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IQ-EQ opens GIFT City office
14 February 2024 India
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Atul Muchala, managing director for India, will lead both the new location and the company’s existing Mumbai office

Stefano Dallavalle named R3’s head of product - digital assets
30 January 2024 UK
Reporter: Jack McRae

Dallavalle joins R3 from LedgerEdge UK, having spent nine months at the London-based company as product designer.

R3 launches Digital Markets product suite
24 January 2024 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Kate Karimson has been appointed chief commercial officer and will lead the roll out of the suite

Fnality raises £77.7 million in Series B funding
14 November 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

This fundraising round for the digital payments fintech was led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas with involvement from DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura, WisdomTree and a number of other investors

World Bank issues first English Law DNN
24 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The first Digitally Native Note has been issued under English Law via Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure

EquiLend enhances SSI repository and management capability using SSImple
05 September 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The two companies indicate that this solution, built on R3 Corda DLT platform, is designed to address the challenges presented by inaccurate standing settlement instructions (SSIs) and to deliver a more efficient and secure trading environment

Zodia Custody among companies conducting the first uncleared crypto derivatives trades
23 June 2023 UK
Reporter: Macy Heath

Zodia Custody, SBI Alpha, QCP Capital and Clear Markets have conducted the first uncleared crypto derivatives trades in an effort to make the crypto ecosystem safer

R3 releases beta version of new gen Corda platform
14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through consultation with the Corda community, this evolution is driven by scalability, enhanced privacy and security, user friendly dev tools and the new generation platform’s ability to interconnect and interoperate with other DLT platforms

ESMA goes live with DLT pilot
23 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The pilot builds on the existing MiFIR regulation to include tokenised financial instruments. This aims to bring pre- and post-trade transparency and market abuse monitoring to DLT-based securities

BIS completes Project Icebreaker central bank digital currency pilot
06 March 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Working alongside central banks from Israel, Norway and Sweden, the PoC evaluates the technical feasibility of making cross-border and cross-currency payments between retail CBDC systems

Vanguard launches blockchain platform in Australia
07 December 2022 Australia
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Held on R3’s Corda blockchain platform, DLTA provides a single, integrated, back-office solution for global assets

DTCC’s Project Ion live in parallel production environment
22 August 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The distributed-ledger technology (DLT) driven settlement service, Project Ion, is now processing an average of more than 100,000 bilateral equity trades daily and more than 160,000 transactions on peak days in parallel production