June Chen The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has launched a supervisory incubator, which will foster the adoption of distributed ledger technology to augment risk management capabilities at both the individual bank and industry levels. The incubator is a new supervisory arrangement designed to help banks maximize the potential benefits of distributed ledger technology or DLT

HKMA launches Supervisory Incubator to foster responsible adoption of distributed ledger technology (with photos) ****************************************************************************************** The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority:      The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) launched the Supervisory Incubator for Distributed Ledger Technology (the Incubator) today (January 8) to help banks responsibly unlock the transformative potential of

IZNES, the European UCITS fund platform that uses blockchain for record keeping, shared details about experiments during the recent Eurosystem wholesale DLT settlement trials that ended in November. It conducted two sets of experiments that used the Banque de France’s wholesale CBDC (wCBDC) or ‘exploratory cash tokens’. In both cases Generali took on the role

At the start of the year Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) announced it executed two programmable intraday repo transactions with JP Morgan using the JP Morgan Kinexys Digital Assets platform (formerly Onyx). One of the blockchain repo transactions was for $50 million and the other €50 million, with Santander as the seller and JP

(MENAFN) Two major players within the Digital Assets Lab of the Qatar financial Centre (QFC), a leading financial and business hub in the region, have formed a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the adoption of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and digital assets across various industries. SettleMint, a blockchain transformation company, and The Hashgraph Group (THG)

6 Januar 2025 Nicki Kayser  -  Raoul Heinen  - Hannah Peters Banking - Capital Markets - Debt - Capital Markets - Equity - Financial Regulation - Fintech - Investment Funds - Private Equity - Technology Luxembourg has always been at the forefront of using distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) in the context of financial services, making it one of the major digital assets hubs of the world. A key contributor to

Singapore’s second largest bank, OCBC, has introduced a new blockchain based solution for corporates seeking to diversify their treasury assets. They are offering custom tokenization of corporate bonds, selling the bonds to accredited corporate clients with assets of more than S$10 million. Instead of requiring a minimum investment of S$250,000, the units can be as

Image Source : FILE Spam calls and SMSs The Chairman of TRAI, Anil Kumar Lahoti, announced that the organization is preparing to launch a pilot project this month that aims to incorporate paper-based permissions and previously granted consents from customers for commercial communications into its digital distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. He explained that this

Two prominent participants in the Digital Assets Lab at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), an influential onshore financial and business hub, have joined forces to accelerate the adoption and impact of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and digital assets across various industries. The collaboration between SettleMint, a blockchain transformation firm, and The Hashgraph Group (THG), a

TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said that tighter regulations to curb spam and a new consultation on an authorisation framework for telemarketers are expected soon.  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is also set to launch a pilot program this month to transfer paper-based and past customer permissions for receiving commercial communications onto its