Tagged: corda

February 16, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

R3, the financial markets digital solutions provider, announces considerable momentum across projects, having reached the milestone of $10 billion in on-chain real-world assets (RWAs) across live Corda-based platforms, with over “1 million transactions processed each day.” Following the launch of its Digital Markets product suite… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 3:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

R3, the creator of Corda, a permissioned blockchain for tokenizing assets, has announced a partnership with IDEMIA Secure Transactions (IST) to boost its ability to issue central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). IDEMIA is a provider of payments and connectivity solutions that can also handle offline… Read More

November 7, 2024 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

R3 and its Corda platform have been selected to provide services for the European DLT [distributed ledger technology] pilot regime. Corda is the first DLT to be approved by ESMA [the European Securities and Markets Authority] The DLT Pilot Regime opened up applications in the… Read More

November 2, 2024 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bloomberg had reported this past week that enterprise blockchain company R3 has held discussions with certain representatives at Ava Labs (which is known to be focused on the development of Avalanche), the Solana Foundation and Adhara regarding a possible minority investment in the company, or… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

R3, a permissioned blockchain provder targeting the enterprise sector, is partnering with Ownera on interoperability solutions for R3’s blockchain Corda. Ownera specializes in digital securities or “tokenized” assets. Ownera seeks to boost distribution and liquidity by connecting tokenized assets, enabling the negotiation and settlement of… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 11:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, CI reported that multiple regulators around the world had announced a partnership to collaborate on digital asset, or crypto asset, innovation. The goal is to enable innovation to thrive while protecting investors. The agencies participating in the partnership include the UK Financial Conduct Authority… Read More

June 20, 2023 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, announced the next generation of its flagship platform Corda at its hosted event in New York. The updated version has been “designed for global financial market infrastructure providers and central banks to enable applications to… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

DTCC Ion Platform Processing 100,000+ Transactions per Day The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a vital post-trade custody and asset servicing firm, says its blockchain-based platform Ion is live and in production, operating in parallel with its legacy system. DTCC shares that it has… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Catalyst Blockchain Platform is now available on Corda, the distributed ledger technology platform from R3, “created specifically for highly-regulated markets.” Users benefit from both Corda Community Edition and Corda Enterprise Edition, “using Catalyst’s highly-automated processes and intuitive user interface to streamline the development, deployment, and… Read More

May 9, 2022 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

LedgerEdge has announced a regulated bond trading platform that utilizes distributed ledger technology (DLT or blockchain). LedgerEdge has selected Corda’s R3 permissioned blockchain to power the trading platform. LedgerEdge shares that it is targeting the $41 trillion global corporate bond market, much of which is… Read More

October 23, 2021 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 70 financial institutions have reportedly worked with Valk‘s digital transaction and tokenization platform this year. Private market digital platform VALK says that it is “building for expansion after achieving over $4 billion in assets and deals managed on its platform in a year” as… Read More

April 23, 2021 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS Bank and Contour have expanded their digital trade offerings to four new markets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. As mentioned in a release, digital letter of credit capabilities will be offered in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Singapore starting this month. The announcement also… Read More

April 21, 2021 @ 9:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global enterprise software company R3’s Development Fund has reportedy reached the milestone of $10 million in capital deployed “across over 30 investments in more than 20 of the most promising early-stage blockchain and confidential computing companies,” according to a release shared with CI. As noted… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based #dltledgers, a blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for conducting cross-border trade, trade finance, and handling supply chain digitization, has secured $7 million in capital through a Series A round. The firm’s investment round was led by Regis and Savoy Capital, Vittal, Walden… Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 10:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

R3 will expand its presence in Thailand, including new hires, after the renewal of its partnership with Bangkok Bank, according to a statement by the firm. Amit Ghosh, Head of APAC, R3, stated: “Thai enterprises are at the forefront of innovation, digital transformation and blockchain… Read More

November 2, 2020 @ 9:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Skyhook Capital Pte Ltd, a Fintech firm focused on the distribution of “investment-grade” digital assets to institutional and retail clients, has teamed up with Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL), the global digital asset liquidity network for financial institutions that are built on Corda. As… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Emma Channing  |  

Back in December, I wrote a piece for Coindesk’s Year in Review 2019 entitled “Security Token Offerings Are (Finally) Set for Takeoff in 2020”.  This was before word of COVID-19 became widespread and before many of the cataclysmic events of 2020 were even imaginable.  Thus… Read More

April 7, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Propine Seeks to Power the Future of Digital Assets Singapore has long been a leader in Fintech. Innovative financial services have benefited from a supportive regulatory regime and an entrepreneurial population. Singapore is also a highly business-friendly, low tax jurisdiction and has emerged as a… Read More

April 5, 2020 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hex Trust has reportedly become the very first licensed crypto-asset custodian in Hong Kong to integrate its services with R3’s Corda platform. The integration will allow the blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform to be used by Hex Trust’s virtual asset custody solution. R3… Read More

March 14, 2020 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

R3 an enterprise blockchain platform that has developed “Corda” and was founded with the support of multiple financial services firms, has hired Dorothy Copeland, as Global Head of Partner Ecosystem & Alliances. Copeland previously worked at both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM. While at… Read More