Digital payment service provider TransferWise has increased its valuation to $5 billion and is now ranked among top European fintech companies.
Ripple Labs’ Japanese partner SBI Holdings has set up its new S coin token platform. The platform works on the Corda blockchain.
With blockchain solutions gaining a global traction, Israel’s Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has launched a blockchain platform that will enhance peer-to-peer Securities Lending.
Director of product at Ripple, Craig DeWitt, unveiled the beta version of a new P2P payments platform Payburner that utilizes XRP for processing payment. Payburner users can now make PayID payments.
Travala.com partners with Swipe to allow its customers to utilize the Swipe’s Visa card in their hotel industry. Swipe has now listed AVA, while Travala will now accept SXP.
Opera users in the UK can now utilize their Opera built-in crypto wallets to trade Ethereum as more digital assets will be added in the near future.
Visa stated that digital currencies could help in offering better services and expansion of the networks that would support modern forms of trade and exchange.
BNP Paribas has committed to joining the IBM Cloud for Financial Services as its anchor client in Europe. It is the first step in creating an ecosystem for the platform on the European continent.
Masayoshi Amamiya, the Bank of Japan executive governor, said that a CBDC may play a central role in interoperability between many emerging digital assets in the country.
The Ant Financial management believes that their move to go for an IPO and become a public company will enhance transparency to their stakeholders.
Fintech giant app Paypal has partnered with Paxos to launch a new crypto service. This new venture will serve more than 300 million PayPal users.
The cooperation with Mastercard will allow Wirex the ability to directly issue crypto payment cards to its customers and push cryptocurrency adoption to the mainstream financial market.
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SEBA will be working in close coordination with DASL for the issuance of tokenized securities over the Corda blockchain network for institutional clients.
PBoC confirmed it will be testing a mobile application for storing and exchanging the digital yuan, after screenshots circulated on social media. Internal tests will be done in Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiong’An, and Chengdu