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APRIL 26, 2020

E-FRESCO , a fresh fruit virtual market, is introducing blockchain capabilities to help sustain cross-border needs, according to a report. Canada, the Middle East, Europe and South America, customers trying to buy fresh fruit and vegetables online through the marketplace can now use blockchain-based shipment and B2B technology.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 7, 2017

Their Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures released Distributed ledger technology in payment, clearing and settlement: an analytical framework last week, and I just read it. DLT may radically change how assets are maintained and stored, obligations are discharged, contracts are enforced, and risks are managed.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. One of the latest adopters of Mastercard's Track solution is Transcard , which announced its A2A capabilities wielding Mastercard technology. TOMIA and Clear Embrace Blockchain for Telecom B2B Payments. Canada Taps Vocalink for Real-Time Rail.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Summit brings together experts in the field, including bank executives, technology vendors, and consultants, to discuss the latest advancements in automation and its impact on the banking industry. Perficient will also bring insight surrounding the banking industry’s growing use of blockchain to the Summit.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Overstock may be best known as an eCommerce business, but these days its CEO and Founder Patrick Byrne is much more interested in talking about the power of cryptocurrency and blockchain, and how it will be the real future of both the firm and the economy in general. Suffice to say, Byrne remains one of blockchain’s bigger boosters.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Accenture has a blockchain solution that just went live, according to a press release. With increased supplier demand, Accenture buyer teams need to move quickly and effectively,” said Shane Marshall, the company’s managing director of Global IT and Blockchain.

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JULY 31, 2019

Russia’s S7 Airlines revealed that its blockchain platform, developed in partnership with Alfa-Bank, sold $1 million in tickets in July. Thanks to this new technology, now it’s easier for our agents to work directly with the airline, which allowed us to expand our own S7 Airlines sales network.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 2, 2018

It’s no secret distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have been front-of-mind for financial institutions examining solutions to existing problems in institutional and retail banking. While blockchain technology is still a greenhorn in the wilderness of capital markets, the underlying concept should be heralded as a catalyst for innovation.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. First name. Company Name.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the age of blockchain, all manner of physical assets are making the leap to bits and bytes. Blockchain can track transactions of all sorts and create a connected record — and that blockchain is rapidly cleaving from the cryptocurrency clamor to which it was once inextricably linked. percent pure.

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JULY 1, 2019

Blockchain has caught the attention of several FIs, especially for B2B and cross-border payments, even if there’s not yet consensus on how to best deploy it in real-world situations. Canadian payments network Interac has experimented with blockchain for consumer payments. We are now in the trough of disillusionment.”.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Blockchain technology has the potential to impact nearly every industry involving money. This gives those insurance companies involved in the trial the ability to communicate more effectively via blockchain technology’s ability to automate these pertinent aspects of the insurance process. SR: Impact is slow but expansive.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In the ongoing move to embrace blockchain, Facebook may have its allies. IBM has said it is “willing” to work with Facebook on blockchain, as noted by an IBM executive. He said that a company such as Facebook can help bring more legitimacy to blockchain — yet he did not state whether IBM would look to join the Libra Association.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

CLS Group, a financial institution providing foreign exchange settlement solutions, has acknowledged that blockchain is not necessarily critical to improving FX trading, despite having invested heavily in the technology. He said this is crucial for emerging market currencies. Is that because of blockchain?

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APRIL 30, 2019

Roberto Mancone, co-founder and chief operating officer of blockchain trade finance platform we.trade, is leaving the company and revealing his doubts about blockchain technology’s promises to transform the industry. Since then, 14 banks have joined its platform, according to reports.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Business services conglomerate Accenture is expanding its blockchain solution offerings with the development of a procurement platform launched in Thailand. Accenture integrated its blockchain architecture into R3 ‘s Corda open-source blockchain platform to create the tool, the company said.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

To that end, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a paper titled “Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into blockchain finance” that distributed ledger technology (DLT) could be a part of bank infrastructure and could be used to automate supervision.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Emergent Technology, the blockchain technology company, announced on Tuesday (Sept. In a press release , Emergent Technology said T Stamp, which is known as Trust Stamp, makes artificial intelligence and biometric hashing technology for the purpose of verifying identities.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

As reported by CoinTelegraph , Switzerland ’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) this week unveiled guidance on the regulatory requirements that govern payments done over blockchain. Separately, FINMA has approved banking licenses for the blockchain service firms Sygnum AG and SEBA Crypto AG.

