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"By partnering with Libeara to offer a tokenized Singapore dollar government bond fund for all our investors, we are ensuring that we can provide additional investment opportunities enabled by lower operating costs, higher transparency and higher operational efficiency,” Sue Lynn Lim, CEO and COO of FundBridge Capital said in the
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Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals and Merkle roots — to an off-chain environment. It was superseded by optimistic
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SC Ventures, the fintech investment arm of British bank Standard Chartered, will establish a “Digital Asset Joint Venture” investment company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with a Japanese financial conglomerate, SBI Holdings. In the press release from Nov. 9, Alex Manson, the CEO of SC Ventures, revealed the
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Zodia, the institutional cryptocurrency custody platform co-owned by British banking giant Standard Chartered, Japanese SBI Holdings and the financial firm Northern Trust, is expanding its services to Hong Kong.Zodia Custody is launching services in Hong Kong in response to growing demand for crypto from institutions, Zodia CEO Julian Sawyer said,
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With Ireland’s approval, Zodia can now offer over-the-counter trading and exchange services to institutional clients in the European Union. Zodia Markets, a crypto brokerage and exchange backed by Standard Chartered and OSL, has been approved by the Central Bank of Ireland to operate as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP). It
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Ireland is emerging as an attractive destination for crypto firms; Coinbase designated the country as its EU hub earlier this month. Source
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Despite the recent setbacks, Standard Chartered had been on an upward trajectory before the China-related issues came to the forefront. Shares of UK-based banking giant Standard Chartered Plc (LON: STAN) plummeted by as much as 17% during early trading, leading to a temporary halt in trade, and by 11:15 a.m. London
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As blockchain technology continues to mature, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered’s initiative offers a promising vision of the financial world’s future. German banking giant Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures have begun testing the UDPN, a system that promises to ensure seamless communication and interoperability between various digital
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The UDPN’s transaction nodes are where the magic happens, being connected to currency systems and currency pools,” Schacher said in an interview. “The way to envision it is each currency needs a transaction of its own, so to speak. This could be central banks in the future, owning transactions and
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Lightspark’s recent endorsement of the Universal Money Address standard marks a pivotal development in the realm of global digital payments, inviting a thorough exploration of its potential benefits, challenges, and implications in the rapidly evolving financial technology landscape. Lightspark has thrown its weight behind the Universal Money Address (UMA) standard, promoting
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