The cryptocurrency market has crushed big time, Bitcoin is falling down to $6,300 and its market capitalization is currently not more than $105 billion. This seems like a huge drop and hit to the whole digital coin market, as other cryptocurrencies are falling fast along the "people's currency". However, two of the biggest banks in…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that it has selected IBM, in partnership with Axoni and R3, to provide a distributed ledger technology (DLT) framework to drive further improvements in derivatives post-trade lifecycle events. The firms will work collaboratively to re-platform DTCC’s…
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The London group, to be renamed NEX Group from January, is preparing to process thousands of foreign exchange trades on blockchain technology. ICAP plc (LON:IAP) will supply the code to customers in March so institutional investors can more transparently track and value deals in the spot market, which trades $1.7tn a day. ICAP, in…
Read moreSeven buy-side and sell side firms, including AB (Alliance Bernstein), Citi, Credit Suisse and HSBC, have collaborated with financial innovation companies R3 and Axoni to explore how blockchain technology could simplify reference data processes. The group, working with R3 and Axoni through the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), recently completed a multi-month proof…
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