During a hearing of the European Parliament’s ECON committee yesterday, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone made a forceful...
Features
Siemens, Evonik pilot multi- bank CBMT deposit tokens in push for a tokenized SEPA
Siemens and chemicals firm Evonik have conducted the first live transactions using Commercial Bank Money Tokens (CBMT) as part of a...
Popular
SAP leads Pharma Supply Chain blockchain
Frequently drugs are returned to pharmaceutical manufacturers, and instead of destroying them they re-sell them. While the proportion of...
Insurance
Hungary’s central bank organizes DLT for mortgage insurance
This week the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) unveiled a new DLT platform involving the country’s main banks and insurance firms. It...
Supply Chain
Kraken launches perpetual futures on tokenized stocks, xStocks
Crypto exchange Kraken has launched perpetual futures (perps) for 10 of its tokenized stocks, xStocks, which it acquired last year and...
Health
Tassat partners Veuu for DLT-based health insurance payments
Tassat provides a private blockchain banking solution that enables clients of the same bank to pay each other instantly using tokenized...
Banking
ECB highlights need for EU tokenized deposit regulation to avoid fragmentation
During a hearing of the European Parliament’s ECON committee yesterday, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone made a forceful...
Investment
Tokenized real estate fund issued on Goldman Sachs distributed ledger
Real estate investment manager LRC Group is launching a blockchain native fund on Goldman Sachs’ GS DAP distributed ledger...
Tech-Media-Telecom
Stellar DF invests in German tokenization firm Cashlink
The Stellar Development Foundation is investing in Cashlink, the German company responsible for some of the highest profile European...
Recent Stories
Macau goes live on mBridge cross border CBDC platform
On Tuesday Macau officially went live on mBridge, the DLT-based cross border payment system that uses central bank digital currencies...
Visa tests private stablecoin settlement on Canton with Brale. The question is why?
Visa announced a proof of concept with Brale to explore settlement using SBC, a dollar backed stablecoin issued by a Brale affiliate, on...
Digital euro in parliamentary vote this month
Yesterday, during a hearing of the ECON committee of the European Parliament, it was confirmed that the committee will vote on the...
Banks deploy consumer survey to fight stablecoin reward payments
As banks lobby against provisions in the Clarity Act that they say would let crypto exchanges like Coinbase pay interest-like rewards on...
UK House of Lords urges fewer restrictions on bank issued stablecoins
The UK’s House of Lords has been conducting an inquiry that is reviewing regulatory proposals for UK stablecoins and today the...
Mastercard expands card settlement hours via stablecoins
Mastercard has announced the use of stablecoins to enable intraday and weekend settlement between card issuers and acquirers. It follows...
Rigid stablecoin reserve rules can increase default risk, BIS paper finds
Regulators in the EU, US and elsewhere are moving toward combinations of liquidity and capital thresholds for stablecoin issuers, but...
Minneapolis Fed president likens stablecoins to casino chips
Neel Kashkari, President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, likened stablecoins to casino chips during a Bank of Korea event. The...
Ant, KASIKORNBANK use JP Morgan’s Kinexys for cross border DLT payments
Today Thailand’s second largest bank, KASIKORNBANK (KBank), announced a collaboration with Ant International for AI and cross...