Blockchain
CME to launch bitcoin futures
Client interest inspires fourth-quarter launch target for cash-settled contract
R3 claims progress on smart contracts standards
DLT consortium under pressure to show cohesion after JP Morgan departure
Nex Group’s Knott untangles banks’ trade challenges
Post-trade business reorganises with a focus on cost-cutting and simplification
Netting no problem for blockchain, tech firms tell regulators
Firms say DLT can sit with current market practice, but instantaneous settlement 'not desirable'
Energy industry dips toe in choppy blockchain waters
Tests of permissioned distributed ledger technology display efficiency gains, but complications persist
Blockchain smart contracts raise systemic risk concerns
Automated swaps margin payments could exacerbate systemic risks, regulators warn
Digital Asset enters healthcare as blockchain questions grow
Masters’ firm quietly moves beyond finance; works with PNC Bank
Masters: blockchain could ease margin headaches
Margining non-cleared derivatives a “massively under-optimised space”, says Digital Asset chief
R3 set to unveil blockchain for syndicated loan trades
Credit Suisse, US Bank and others to showcase results in March; no update on Digital Asset and JP Morgan project
R3 banks disagree over DLT implementation
Blockchain consortium confident it can raise $150 million by next summer
Smart contracts face cleared world challenge, R3 Summit hears
Follow-on contracting not legally enforceable in some jurisdictions
R3’s Rutter: swaps will trade on blockchain in five years
Risk USA: first distributed ledger products could hit the market in 2017
CFETS joins R3-led project
Number of participants rises above 60 since September 2015 launch
The decline of the cash empire
Alex Lipton: the last line of defence between us and punitive negative rates is paper currency
Banks test blockchain potential for real-time market surveillance
Regulators can monitor a million active trades and hundreds of messages per second in swap test
An imperfect solution: Derivatives create new challenges for buy side
Sponsored survey analysis: Calypso Technology
Blockchain: a solution looking for a problem
While new financial technologies show considerable promise, many proposed applications are either naive or miss the mark outright
Commodities may be a sweet spot for blockchain
Some aspects of commodity markets make them a natural fit for distributed ledger technology
Fintech firms seek to apply blockchain to commodities
Potential uses range from tracking physical assets to payment systems for rooftop solar
Central banks eye advantages of digital currencies
BoE economist says digital currencies might improve real policy rates, tax rates and bank competition
Central banks are not fintech accelerators – Bundesbank
German payments authority says fintech should receive equal regulatory treatment to banks
Smart contracts to slash time and costs, say technologists
Blockchain to deliver lucrative benefits to derivatives market, London conference hears
Blockchain creators call for new reference data paradigm
Derivatives trade identifiers to leverage off cryptographic hashes