Marex partners with J.P. Morgan for 24/7 blockchain settlement

Despite the firm's skepticism over digital assets, J.P. Morgan is actively leveraging blockchain technology.

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Morgan Stanley Invests $48M in Blockchain Startup Securitize

Blockchain startup Securitize raised $48 million in funding during its Series B investment round, co-led by Morgan Stanley. The post Morgan Stanley Invests $48M in Blockchain Startup Securitize appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Morgan Stanley Co-Leads $48 Million Investment in Robinhood-Like Blockchain Startup

Morgan Stanley banking giant and Blockchain Capital have led a fundraising round for a DLT startup Securitize

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JP Morgan’s job posts hint at its amplified crypto ambitions

American investment bank JP Morgan is searching for individuals that are well-versed with crypto to fill several digital asset crossover positions. The financial giant’s job posts seem to go beyond the requirements of its Onyx blockchain project.

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Ethereum (ETH) Moons to Over $4,100 All-Time High 

Ether (ETH) has made it to the psychological $4,100 price region for the first time in its existence. The native digital currency of the Ethereum smart contracts blockchain is now well on its way to becoming more valuable than several Wall Street firms, including JP Morgan Chase.

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JP Morgan, DBS, Temasek to Develop Blockchain Cross-Border Payment Platform

Sensing the upcoming tectonic shift in the architecture of global payments, DBS, JPMorgan, and Temasek have joined forces to develop a new blockchain-based interbank payments mechanism. Blockchain-Powered Mechanism the Need of the Hour In an official announcement made on April 27, major financial institutions such as DBS Bank, JPMorgan, and Temasek stated that they areRead More

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Blockchain Games: NFTs as an Integral Part of In-Game Tokenomics

Just four years ago, Jamie Dimon, the head of one of the world’s largest banks, JP Morgan, called bitcoin (BTC) a fraud. In the current year, JP Morgan’s top executives call for involvement in cryptocurrencies.

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JP Morgan Experiments With Blockchain Payments in Outer Space

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Amazon, IBM, JP Morgan, Microsoft, and R3 Corda: The State of Enterprise Blockchain

What is the state of Enterprise Blockchain? Are we advancing? Are we stalled? Why?  This article examines the state of the industry; this is not intended to be a comprehensive review, rather, the goal is to focus on the primary market participants.

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SBI, India's largest bank, integrates JP Morgan's blockchain solution

State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, is in the news today after a report by the Economic Times revealed that the country has joined JP Morgan's much-hyped blockchain payments network.

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Pomp Launches a Website to Connect Jobs Seekers With Blockchain Companies

Renowned crypto evangelist and influencer Anthony Pompliano who is also a Morgan Creek Digital partner, has announced the launching of a crypto and blockchain jobs site which is backed by some serious players in the industry such as Coinbase, BlockFi, and Gemini.

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Figure Blockchain Lending Platform Secures $100m from JP Morgan 

Figure Lending has obtained a $100 million loan facility from leading U. S lender, JPMorgan for conforming and jumbo mortgages. The blockchain-powered mortgage platform claims it has secured $1. 5 billion of lending facilities via five funding deals, according to a LedgerInsights report on January 15, 2021.

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Chris Wood Reduces Pension Fund Gold for BTC

Gold becomes digital gold On Dec. 19, 2020, Bitcoin broke a new all-time-high of over $24,000. This brought memories of the 2017 bull run, but with more backing by fundamentals. Since 2017, banks and Wall Street moguls like Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan (JPM) have done 180’s about blockchain technology or Bitcoin (BTC).

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Artist Sells Digital Artwork on Gemini-Owned Platform, Nifty Gateway, for Over $21K

Asides from its business and government applications, blockchain is also gaining traction in gaming and art commerce. Blockchain Art for Good This week, Anthony Pompliano, the founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, announced on Twitter that his company had helped an artist sell his work online.

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JP Morgan?s Coin to Be Used First Time while Banking Giant Sets Up Commercial DLT Unit

JP Morgan giant announces the launch of a special unit for blockchain projects, planning to make money from them and handle large digital cross-border payments

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Cryptocurrency News Roundup for August 25, 2020

In a new move that could potentially have a sizeable impact on the Ethereum ecosystem, ConsenSys has announced that it is acquiring Quorum. Quorum is the enterprise blockchain platform developed by banking giant JP Morgan Chase, who, as part of the deal, will also be making a strategic investment in the Brooklyn, N.