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MARCH 20, 2019

The idea that blockchain can be divorced from the crypto realm and used to trade and store assets is quickly gaining, well, currency. Blockchain for Trading . Trading protocols that operate across the blockchain, he said, are non-custodial, which means “sovereignty over your assets.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Malaysia-based MyEG Services is rolling out a new payroll solution developed on blockchain technology. Reports in The Edge Markets on Friday (Oct. PayMe will first be introduced in a pilot phase in select markets, reports said. Payroll is one of the many potential use cases for blockchain technology.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

“The most advanced technology is [electronic data interchange (EDI)].” The technology first emerged in the 1970s. Yet, half a century later, even some of the largest multinational conglomerates are only beginning to implement EDI into their procurement and B2B commerce operations. Betting On Blockchain.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Add to that Walmart ’s latest effort to gain more grocery market share: using blockchain technology to trace the origin of the food sold by the retailer back to the farms from which it came. The Walmart interview and blockchain initiative come amid increasing roles for the technology in payments and commerce.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Payments firm Wirecard is expanding its presence in the B2B payments market, and is deploying blockchain technology in the process. An announcement on the company’s website on Thursday (June 14) said Wirecard is expanding its B2B services, using blockchain to connect merchants with producers.

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JUNE 8, 2020

The Securities & Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has moved to freeze the assets of a $12 million cryptocurrency mining and multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, Coindesk reports. In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The new year has dawned with a number of cross-border payment pacts, done across blockchain and other means. In Pakistan, as reported by Coindesk, Telenor Microfinance Bank and remittance firm Valyou Sdn Bhd (a Telenor subsidiary) have launched a payment platform based on Alipay’s blockchain offerings. s Faster Payments service.

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JUNE 22, 2017

In blockchain news, the technology may be on the verge of falling like dominos into widespread commercial use. While many outlets have reported on the difficulties of applying blockchain across industries, implementation issues are mostly due to regulations. What will it take to push blockchain into mainstream use?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has thrown its support behind blockchain technology to expand trade finance availability across the globe, touting the technology as a way to address the “paper monster,” tap into data and support governments’ export/import initiatives. The report also expects $1.1

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MARCH 10, 2017

With eCommerce in full swing, many retailers are looking to restructure many facets of their operations. This is great news for retailers, as it allows them to reach new audiences in new markets all over the world. Naturally, with ease of market entry into various parts of the world economy also comes security concerns.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Yet many firms struggle to gain access to the capital that helps them launch or sustain operations. USD equivalent to help fund its efforts to help companies secure loans against invoices (through linkups with investors) using blockchain and artificial intelligence. One way to secure funding is to use invoice financing.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

He is accused of setting up and operating Darkode, a black marketplace that operated between 2008 and 2013, as well as creating and deploying Mariposa, one of the largest botnets. Ripple also announced that it is expanding its presence in Europe by moving into Iceland.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

marked its third anniversary of adopting its open banking framework, making it the leading market to drive the concept of unlocking customers’ bank account data for integration with third-party solution providers. HashCash Brings Blockchain Tech To Unnamed Bank. Last week, the U.K. where there is no open banking regulatory mandate.

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JULY 1, 2020

have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. The International Finance Corp. (

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Every day the world hears about another blockchain project in the works or another distributed ledger technology consortium forming. Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. Today, only 8 percent of them remain active. “The 9 with the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Singapore-based BCB Blockchain announced that it has launched a $300,000 fund to support incubators and startup accelerators in the Philippines under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). And Alibaba Group is using blockchain to further the development of the Chinese film industry.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Fidelity Investments , the Boston-based fund company, is becoming a leader in blockchain technology, investing billions of dollars on that and other cutting-edge technologies. According to a report in CNBC citing Fidelity, billions of dollars are going toward Fidelity blockchain, Fidelity AI and Fidelity VR.

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