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Capitolis Appoints Murugan Manickam as Chief Technology Officer

NEW YORK, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capitolis, the financial technology company, today announced the appointment of Murugan Manickam as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Reporting to Okan Pekin, President of Capitolis, Manickam will be responsible for leading Capitolis’ global engineering organization and its data and AI strategy, driving innovation and execution to support the

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DLT can transform global payments, says IMF chief

TechTalk DLT can transform global payments, says IMF chief Tokenization, stablecoins may ‘fluidify’ finance, make big cross-border payments cheaper, faster Peter Starr   31 Aug 2026 In response, to the question, can distributed ledger technology ( DLT ) like blockchain transform cross-border payments on a global scale? International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, answers:

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MUFG to acquire DLT based superannuation administrator GROW Inc – Ledger Insights – blockchain for enterprise

MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire GROW Technology Services, a fintech superannuation administration platform whose core product is built on distributed ledger technology. The Australian Financial Review reported the price at around AUD 78 million (US$56 million), roughly a third of GROW’s valuation a year earlier. The

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Central banks on-chain

V češtině není k dispozici. Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy” Jackson Hole, 28 August 2026 It is a great pleasure to discuss Darrell Duffie’s paper “Tokenized finance and the perimeter of central banking”

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ECB official calls for central banks to bring reserves on-chain

ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said central banks should move their money onto distributed ledgers as tokenization reshapes financial markets, arguing that central bank reserves remain superior to stablecoins as the ultimate settlement asset. At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, Schnabel said tokenization could make financial transactions faster, safer and more programmable by

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BoE given new mandate to drive payments innovation

The Bank of England (BoE) is set to receive a new secondary objective to support innovation across payment systems and digital money, as the UK government looks to strengthen the country’s position as a global financial services hub. The new mandate will sit beneath the BoE’s existing primary responsibility for maintaining financial stability, with HM

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