastructure can seamlessly facilitate the… Read More »
Deutsche Börse has agreed to acquire the outstanding shares in FundsDLT, a joint venture it launched in early 2020 with… Read More »
With The Full FX View The Global Foreign Exchange Division’s Market Architecture Group (MAG) has published a third study… Read More »
The Banque de France (BdF) has published a second report resulting from its second set of experiments with tokenisation and… Read More »
The New York Innovation Centre (NYIC), which operates under the auspices of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has… Read More »
Are US equity markets throwing a giant spanner in the works of the FX market, or providing it with potentially… Read More »
R3 has announced the next generation of its Corda platform, which is designed, the firm says, for global financial market… Read More »
In the latest edition of the Unfiltered video series, Baton Systems’ CEO Arjun Jayaram talks to Colin Lambert about how… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements has announced the conclusion of Project Meridian, which investigated how recent advances in financial technology… Read More »
ISDA has published new standard documentation for the trading of digital asset derivatives, alongside a whitepaper that addresses some of… Read More »
Baton Systems has named Ravindra Madduri as global head of product. He will be based in London and report to… Read More »
Imperium Markets has joined Australia’s Digital Finance Co-Operative Research Centre (DFCRC), it says, to advance Australia’s first pilot and accelerate… Read More »
Finastra has unveiled a collaboration with Fragmos Chain, a blockchain platform, to provide its customers with an out-of-the-box integration to… Read More »
DBS says it has become the first bank in Asia to complete an intraday repo transaction on JP Morgan’s Onyx… Read More »
HSBC and Wells Fargo say the blockchain solution they launched in 2021 on Baton’s Core-FX solution has been expanded to… Read More »
How realistic is the prospect of the “real” FX market moving to a 24/7 model? Obviously, there are places to… Read More »
Fintechs Fnality and Finteum have announced the completion of a successful proof of concept (POC) involving what they say is… Read More »
There are a lot of initiatives underway in the FX payments and settlement space, but the sense is that the… Read More »
A new report by investment management firm PGIM, which manages over $1.4 trillion, finds “little evidence that cryptocurrencies offer any… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)… Read More »
The latest in our video series is live, with Colin Lambert talking to Alex Knight, head of EMEA and global… Read More »
Treasury and technology teams from 14 banking groups, including NatWest, BNY Mellon’s corporate treasury function, Barclays, Citi have trialled a… Read More »
With settlement risk a hot topic in the FX industry, Colin Lambert talks with Alex Knight, head of EMEA at… Read More »
LCH SA has connected its CDS Clear service to Baton Systems’ Core-Collateral ecosystem, which seeks to transform post-trade processing using… Read More »
As the US government advances its analysis into the risks and benefits of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), The Depository… Read More »
Ronn Baker has joined Baton Systems as senior director of North American sales. He joins from Wells Fargo, he joined… Read More »
Nomura Holdings has announced plans to reorganise its Future Innovation Company into a newly established Digital Company, effective April 1,… Read More »
A new paper seeking to identify the crucial elements required for a successful adoption of wholesale central bank digital currencies… Read More »
A consortium led by fintech iCapital has been unveiled to develop a distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution for the alternative… Read More »
The last few months have seen more crypto applications and ideas deployed into the FX market, most prominently in the… Read More »
The Banque de France says it has successfully completed the last experiment of its programme for interbank settlements in Central… Read More »
State Street and Vanguard have completed the margin calculation process for a live trade of a 30-day FX forward contract… Read More »
FundsDLT and UBS Asset Management say they have successfully concluded a proof-of-concept pilot that aimed to explore a front-to-back blockchain-based investment fund distribution… Read More »
Deutsche Börse says it plans to launch a regulatory compliant, fully digital post-trade platform called D7, anchored in the recently… Read More »
Following what it says was a successful “proof of concept” phase, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is taking… Read More »
Six Digital Exchange (SDX) has formally received regulatory approval from Switzerland’s Finma to operate a digital assets exchange and central… Read More »
