Lagarde: Tokenisation Key to Euro’s Future
February 23, 2026
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says that efforts to facilitate the use of distributed ledger technology infrastructure for the… Read More »
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says that efforts to facilitate the use of distributed ledger technology infrastructure for the… Read More »
Intraday liquidity management platform Finteum says it has breached the $1 billion per week threshold in weekly intraday FX swap… Read More »
The latest in our Voice of Experience series sees industry veteran Alan Konevsky dip into the early days of e-FX… Read More »
Following what the organisations term a “landmark trial”, Citi and Swift say they have proven the feasibility of settling payments… Read More »
In a speech that also floated tokenised assets as collateral, Sasha Mills, executive director of financial market infrastructure at the… Read More »
Distributed Ledger Technology-based payment systems provider Fnality has closed a $136 million Series C funding round, led by Wisdom Tree,… Read More »
Digital Asset, in collaboration with a consortium of financial institutions, has announced the successful completion of what it terms “a… Read More »
BNP Paribas has become the latest participant on the Sterling Fnality Payment System, joining and then completing an on-chain interest… Read More »
A senior Bank of England official gave digital assets and DLT technology a vote of confidence and said it’s time… Read More »
It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it… Sometimes what a regulator says and what they actually encourage… Read More »
A new white paper from the Futures Industry Association (FIA) argues the cleared derivatives industry is at an inflection point… Read More »
After what the firms describe as a successful proof-of-concept, DLT-based payments system Fnality has joined the FX payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements says that it, with its central bank partners, has successfully demonstrated how wholesale payment infrastructures,… Read More »
CME Group and Google Cloud have unveiled an extension to their existing partnership with the announcement that they are piloting… Read More »
Central counterparties will play a valuable role in linking centralised and decentralised markets as well as the embedding of distributed… Read More »
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has unveiled ComposerX, a suite of platforms designed to streamline token creation and… Read More »
Goldman Sachs’ digital assets business has unveiled plans to spin-out its wholly-owned technology platform, GS DAP, with the intention of… Read More »
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a report looking at a subset of tokenisation initiatives, specifically using distributed ledger… 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 »
