The Power of Private Blockchains Is Beginning to Show Is it time to rethink private blockchains? The World Bank’s “blockchain bond” success has reinvigorated that question. … Read More
Samsung Looks to Streamline Banking With Blockchain Tool Samsung SDS, a subsidiary of South Korea’s tech conglomerate, has developed a blockchain-based certification platform for South Korean banks.… Read More
World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Experiment Raises $81 Million The World Bank’s blockchain bond raised $110 million AUD, and is based on a private ethereum network.… Read More
Bitt Inks Blockchain Deal With Another Caribbean Central Bank Bitt is partnering with the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten to look into issuing a central bank-backed digital currency for the two nations.… Read More
World Bank Taps Australia’s CommBank to Issue Its First Blockchain Bond The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been chosen by the World Bank Group to help issue a bond on a blockchain.… Read More
90 Companies Join IBM and Maersk’s Blockchain Supply Chain TradeLens has attracted a wide variety of entities ranging from port operators and customs authorities to logistics companies and even rival carriers.… Read More
Barclays Is Pitting Blockchains Against Each Other (For a Cause) The bank’s DerivHack event will attempt to suss out which of the major enterprise DLT platforms works best for derivatives life cycle smart contracts.… Read More
State Street Opens Up About Its Internal Blockchain Debate The global custody bank’s tech and product teams are keen to transform securities lending into a peer-to-peer market, but not all are on board.… Read More
Goldman Sachs Is Reportedly Weighing a Crypto Custody Service Having launched bitcoin futures trading in May, Goldman Sachs is now pondering the launch of a cryptocurrency custody service, according to a report.… Read More
Blythe Masters Looks Beyond Finance for Next Wave of Blockchain Growth The enterprise DLT startup now sees a vast range of opportunities, both within the industry where its founder spent most of her career and outside it.… Read More