Deutsche Börse Group and HQLAX have signed a Letter of Intent to form a strategic partnership for the creation of an innovative securities lending solution using the R3 Corda blockchain platform back in March 2018. Later on, Deutsche Börse Group has made an initial investment of a single-digit euro million amount in HQLAX S.à r.l. in exchange for a minority…
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Trading solutions provider Spotware has teamed up with Forex and cryptocurrency technology company Match-Trade Technologies, to bring a new quality of turnkey White Label solutions. Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware, has recently revealed in an exclusive LeapRate interview all about Spotware's flagship trading platform solution cTrader and Traders First approach. cTrader's offered White…
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The QuarkChain network is a peer-to-peer network based on blockchain, able to process up to 1 million transactions per second. Called by many the "the project to watch", QuarkChain incorporates a special design that allows for high throughput and quick, efficient distribution of data. According to Hacked, QuarkChain, with its special features, will be the…
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LiquidShare's European post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using blockchain enters into pilot phase on Euronext’s markets today. LiquidShare is a European fintech venture which was launched last year and created by BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE. LiquidShare’s…
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Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the world. The platform has just announced their launch of subsidiary accounts feature for institutional and high net worth investors. The request for such an option has been long awaited, as institutional investors have had a large impact on the cryptocurrency industry in the last…
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Blockchain has surely entered another phase of its development. According to The Statista, the blockchain market can reach the staggering $2.3 billion by 2021. Other statistics suggest even more brighter future for the technology and its applications. General Motors is now also considering a special blockchain patent for managing its automated car fleet. According to…
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iFunded, the digital investing platform, has announced the launch of a real estate tokenization platform named iEstate. It is the first global platform on the market to issue a security token based on real estate debt and will follow up with with an equity-based token. iEstate uses blockchain to enhance the speed and timing of real…
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Trading solutions provider Spotware has announced that its cryptocurrency exchange solution, cXchange, has been integrated with BitGo, the market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services. Spotware has just completed a deep integration between cXchange and BitGo’s wallet API platform. This integration allows any cXchange operator to plug in their BitGo Business Wallet thanks to the…
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Coinbase's user base and growth have both been remarkable in the last couple of months, especially when Bitcoin was hitting $20,000 in December 2017. The crypto platform has also added new "offerings" in its portfolio, including Bitcoin Cash and 0x. Now, the San-Francisco-based unicorn has secured a Series E funding round worth $300 million. Having…
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Bangkok Bank, BNP Paribas, CTBC Holding, HSBC, ING, NatWest, SEB and Standard Chartered in partnership with Bain, CryptoBLK and R3 launch open industry platform, corporate customer pilot programme and technology partner programme on the Corda Network The Voltron initiative has launched the open platform for documentary trade, targeting production on R3’s Corda Enterprise blockchain platform…
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