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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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German exchange group Deutsche Börse has bought a minority stake in fintech company HQLAx and says that it is “likely to acquire further shareholdings” at the end of the year. -
Venezuela's petro seems destined to hang around like a bad smell rather than drifting into obscurity, as it deserves to. The country's president Nicolás Maduro has made it the basis of his country’s economy. It is an utter farce.
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World Bank is preparing to launch a bond on the blockchain — the first ever publicly issued deal to be created, allocated and settled entirely using blockchain technology.
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Surprising exactly no one, big beast exchange ICE has joined its peers and entered the cryptocurrency market in earnest. More than eight months after competitors Cboe and CME launched cash-settled bitcoin futures contracts, this month ICE revealed Bakkt, a “global platform and ecosystem for digital assets”.
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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) on Monday laid out a framework to oversee the financial stability risks posed by the cryptocurrency market. However, the body warned that some public data could be “manipulated” due to “prohibited practices such as wash trading, spoofing and pump and dump”.
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Swiss market infrastructure operator SIX Group will combine digital asset trading, settlement and custody services in a new digital exchange for its customers. The CEO of SIX Group, Jos Dijsselhof, said it was the “beginning of a new era for capital markets infrastructure”.
