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LatAm agency brings second digital bond this year in the currency
First use of sterling tokenised deposit to buy tokenised Gilt
More digital bonds are expected from the region this year
Technologists have convinced the European Central Bank and most financial firms that the bond market needs blockchain. Exactly what for is harder to define. Still more difficult is actually introducing it — although as Jon Hay reports, many believe the moment has come
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Two issuance platforms are approaching readiness: one in bonds, one in loans. Both promise time and cost savings by replacing multiple systems with a single platform for issuers, dealers and investors, and automating documentation and payments. -
TrueDigital, a New York company that uses blockchain-based technologies to offer margined deliverable swaps on bitcoin, has hired Michel Finzi, a former managing director and SVP at Instinet, as its chief commercial officer. It has also hired two ex-Citigroup bankers as salespeople.
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One of the fondest hopes of the cryptocurrency true believers looks set to come true this year. Real decentralised value transfer systems could be on their way both to retail and institutional banking. But, in a cruelly ironic twist, they will be delivered by the blackest names in individual privacy and financial libertarianism.
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Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse have completed of a repo transaction using blockchain technology, opening up the possibility of a secondary market environment operating on distributed ledger.
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Jamie Dimon, long known to be among the mouthiest of the titans of investment banking and the loudest bitcoin sceptic of all, now presides over the first ever cryptocurrency from a major bank.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is looking to set up its own platform in collaboration with the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Sarreb) in order to shift European non-performing loans (NPLs).
