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Canadian law firm Miller Thomson has hired consultancy firm Kroll to perform blockchain analytics work in relation to the ongoing dissolution of QuadrigaCX, the exchange which failed last year after its CEO Gerald Cotten was reported to have died. The firm, which represents the now-former users of Quadriga pursuant to a
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Robinhood announced on Thursday it hired Norm Ashkenas and Kelly Zigatis as chief compliance officers of its Financial and Securities teams. Source
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Hughes had taken over Coinbase's international legal operations earlier this month. Source
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The regulatory-driven digital asset trading platform, designed by finance veterans and traders, will harness Solidus’ solutions to remove market manipulation, protect investors and comply with regulatory requirements.August 19, 2020: Solidus Labs, provider of crypto-native market surveillance and risk monitoring solutions, and BlockQuake™, a regulatory-driven digital asset exchange based in New York,
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IBM is giving its blockchain track-and-trace capabilities the social-impact treatment with a provenance application that enables coffee drinkers to directly assist the smallholders who farmed the beans. Announced Wednesday, IBM has teamed up with J. M. Smucker Company – the $12.2 billion food giant behind coffee brands like Folgers, Café Bustelo
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Institutional digital asset technology firm Metaco is partnering with the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) to find ways of bolstering its services using the think tank’s research. The Switzerland-based company announced Wednesday that it would be tapping research conducted by the FSBC to better inform the security and service design of
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HDBank has signed up to a blockchain network from Contour with the aim of bringing trade finance into the digital realm.The Vietnam-based bank is the latest financial institution to join Contour's network with a view to streamlining the issuance of letters of credit with the use of a blockchain and
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Polish insurance company Link4 has partnered with a regtech firm Coinfirm to streamline document correspondence and storage with a blockchain-based system.Called Trudatum, the blockchain-enabled tool developed by Coinfirm reportedly allows the firm to transfer and store electronic documents and ensure their immutability. For Link4’s customers specifically, it means that their
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Keep Network has tapped Bison Trails to provide non-custodial staking services for tBTC, an ERC-20 representation of bitcoin (BTC) deposits. Keep, a project from blockchain venture studio Thesis, operates tBTC in a trustless manner by breaking bitcoin deposits across smart contracts held by various Keep users.“Infrastructure is
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Tencent’s digital bank WeBank is exploring the integration of the DAML smart contract language for its consortium blockchain FISCO BCOS — the chain that will undergird China’s national Blockchain-Based Service Network (BSN).On April 16, WeBank announced that integration of the Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) — open sourced by its
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