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Broadridge Pilots Blockchain for Repo Trades With French Banks

The investor services firm worked with Natixis and Societe Generale on the pilot, which was based on the Hyperledger Fabric codebase.

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Standard Chartered Joins EquiChain's Capital Markets Blockchain Pilot

Standard Chartered is partnering with fintech startup EquiChain to assist its blockchain pilot focused on bringing efficiencies to capital markets.

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$40 Million: Digital Asset Holdings Closes Series B Fundraising

The enterprise blockchain startup has raised another $40 million in funding and hired a former Microsoft executive.

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Swift Startup Winner Demos Smart Contract Trade with 5 Financial Firms

Blockchain startup SmartContract has today unveiled a new a proof-of-concept built with assistance from five major financial institutions.

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Collaboration FTW: How Blockchain Came So Far, So Fast

Without further cooperation, DLT risks ultimately recreating the many silos and disjointed systems that already exist, warns an executive at the DTCC.

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No Token Response: UNICEF Is Open to Doing Its Own ICO

A UNICEF ICO? The idea doesn't seem so far-fetched to those working at the United Nations programme, despite their humanitarian mandate.

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BlackRock Exec: No Point in Bitcoin ETF

A senior official at asset management giant BlackRock said this week that he doesn't see the case for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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When Not If? Banks Strike Optimistic Tone on Blockchain Impact

A conference in Dublin yesterday united representatives of major financial firms and regulators in discussions over blockchain's way forward.

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Russia's Central Depository Trials Hyperledger for Bond Trading

Russia's central securities depository (CSD) is testing a new blockchain-based commercial bond trading platform built on Hyperledger Fabric.

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Nasdaq Teams with SEB for Blockchain Mutual Fund Trading Trial

The Nasdaq stock exchange and Sweden's SEB bank will work together on trial of a blockchain platform for mutual fund trading.

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