Crypto

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have created a group to share experiences as they assess the potential cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC) in their home jurisdictions….

Saga today announces the launch of the Saga token (SGA), the first global, stabilised, digital currency controlled by its holders. SGA allows global citizens to store and move value without friction across borders. Saga Monetary Solutions (www.saga.org) is a UK company limited by guarantee, based on non-for-profit principals. The Saga token (SGA) is a global…

Deutsche Börse and HQLAX successfully launched their jointly developed Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) solution for frictionless collateral swaps in the securities lending market. The live transactions were executed by Commerzbank, Credit Suisse and UBS on the Eurex Repo F7-trading system. As part of these transactions, ownership of a basket of German government bonds and a basket…

Up to 10% of global GDP could be stored on blockchains by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. From product identifiers, medical records to land registries, academic degrees and insurance contracts, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are already functioning in many sectors. What blockchain promises is no less than the technological backbone of the 21st century’s renaissance of the…

Volvo Cars announced last week that it is using Oracle’s blockchain platform to trace cobalt, one of the main components in electric car batteries.

There have been several reports on cryptocurrencies by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). All of them said that they were not yet sufficient in scale to represent serious risks. G7 Working Group’s Report on Stablecoins, produced by the BIS, represents a change of tune. Global stablecoins such as Libra represent a systemic risk. The…

Societatea este împărțită aproape în mod egal între persoanele cu o atitudine pozitivă (32%), negativă (33%) și neutră (35%) cu privire la evoluția monedelor virtuale ca instrument de plată, arată cel de-al șaptelea studiu ING pe tema noilor tehnologii.

We are less then 2 months away from the Blockchain Summit & Bootcamp European edition, 7th-8th November, 2019, and all roads lead to Bucharest, Romania!

Facebook introduced its vision for a global cryptocurrency called Libra two months ago, and since then, regulators have piled criticism onto the project. They may have their own reasons. Global privacy regulators, central bankers and finance ministers have voiced concerns with the proposed Libra cryptocurrency because it could, at least in theory, drastically change or…