The Digital Container Shipping Association, a Dutch non-profit comprising nine big carriers including Maersk, MSC, Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming, has gotten all members to agree to standardize on electron...
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NFTy Arcade integrates with Splinterlands to bring monetary value to digital property
Advertisement     Skyler Meine, a former serial entrepreneur, and Tyler Jorgensen, a lifelong gamer and product creator, co-founded NFTy Arcade, which is developing te...
Multinational Conglomerate Siemens Issues Digital Bond on Public Blockchain
The bond was offered directly to investors including DekaBank, DZ Bank, and Union Investment. The procedure allowed for transactions to be carried out far more quickly and efficiently. Siemens, a Germ...
Siemens Goes Digital For Million-Dollar Bond
The engineering company has issued a $64 million digital bond on a public blockchain, claiming that it is much faster than the traditional channels of issuing bonds. $65M Digital Bonds Siemens has bec...
German Industry Giant Siemens Issues Its First Digital Bond On The Blockchain
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Siemens, an industry giant in the German market, has issued the country’s first digital bond in accordance with the country’s Ele...
€60 million ($65 M) Digital bond on Public blockchain by Siemens
The German conglomerate issued digital bonds with Polygon public blockchain. They also used blockchains as bank guarantees in 2018. Digital securities have lately become a huge buzz in financial mark...
Bitcoin Deposits to Singaporean Digital Asset Bank Doubles in 2022
DBS saw an 80% rise in BTC trades and twice the deposits from the previous year. The bank’s ETH custody rose by 60%, while the traded volume increase by 65%. DDEx is a members-only exchange for corpor...
Binance and Huobi Freeze Accounts Holding 1.4M Stolen Digital Assets
Binance and Huobi froze accounts containing $1.4 million worth of digital assets. The frozen funds are connected to the Harmony Bridge heist in June 2022. The crypto analytics platform Elliptic probed...
Nomura’s Laser Digital invests in DeFi protocol Infinity Exchange
Laser Digital, the crypto subsidiary of Japanese financial services giant Nomura, invested in Infinity Exchange, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for institutional lending and borrowing. ...
Siemens announces issuance of 1st digital bond on Polygon
Ad Siemens, Germany’s third-largest publicly traded company by market cap, has issued its first digital bond worth €60 million ($64 million) on the Polygon blockchain. The bond was issued in accordanc...
Ukraine Speeds Up Digital Hryvnia Project, Plans Pilot for This Year – Finance Bitcoin News
Ukrainian authorities are speeding up the development of the electronic hryvnia, a high-ranking government official indicated. The executive power in Kyiv is now in talks with the central bank and bus...
Industry Needs Access but US Regulators Keep Digital Assets at Bay
“Obviously a couple people have gotten into trouble, but [regulators] aren’t saying, ‘Hey, you can’t bank these clients, they’re verboten,” Butler said. “They’re definitely trying to ring-fence it … b...
Siemens issues digital bond on blockchain- The Cryptonomist
German industrial giant Siemens has issued its first digital bond on public blockchain. The bond has a face value of €60 million and a maturity of one year. Blockchain allows bonds to be sold directly...
Ukraine Ministry Launches Digital Assets Course
According to deputy minister Bornyakov, over 20,000 Ukraine nationals have registered for the course. Ukraine has launched a free course to educate its citizens on the rudiments of cryptocurrencies as...
Armistice Capital reports 9.9% stake in miner Stronghold Digital
Hedge fund Armistice Capital took a 9.9% beneficial ownership stake in bitcoin miner Stronghold Digital Mining, according to a filing. The fund had an existing stake in the company, but it̵...
UAE to issue CBDC for digital payments
The latest developments on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) financial infrastructure transformation (FIT) program highlights the country’s Apex bank’s intention to launch a central bank digital currency...
Credit Suisse leads $65 million Series B in digital asset firm Taurus
Taurus SA, a Switzerland-based digital asset infrastructure company focused on servicing financial institutions in Europe, raised $65 million in a Series B funding round. Credit Suisse, Switzerl...
CBUAE Plans to Launch Central Bank Digital Currency
As part of the first phase of its recently initiated financial infrastructure transformation (FIT) initiative, the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) has plans to introduce a central ban...
Galaxy Digital gets approval for Bahamas subsidiary amid rising US regulatory uncertainty
Galaxy Bahamas, a subsidiary of Mike Novogratz’s crypto investment firm, received approval from the Securities Commission of The Bahamas in December for registration as a digital asset business ...
Why The UAE Central Bank Is Interested In Issuing A Digital Currency
In recent months, initiatives surrounding central bank digital currencies, (CBDC) have gained traction as banking authorities attempt to streamline cross-border transactions and stimulate innovation ...
India’s Central Bank Reveals 50,000 Users and 5,000 Merchants Now Using Digital Rupee – Regulation Bitcoin News
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has revealed that 50,000 users and 5,000 merchants are now using its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Digital rupee transactions are current...
The Weekend Shift: FTX, Digital Pound, Politics
Welcome to the 105th Weekend Shift! What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write a...
Digital Asset Protection Firm Coincover Secures $30 Million in Funding Round
The digital asset security business Coincover, which has its headquarters in London, raised a total of $30 million in funding in a round that was headed by Foundation Capital and included a follow-on ...
From the stone age to the digital era
Mining is the process of extracting valuable minerals, metals and other resources from the earth. This may entail extracting minerals from underground deposits or from the earth’s surface. The mineral...
‘Clients Are Absolutely Interested in Digital Assets’ – Featured Bitcoin News
Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has revealed that its clients “are absolutely interested in digital assets.” Emphasizing the need for clear crypto regulation, the bank’s head of digital assets no...
Institutions ‘Absolutely Interested’ in Digital Assets: BNY Mellon Exec
The head of the digital assets unit at BNY Mellon — the world’s largest custodian bank — has reaffirmed his bullishness on blockchain. Speaking at a recent fintech and regulation conference, BNY Mello...
Where 500 CxOs See Digital Transformation Headed In 2023
C-suite leaders have an insatiable appetite for cutting-edge tech moving into 2023. Over 500 CxOs believe that technology will drive resilience and future competitive advantage as well as be essential...
Crypto Market Turns Bearish After SEC Wages War on Digital Asset Staking
The cryptocurrency market has turned bearish in the past 24 hours with Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down approximately 4 and 5.6 percent respectively. According to the latest crypto price oracles, the ...
FanDuel Co-Founders Raise $4M for Digital Music Collectible Startup Vault
“Given their success in founding FanDuel, the team at Vault understands the power of engaged communities and the importance of consumer-friendly design,” said Placeholder VC partner Chris Burniske in ...
Crypto Exchange Binance Adds Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Three Other Altcoins As Verifiable Digital Assets
The world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume is adding Shiba Inu (SHIB) and three other altcoins to its list of verifiable crypto assets. In a new company blog post, Binance says its introdu...
The Bank of England is Looking to Build a Digital Pound
The Bank of England, along with the United Kingdom’s Treasury, is exploring the possibility of a digital currency that would purportedly maintain monetary stability in the UK’s economy. In a joi...
Gazprombank suggests banks be given more time to adjust to digital
Gazprombank, which is an unit of the main Russian government-owned gas business, Gazprom, has openly recommended that banks be given extra time before the implementation of the digital currency. Becau...