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US Congressman Says Bitcoin Won’t Go Away, It Will Only Get Stronger

Bitcoin has value and will continue to advance and become a more and more important integral part of the future of Americans, according to Congressman Tom Emmer. The pro-cryptocurrency and decentralization US representative for Minnesota was speaking during an interview with Morgan Creek’s co-founder and early Bitcoin adopter Anthony Pompliano. “Bitcoin, blockchain, it’s not going […]

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Cryptocurrency Focused Insurer, Evertas, Raises A $2.8 Million Seed Round Led by Morgan Creek

Chicago based Evertas insurance has raised $2.8Million in a recent seed round. The insurance company, formerly known as BlockRe, was founded in 2017 by current CEO J Gdanski. They have zeroed in on the crypto realm, helping their clients reduce exposure to crypto-related risks offering expertise in insurance, Blockchain, investigation, and financial audits. The seed […]

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MAS, Temasek & J.P. Morgan Complete Blockchain-Based Prototype

Singapore’s central bank has successfully completed the fifth phase of a blockchain payments project, soon to be ready for live adoption. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it has developed a blockchain-based payments prototype for faster and efficient cross-border payments.

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Anthony Pompliano Believes The Success Of Ripple Doesn’t Guarantee The Success Of XRP

Morgan Creek Digital co-founder and partner, Anthony Pompliano or better known as Pomp, has stated that if Ripple, the San Francisco-based blockchain payments firm associated with XRP is successful in the long-run, it does not mean that XRP is guaranteed to be successful as well.

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Blockchain Bites: Will Crypto See Any of the CBDC Action?

The world is growing comfortable with digital assets: JP Morgan banks crypto, England discusses CBDCs and Sheila Warren a place for privacy coins.

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Brazil’s PIER Data Sharing Platform Runs on JP Morgan’s Quorum Blockchain; At A Cost of $250K

Brazil’s financial watchdogs will start using a shared blockchain platform dubbed ‘PIER’ to enhance the transfer of information amongst the institutions. This initiative was launched in April with the major stakeholders being Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), insurance regulator (SUSEP) and the securities authority, CVM.

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Pompliano Says He Wouldn’t Buy XRP

Anthony Pompliano, host of the “Off the Chain” podcast and co-founder of Morgan Creek Capital, said he would not buy XRP when asked in an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley. Pomp set Bitcoin apart from other blockchain projects and said XRP has nothing driving value that he could point to.

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JP Morgan Blockchain Report: Bitcoin (BTC) Price, Stablecoins, Payments

JPMorgan Chase published its annual report on the blockchain development worldwide. Mostly, it covers the adoption models, use-cases and challenges the technology faces

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Том Ли: не ждите, что биткоин после халвинга пойдет по пути лайткоина

Аналитик назвал, чем уникален старейший цифровый актив. Том Ли, экс-управляющий портфелем обыкновенных акций в крупнейшем американском банке JP Morgan, выступил с презентацией на Blockchain Economy 2020, конференции, которая состоялась с 20 по 21 февраля в Стамбуле, Турция.

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Bitcoin’s System is The Only Way to Build Cryptocurrency: Investment Firm Exec

Founder of Morgan Creek Capital, Mark Yusko, believes Bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW) consensus is the only viable protocol on which to build a digital asset. In an interview, he discussed why the coin is a “beautiful use case of blockchain,” and why 99% of other coins will eventually go to zero.

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Питер Шифф перепутал пин-код с паролем от своего кошелька

Критик биткоина и сторонник инвестиций в золото Питер Шифф признался, что перепутал пин-код от кошелька Blockchain с паролем от него. По всей видимости, сторонник «традиционных ценностей» несколько огорчил соучредителя Morgan Creek Digital Энтони Помплиано, который прошлым летом подарил Шиффу немного биткоинов и впоследствии предлагал помощь в восстановлении доступа к кошельку.

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Kadena fully launches hybrid public blockchain with smart contracts

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of JP Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, has announced the full launch of its public blockchain. Kadena’s public blockchain is first to market as a sharded Proof of Work Layer 1 network.

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JP Morgan is Looking Forward to Launching a New Blockchain Network Based on Quorum in Japan

JP Morgan announced its plan to launch a new cryptocurrency, JPM coin, early in 2019 and also to expand its blockchain network, Quorum, in Japan come next year. It also confirmed a new project started to speed up collateral and cash transfers.

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Singapore: MAS Partners JP Morgan to Develop Blockchain-Enabled Payments Network

Singapore’s financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has entered into a partnership with Wall Street titan JP Morgan Chase and Temasek to develop a distributed ledger technology-powered (DLT) multi-currency payments network.

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Fear of Crypto? JP Morgan Building Blockchain Multi-Currency System Blessed by Singapore?s Regulator

The Singaporean regulator MAS and JP Morgan are working on a prototype of a blockchain-powered system for cross-border payments using multiple currencies

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MAS and JP Morgan Develop Blockchain-Based Cross-Border Payments Network

Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has managed to create a new blockchain-based prototype for multi-currency payments, in collaboration with Temasek and JPMorgan. According to the developers, the network could significantly improve numerous aspects of sending payments, including the cost efficiency for businesses.

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Pension Funds Double Crypto Asset Exposure in Morgan Creek’s Fund to 1%

The two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds invested only 0.5 percent in crypto and blockchain last year.

