Search Results for: Distributed ledger technology
ASIC: Evaluating distributed ledger technology
March 20th, 2017
ASIC has today released an information sheet on distributed ledger technology (DLT), also known as blockchain technology. Read Information Sheet 219 Evaluating distributed ledger technology (INFO 219). In the last few years, there has been intense interest in DLT ...
StanChart:We announced the world’s first application of distributed ledger technology for trade finance
December 18th, 2015
Standard Chartered Bank, DBS Bank and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) have successfully completed a proof of concept (PoC) delivering the world’s first application of distributed ledger technology to enhance the overall security of trade finance invoicing. Leveraging ...
Blockchain technology in use to reduce frictional cost of trading mutual funds
June 12th, 2017
Calastone successfully completes first phase of blockchain distributed market infrastructure proof-of-concept for the global funds industry Global funds transaction network and Future50 FinTech pioneer seeks to further reduce frictional cost of trading mutual funds, from fund manufacturer to end ...
Spanish Banking Giant BBVA Now a Member of Hyperledger Blockchain Project & Linux Foundation
March 30th, 2017
Spanish multinational banking group BBVA becomes the latest financial institution to join the Hyperledger Project, a cross-industry blockchain collaborative with open-source principles led by the Linux Foundation. Announced by the banking giant this week, BBVA also notably becomes a ...
BBVA became member of the open-source blockchain community Hyperledger
March 28th, 2017
BBVA became an official member of Hyperledger today. Hyperledger is an open-source collaborative effort to advance the use of blockchain in different economic and corporate sectors. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, this international initiative unites a large group of ...
Calypso partners with R3 to build distributed ledger applications for financial services
November 29th, 2016
Calypso Technology has become the first firm to partner with R3 to develop capital markets applications on its Corda distributed ledger-based smart contract platform. The two firms are currently developing a multi-party trade confirmation solution and testing it with ...
MAS, R3 and Financial Institutions experimenting with Blockchain Technology
November 16th, 2016
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that it is partnering R3, a Blockchain technology company, and a consortium of financial institutions on a proof-of-concept project to conduct inter-bank payments using Blockchain technology. This project could potentially avail ...
China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
November 3rd, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. Headquartered in Shanghai, CFETS ...
Deloitte now focuses on blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT)
October 19th, 2016
Deloitte Catalyst accelerates digital transformation by bringing together critical assets and capabilities from the domains of cognitive technologies, Internet of Things and blockchain and includes as initial members Narrative Science, Kira Systems, Ayasdi and Loyyal, among others. Deloitte Catalyst has enabled Deloitte to launch ...
Nasdaq and Hong Kong exchange sharing information on blockchain technology
October 11th, 2016
The Nasdaq stock market is hoping to bring its blockchain technology to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to its president and chief operating officer Adena Friedman. In the city on Thursday and Friday last week to meet with ...
