Swift Starts to Build Blockchain-Based Ledger
March 31, 2026
Following completion of the design phase of its blockchain-based shared ledger, Swift says it is now actively building the first… Read More »
Following completion of the design phase of its blockchain-based shared ledger, Swift says it is now actively building the first… Read More »
Legendary American macro whizz Stan Druckenmiller is no fan of bitcoin, and yet, while maintaining that as a store of… Read More »
The Irony of Ironies. Readers of this column will be familiar with my tendency to bang on about the benefits… Read More »
JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon was a vocal FUDster* for several years before embracing blockchain technology in the form of… Read More »
LMAX Group has unveiled Omnia Exchange, a new infrastructure layer that the firm says will allow any user “to convert… Read More »
Crypto prime broker Sage Capital Management has announced an expansion and refocusing on its business by offering what the firm… Read More »
Car maker BMW has signed up with JP Morgan’s digital asset group, Kynexis Digital Payments, to deploy onchain, programmable payments… Read More »
BNP Paribas has joined the recently-announced MiCAR-compliant euro stablecoin project from nine European banks, as the name for the venture… Read More »
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Deutsche Börse has signed an agreement with Société Générale’s SG-Forge to accelerate the integration of token-based cash solutions with traditional… Read More »
Following what the organisations term a “landmark trial”, Citi and Swift say they have proven the feasibility of settling payments… Read More »
1:1 or 1:100? Stablecoins continue to have many doubters, despite the fact that the (current) US government is not one… Read More »
JP Morgan’s Kinexys platform has added two major players as German corporate Siemens and crypto market maker B2C2 both signed… Read More »
In the northern hemisphere it is very much the end of what many term the “stablecoin summer”, but it is… Read More »
With the vast majority of stablecoins backed by US dollars, nine European banks have formed a consortium to launch a… 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 »
Ant International has partnered with Standard Chartered to introduce an AI-powered treasury and FX management solution, integrating the bank’s liquidity… 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 »
Digital asset platform Zodia Markets has raised $18.25 million in a series A funding round to meet what the firm… Read More »
The one about technology So you don’t like digital assets? Probably because you are a profit centre for a firm… Read More »
Institutional investors have embraced stablecoins in the first six months of 2025 at a faster rate than ever, deploying these… Read More »
A new report stemming from the work of Project Guardian, led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), published by… Read More »
In the latest in The Full FX’s Inheritors Series, Catherine Bran, head of business development, APAC, at SmartTrade, talks to… Read More »
Fnality says it is collaborating with post-trade market infrastructure provider DTCC on the potential to integrate its wholesale payments system… Read More »
A new hat has been thrown into the increasingly crowded cross-border payment and faster settlement market, with a firm called… Read More »
JP Morgan Payments launched what it says is a brand new Accelerated Cross Currency Sweep (ACCS) solution in Asia Pacific,… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements says that it, with its central bank partners, has successfully demonstrated how wholesale payment infrastructures,… Read More »
Payment technology provider Fnality has unveiled the Sterling Fnality Payment System (£FnPS), a new process that brings programmability and conditionality… Read More »
If POTUS says it’s good, who are we to argue? At a recent networking event held by a digital asset… Read More »
US regulators have opened the door for banks and savings associations to engage in digital asset activities including custody and… Read More »
Foreign exchange flows are heavily reliant on trade flows – this is the argument that has allowed currencies to be… Read More »
Standard Chartered has launched a new transactional FX suite of solutions aimed at its financial institution, non-bank financial institution, paytech… Read More »
Michelle Neal is stepping down from her role as head of the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of… Read More »
Two weeks ago I wrote about the feedback initiative from the GFXC, part of which covered FX settlement, within which… Read More »
JP Morgan has announced a rebrand of its blockchain-based platform Onyx as the offering moves to its next chapter –… Read More »
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a report looking at a subset of tokenisation initiatives, specifically using distributed ledger… Read More »
With the world and payments and settlements rapidly evolving, the Bank of England says it has been “encouraged” by the… Read More »
Messaging utility Swift says financial institutions will have the ability to use its platform to conduct pilot transactions for the… Read More »
Following a series of interoperability experiments, Swift is now targeting digital and fiat currency inter-operability on its network, to provide… Read More »
The subject of wholesale central bank digital currencies has gained new momentum this year and like so much in the… Read More »
FX ECN DMALink is partnering with cross-border payments solution provider Ibanera to deliver a service the firms say is aimed… Read More »
Following on from the findings of Project Meridien, which used real-estate transfers as its basis, the London and Eurosystem BIS… Read More »
Following a successful pilot in late 2022, Project mBridge, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform created by the BIS… Read More »
Crown Agents Bank has announced a “strategic partnership” with AbbeyCross to provide FX payments to emerging markets via the latter’s… Read More »
There has been a lot of noise around central bank digital currencies in recent years, and central banks continue to… Read More »
Crypto trading firm Zodia Markets has integrated with blockchain-based payments provider Fireblocks in what the firms claim is “a first-of-its-kind… Read More »
Settlement services provider RTGSglobal has announced the successful completion of a second instant cross-border settlement transaction through its network, involving… Read More »
By Lisa Danino-Lewis, Chief Growth Officer, CLS As we approach 2024 amid uncertain market conditions and an ever-changing geopolitical and… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video, Alex Knight, head of EMEA at Baton Systems, talks to Colin Lambert about what is… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video, John Stead, pre-sales and marketing director at smartTrade Technologies, talks to Colin Lambert about a… Read More »