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Microsoft to Launch Azure Blockchain Tokens, a Standard Enterprise Coin Creation Platform

Microsoft, IBM, Intel, JP Morgan, ConsenSys and a number of other large firms are looking to make the building of enterprise based tokens as easy as plugging in your printer to the power socket and having printouts with a number of clicks.

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Hyperledger Vs Quorum: Which Will Rule the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance?

When it comes to enterprise blockchain platforms, three names are surely to come to one’s mind: Hyperledger, JP Morgan’s Quorum and Corda. As reported by CoinDesk, it seems like Hyperledger and Quorum are currently in their own race to see who will become the leader of the crowd. It turns out, the final verdict may […]

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Morgan Creek Digital привлекла $61 млн во второй инвестиционный криптофонд. Конечная цель — $250 млн

Компания Morgan Creek Digital привлекла почти $61 млн от 11 инвесторов в свой второй фонд прямых инвестиций, ориентированный на блокчейн и криптовалюты, сообщает Cointelegraph. Размещение бумаг Morgan Creek Blockchain Opportunities Fund II началось 16 октября.

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Pension Funds Put $50 Million Into Morgan Creek’s New Blockchain Fund

Morgan Creek Digital raised the first $50 million for its second venture capital fund from the same two large institutional investors in its first.

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Pomp’s Morgan Creek Raises $61M For Blockchain Fund, Targets $250M

Morgan Creek Digital has raised $61 million for second blockchain fund

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Morningstar Credit Ratings reveals its latest crypto-rating platform; will address $117 trillion debt securities industry

In 2019, the blockchain and crypto-industry has already lured several big companies, including the likes of Facebook, JP Morgan, Fidelity and Telegram, into its ecosystem. The latest member to enter the cryptoverse is Chicago-based Morningstar Credit Ratings.

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Morningstar Credit Ratings Is Building A Blockchain Evaluation System For Tokenized Debt Securities

Morningstar Credit Ratings, a subsidiary of Morningstar Inc has decided to rate a variety of real-world assets, debts, and securities on a block chain, reported Forbes. The parent company started out as a rating agency for mutual funds offered by Prudential, Morgan Stanley and TDAmeritrade.

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Fidelity Investments and Morgan Creek back $3.5 Million Funding Round for Elementus

Blockchain analytics firm Elementus has raised funding from several funds, including one linked to Fidelity Investments and Morgan Creek Digital. The firm aims to broaden analytics in the space by monitoring the use of cryptocurrency for illicit activities, similar to what Chainalysis does, as reported by Fortune, September 23, 2019.

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OCBC Joins JP Morgan’s Blockchain Consortium

Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has joined JP Morgan’s Interbank Information Network (IIN) as the first Singaporean bank in the consortium. Business Times reported that OCBC joins a long list of 112 APAC banks that have joined this network, September 20, 2019.

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Wells Fargo Digital Cash: Bankers escaping the blockchain revolution

Another one bank has launched corporate cryptocurrency – Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the world and in the United States. Earlier this year, JP Morgan launched its own stablecoin JPM Coin.

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Germany’s Largest Bank, Deutsche Bank Joins JP Morgan’s Blockchain Payment Network, Quorum

The blockchain space is growing and global banks are moving with it. Since the launch of JP Morgan’s blockchain settlement system, Interbank Information Network (IIN) on Quorum, a platform built on Ethereum, over 300 banks have joined in.

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Japan ‘Hopes’ To Be The Global Leader In Bitcoin Adoption

FINSUM 2019 kicked off today, at the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Organized by the NIKKEI INC, and Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), the 3-day event is going to be a mega ‘fintech, blockchain, crypto and the future of finance’ bonanza.

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Ethereum’s DApps to operate on Telegram’s blockchain via Solidity

This year, cryptocurrencies seem to have lured huge private tech companies like Facebook, JP Morgan, and Fidelity into the cryptocurrency market. The latest addition to this list is instant messaging service, Telegram, and it is set to launch its very own cryptocurrency “GRAM” very soon.

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JP Morgan Related Project, Kadena, Launches Permissioned Blockchain on Microsoft Azure

Kadena, a permissioned blockchain on Amazon Web Services, reported the launch of a new blockchain version on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. The project, labelled Kadena’s Scalable Permission Blockchain Community Edition, is a blockchain as a service platform and will be available for free.

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Crypto Firm BlockFi Raises $18.3 Million in Latest Funding Round

In a press release issued on August 6, 2019, cryptocurrency management firm BlockFi announced that it had raised $18. 3 million in a Series A funding round. Per sources in the know, the venture round was led by Valar Ventures and saw participation from Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, ConsenSys Ventures, Akuna Capital, and Morgan Creek, amongRead MoreRead More.

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Crypto-backed loan firm BlockFi closes $18.3 million funding

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceBlockFi, a crypto-backed loan company, today announced that it has raised $18. 3 million in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures with participation from Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, ConsenSys Ventures, Akuna Capital, Avon Ventures, Susquehanna, CMT Digital, Morgan Creek, and PJC.

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