Investors Flock to Tokenized Diamond as Crypto Banking Crisis Props Hard Assets

Where are investors parking their money as the U.S. banking crisis ripped through the market? Hard assets, including tokenized diamonds.

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DBS launches programmable money live pilot for Singapore government vouchers

Singaporean multinational banking firm, DBS, has partnered with Open Government Product (OGP) to unveil the pilot of purpose-bound money-based vouchers.   In its Monday press release, the banking leader said issuing those vouchers would be done on a blockchain using tokenized Singapore dollars.

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Japanese Financial Behemoth Nomura Invests in Payments Firm Fnality

Japanese banking giant Nomura has invested in Fnality, a global banking consortium focusing on developing a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenized assets and marketplaces.

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Citibank, Swiss Crypto Firm Partner To Develop Bitcoin Custody Services

Citibank, a major global banking institution, revealed on Wednesday that it has hired Switzerland-headquartered crypto custody firm Metaco to establish a digital asset custody platform. The collaboration will focus on tokenized securities, which are representations of stocks and bonds that are transferred and settled using blockchain technology, according to an email from a Citibank official. […]

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BNP Paribas joins JP Morgan’s blockchain to trade tokenized bonds

French banking giant BNP Paribas has joined United States-based J.P.

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Santander Launches Loans Backed by Tokenized Commodities Such as Soy and Corn

The Spanish banking multinational is the first traditional finance company to release a crypto-based loan, in partnership with agro-commodities tokenization platform Agrotoken.

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Wyoming: Digital Asset Bank WTD Bags Bank Charter to Offer Crypto Custodial Services

The Wyoming Division of Banking has awarded a bank charter to digital asset bank Wyoming Deposit and Transfer (WDT). WDT Bags a Bank Charter According to a report by Coindesk, the issuance of the bank charter will allow WTD to offer commercial banking and custodial services for tokenized assets and cryptocurrencies. For the uninitiated, theRead More

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Ethereum blockchain-issued Santander bond accrues first quarterly interest

Cryptocurrency transactions tracker, Whale Alert, recently tweeted about how the tokenized bond on the Ethereum blockchain from the Spanish banking giant, Santander, had accrued $99,000 in interest foThe post Ethereum blockchain-issued Santander bond accrues first quarterly interest appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ gets desperate as it considers stablecoins

Facebook‘s controversial ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra could be based on national currencies such as the dollar, the tech giant said on Sunday, following increased scrutiny from regulators and governments in recent months.

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Santander Reveals the $20 Million Ethereum Bond

Santander, one of the world’s biggest bank, has tokenized a $20 million bond offering for and by itself on ethereum’s blockchain. John Whelan, head of digital investment banking at Santander,.

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Santander issues $20 million bond on Ethereum blockchain

The fifth-largest bank in Europe, Banco Santander, is the first financial institution to issue an “end-to-end” debt-based bond on Ethereum’s public blockchain. The move is an indicator of ETH’s growing importance in finance.

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Ethereum Blockchain Used by Santander to Close $20-Mln Deal with Bonds

Spanish-based banking heavyweight Santander uses Ethereum blockchain and ERC-20 tokens for settling a tokenized debt for $20 mln

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Stellerro is set to issue tokenized equity through Spanish-regulated Security Token Offering (STO); Public sale opens June 17th

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 17th, 2019– Stellerro, an alternative investment banking platform, automated, in-scale, determined to bring liquidity to the digital era will launch its STO on Monday, June 17th, 2019 at noon ET.

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Mt Pelerin unveils One-Stop Shop Tokenization services

The race to create a standardized framework for a new era of tokenized securities on the blockchain is ramping up. Often cited as the ‘future of banking,’ tokenized financial instruments present some compelling advantages in areas such as automated compliance, settlement times, and asset interoperability.

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After QuadrigaCX: New Regulations for Canadian Exchanges Are in the Works

As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Mt Pelerin ICO

At Mt Pelerin, we believe that an evolution of banking is long overdue. With the global enthusiasm for FinTech and the ever growing success of blockchain technologies, we now have all the right tools to make this evolution happen.

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BlockFi Announces Global Expansion of Its Crypto-Backed Loan Services

Galaxy Capital–backed BlockFiis taking its loan services to the global stage. According to a statement shared with Bitcoin Magazine, the platform is expanding its services to an international audience.

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Athena Blockchain partners with 303 Alternatives to expand into tokenized investments

Athena Blockchain announced today its agreement to partner with 303 Alternatives LLC, a FINRA regulated broker-dealer.  The partnership will allow Athena Blockchain to expand its capabilities and provide compliant investment banking and structuring to the marketing.

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Singapore’s Central Bank Partners With Nasdaq, Deloitte on Settling Tokenized Assets

Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central banking institution, has teamed up with major firms. The project hopes to develop solutions for the exchange and settlement of tokenized digital currencies, as well as securities assets.

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More Than a Ledger: How Blockchains Will Democratize Wealth

To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate.

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Security Trade Blockchains Explored by Banco Santander

Spain-based Banco Santander has announced the creation of a blockchain research team to look into the technology’s potential to change securities trading, according to a July 11 press release. The “Digital Investment Banking” team, headed by current leader of Santander’s blockchain lab John Whelan, will “explor[e] the use of tokenized securities in debt capital markets,

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