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Philippine bank, fintech XLOG to offer blockchain-based logistics financing

Union Bank’s financial supply chain platform to be integrated with XLOG’s logistics platform. Union Bank of the Philippines and fintech firm XLOG have teamed up to offer the Philippines’ first blockchain-powered supply chain financing solution embedded in a logistics platform. “We are firm believers in how blockchain technology can bridge gaps in

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Paxos receives ‘preliminary conditional approval’ for US bank charter

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted today stablecoin company and PayPal collaborator Paxos a federal charter to form a national trust bank — just the third such charter the OCC has granted crypto-native companies. Paxos joins custody firm Achorage, who was the first to receive

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European Investment Bank reportedly to issue bonds with blockchain tech

The European Investment Bank, an international financial institution owned by European Union member states, is reportedly exploring blockchain technology for issuing digital bonds.According to a Tuesday Bloomberg report, the EIB has hired major global banks like Goldman Sachs, Banco Santander and Societe Generale to look at a potential deal involving

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C.R.E.A.M. launches Iron Bank flash loans, eyes cross-chain capital efficiency

In a press release today, C.R.E.A.M. Finance announced a new feature for (and, by proxy, an unofficial relaunch of) Iron Bank, the protocol-to-protocol lending platform designed for flash and undercollateralized loans. C.R.E.A.M., which founder Leo Cheng describes as “the yolo-est Compound fork,” is a money market designed to cover assets that

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Phemex Launches OTC Trading, Enables Crypto Purchase with Bank Transfers

Phemex, the fastest crypto exchange and futures trading platform has introduced OTC Trading service in partnership with Legend Trading — a Silicon Valley-based, regulatory-compliant OTC trading service. With this new addition, users on Phemex can now safely buy and sell cryptocurrencies through USD wire transfer as well as other options,

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After breaking $100 billion TVL, DeFi is now the equivalent of a top 40 U.S. bank

According to decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem tracker DeFiLlama, early this morning the DeFi ecosystem breached $100 billion in total value locked for the first time — rising 7% from $94.7 billion yesterday to $101.33 billion at the time of publication.Aside from the psychologically significant 9th digit, the figure is notable

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