Circularise secures SAFE investment from SEKISUI CHEMICAL

Circularise, a blockchain platform for supply chain transparency and traceability, has formed a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) with SEKISUI CHEMICAL, a specialist in the plastics manufacturing industry.

This strategic alliance, which involves an investment in Circularise by SEKISUI CHEMICAL, goes beyond financial support. SEKISUI CHEMICAL will enter a joint project with Circularise in a chemicals traceability project, introducing a digital product passport and testing...

6 December 2023 | Blockchain

Tokenbridge launches tokenisation platform for wealth and fund management

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Tokenbridge, a token aggregator and distribution platform streamlining the wealth and fund management ecosystem, has launched what it describes as a revolutionary suite of services.

Targeted at fund managers, financial advisors, and their forward-thinking next generation clients, the platform is poised to transform investment management with distributed ledger technology (DLT), providing efficiency and access to the digital investment frontier. Tokenbridge offers an...

6 December 2023 | Banking

Trading Strategy partnership with Enzyme enhances on-chain asset management 

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Trading Strategy has partnered with Enzyme to bring sophisticated algorithmic trading to DeFi and to evolve on-chain asset management.

Enzyme users can now access sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies created by Trading Strategy’s expert quant and strategy creator community through the Enzyme app. Strategies will be available both on Enzyme's website and Trading Strategy’s website, which is accessible through a different frontend. For Enzyme users, these features will...

27 November 2023 | Blockchain

Australian stock exchange abandons blockchain revamp

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Australia’s primary securities exchange, ASX, has ditched its plans to embrace blockchain and signed an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide a next generation clearing and settlement platform to service the Australian market.

ASX will implement TCS’ flagship product TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure to enable the transformation.

Prior to the announcement, the ASX had been working on a seven-year rebuild of its old software. Its new platform...

22 November 2023 | Banking

AWS selects 20 startups to accelerate the growth of emerging technologies

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed the 20 companies selected to participate in the first cohort of the AWS Emerging Technologies Accelerator.

The AWS Emerging Technologies Accelerator is specifically designed for pre seed-stage to series A startups in the UK & Ireland to support their development. The cohort includes early-stage UK and Ireland based startups operating in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI,...

20 November 2023 | Blockchain

Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology launches Crypto Dashboard

The Crypto Dashboard, created by the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School, has been launched today to revolutionise monitoring capabilities for various cryptocurrency assets, providing users with enhanced real-time insights and advanced analytics.

The platform, designed by leading academics that is open for everybody, is equipped with features such as market overviews of the overall crypto landscape, a Cryptocurrencies Information Component to list...

16 November 2023 | Banking

GSBN partners with ZAN to harness Web3 to tokenise eBLs

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Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), a not-for-profit consortium enabling efficient, paperless and sustainable growth in global trade with its data infrastructure and ecosystem of partners, has partnered with ZAN to explore technical innovations for tokenising the electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) with the support of Hong Kong’s Web3 environment, to unlock new economic values for participants in global trade.

As a technology brand of Ant Group Digital Technologies, ZAN brings...

14 November 2023 | Banking

Jeroen van Megchelen, Ledger Leopard: Why companies should embrace blockchain and web3 technology

What have been the latest developments at Ledger Leopard?

We've introduced an AI trust tool called 'rel-ai'. This tool is designed to provide trust to AI models by ensuring the transparency and authenticity of their outputs. Ledger Leopard accomplishes this by offering users a web3 wallet, which they can use to sign both the input provided to the AI model and the resulting output.

The process involves users signing the input and output, and then hashing and writing the...

8 November 2023 | Banking

Remittance fintech app Minit Money launches money sending to Zambia

Blockchain remittance app Minit Money has opened its first Southern Africa remittance corridor, enabling Zambians living in South Africa to easily and affordably send money home.

Minit Money co-founder and CEO, Angus Brown, said: “We’re delighted to announce the launch of Minit Money’s ability to serve the Zambian diaspora community in South Africa. We have experienced significant growth in our existing corridors of Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon, Senegal, Benin, Ivory...

6 November 2023 | Blockchain

HSBC offers tokenised gold, trials tokenised deposits with Ant blockchain

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A couple of updates from HSBC have hit the wires: the bank has moved to tokenise ownership of physical gold through blockchain technology, as well as trialling tokenised deposits to enable corporate clients to move money across multiple accounts.

The tokenisation of gold in the bank’s London vault will see a digital twin created of an existing asset. Each token represents 0.001 troy ounce and can be traded on trading platform HSBC Evolve. Mark Williamson, global head of FX and...

2 November 2023 | Banking