HSBC joins $36 million funding round in blockchain specialist Axoni
Goldman Sachs, Citi, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo and Franklin Templeton Investments are also investors in blockchain technology vendor Axoni.
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HKEX confirms Digital Asset partnership for post-trade blockchain prototype
Digital Asset to provide blockchain-based platform for completion of post-trade allocations and processing for northbound trades under Stock Connect.
Think about what blockchain technology can do internally for your organisation, says Digital Asset CEO
Blythe Masters also outlines the importance of interoperability between blockchain systems as it is unlikely there will be "a single solution or one approach to DLT".
The Big Interview: Alan Marquard
Chief strategy and development officer at CLS, Alan Marquard, sits down with The TRADE to discuss the buy-side’s increasingly active role in FX settlement, the importance of the FX Global Code of Conduct for the industry, and provide an update on CLS’s recent blockchain projects.
Blockchain specialist SETL names new CEO
Co-founder and CEO Peter Randall will step down from his role and become president of the firm, helping Philippe Morel lead the company.
Digital Asset blockchain platform processed 27,000 trades per second in latest test
The DA platform processed more than four times the amount of trades per second than the latest DLT prototype developed by DTCC.
DTCC builds DLT settlement prototype that can process 100 million trades per day
DTCC, Accenture, Digital Asset and R3 teamed up to build a US equity clearing and settlement system prototype.
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Targeting talent: The industry’s new battleground
Attracting and retaining the brightest talent available has become the new battleground for investment banks as new compliance obligations and technology developments create warring factions desperate to secure the best personnel possible. Hayley McDowell tells the story behind this method of attack and finds out that a talent shortage could be just on the horizon for major players.
Blockchain takes a back seat as banks focus on AI and data
Research from AFME and PwC found that blockchain has little or no current technology investment focus for the majority of banks.
Former TradingScreen and Liquidnet CFO joins blockchain specialist
Kevin Held spent 13 years with Liquidnet and the past three years as CFO at TradingScreen.