Thursday, July 10, 2025

Spanish stock exchange ready to test blockchain-based SME financing system

Spanish stock exchange Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, or BME is set to test its blockchain infrastructure for small- and medium-sized enterprise financing following a successful pilot run back in 2020.According to Finextra on Friday, this next set of trials by BME will involve businesses that are part of the country’s SME

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Coinbase Banks On Dogecoin Listing To Revive Stuttering Fortunes

Divisive meme token Dogecoin will get a Coinbase listing within the next six to eight weeks. The comments came from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who was discussing how the firm can move forward following its worse-than-expected first earnings report as a public company. However, with Dogecoin struggling to recover after Elon Musk’s

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Diginex’s crypto custody arm receives green light from UK financial watchdog

Financial regulators in the U.K. have approved Digivault, the security token custody arm of digital assets group Diginex, to register as a custodian wallet provider.In an announcement from Diginex today, the firm said the Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, had given the green light to Digivault to register as a

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New Australian Islamic finance DeFi platform is ‘guided by Sharia’

A team based out of Sydney, Australia is building what it claims is the world’s first “Shariah-guided” decentralized finance platform to navigate a course between the advantages of DeFi and the beliefs of Islamic finance.The Marhaba Decentralized Financial Platform — Marhaba translates to “welcome” in Arabic — is expected to

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Microsoft quietly closing down Azure blockchain in September

Microsoft is turning off its corporate Azure Blockchain Service on September 10 and will not accept any new deployments effective immediately, with no official explanation provided.Large corporate customers who use Azure Blockchain include J.P. Morgan, GE Aviation, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks, and Xbox according to its website.The announcement was made in

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