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Russia's Sberbank Launches Blockchain on Hyperledger, Mulls Stablecoin in 2021

Russia's largest retail bank is launching a Hyperledger-powered blockchain for trade finance initially, and may add a ruble-linked stablecoin next year

By Anna Baydakova

Aug 6, 2020 at 2:16 p.m. UTC

Aug 6, 2020

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Finance

Ibm

IBM Takes 7% Stake in Trade Finance Blockchain Network We.Trade

IBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the blockchain-based trade-finance platform jointly owned by 12 European banks.

By Ian Allison

May 21, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. UTC

May 21, 2020

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Tech

Ibm

IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract Option

IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 base layer to support smart contract governance on its blockchain platform.

By Paddy Baker

May 12, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC

May 12, 2020

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Finance

Hyperledger fabric

State Street Slashes DLT Developer Team as Bank Rethinks Blockchain Strategy

State Street Bank has cut over 100 blockchain developer jobs as part of a pivot from transforming its plumbing with DLT to supporting digital assets.

By Ian Allison

Dec 3, 2019 at 10:25 p.m. UTC

Dec 3, 2019

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Markets

Forex

Foreign Exchange Giant CLS Admits: No, We Don’t Need a Blockchain for That

Forex giant CLS is now using a blockchain to handle certain currency trades, but the technology is “not essential” for the task, an executive admits.

By Ian Allison

Oct 8, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. UTC

Oct 8, 2019

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Markets

News

Energy Commodities Trading Software Launches on Hyperledger Fabric

A new software based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain was launched for commodities trading for the gas industry.

By Danny Nelson

Sep 30, 2019 at 4:00 a.m. UTC

Sep 30, 2019

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Markets

Ibm

Travelport, IBM Collaborate on Blockchain for Hotel Commissions

Blockchain will reduce the amount of discrepancies in booking data caused by hotel no-shows, overstays, and room modifications.

By Daniel Kuhn

Aug 21, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. UTC

Aug 21, 2019

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Markets

Finra

It Took 18 Months, But This Blockchain Securities Firm Got the Nod From FINRA

FINRA has approved iownit as a broker-dealer, clearing the firm to offer digital securities on a private Hyperledger blockchain.

By Nate DiCamillo

Aug 20, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Aug 20, 2019

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Markets

Developers

ConsenSys-Backed Truffle Is Taking Its Dev Tools Beyond Just Ethereum

Truffle is expanding to Hyperledger Fabric, Tezos and R3's Corda after clocking 3.5 million downloads from ethereum developers.

By Christine Kim

Aug 2, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Aug 2, 2019

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Markets

Banking

State Street's Blockchain Lead Departs to Build Data Privacy Startup

Moiz Kohari, State Street's global chief technology architect, has left to build a new data privacy startup.

By Ian Allison

May 23, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. UTC

May 23, 2019

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