This week Moody’s published a mini report on the tokenization of alternative assets. It finds that blockchain-based secondary...
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HSBC leads Series C funding of HQLAᵡ DLT collateral platform
Today HQLAᵡ announced it closed its Series C funding round led by HSBC. The startup didn’t mention the amount or valuation. Many...
Clearstream to expand its D7 digital securities platform to guarantees with Digital Vault Services...
Clearstream, the post trade arm of the Deutsche Börse, is planning to invest in Digital Vault Services (DVS), the centralized...
Aptos targets institutional digital assets. Partners Microsoft, SK Telecom, Brevan Howard
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain founded by part of Meta’s Diem team and uses Move, the smart contract language created for the Diem...
Lummis, Gillibrand stablecoin bill deep dive- precludes BigTech
Yesterday U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (Republican) and Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat) released a bipartisan Bill, the Lummis...
Bank of Israel hopes CBDC will make banks more competitive. Opens sandbox
You won’t hear many central banks encourage depositors to switch their money from bank accounts to money market funds. But...
Hong Kong provides DLT guidance. Banks can use public blockchain with caveats
Yesterday the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) provided guidance to banks on their use of distributed ledger technology...
New Zealand launches CBDC consultation
Yesterday the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) launched its second central bank digital currency (CBDC) consultation. Since...
Bundesbank partners MIT for CBDC privacy research
Yesterday, the Deutsche Bundesbank announced plans to work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Digital...
Figure rolls out blockchain mortgage registry system to lending partners
Two years ago, we wrote about Figure Lending using the Provenance blockchain to log the current ownership of a...