Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) and FTF News are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The variety and high volume of nominations are clear signs that fintech achievement is alive and kicking amid the challenges of a global pandemic, volatile markets, and a steady flow of game-changers such… Read More >>
Voting for the FTF Awards Starts March 14
We are very close to officially announcing the nominees for the highly competitive FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2022, which means that the most important step is next — industry voters picking the winners. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, the voting process will begin on March 14 and end on April 22. The FTF Awards,… Read More >>
Crypto-Assets Could Threaten Global Markets: FSB
While global financial markets widely embrace digital assets, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is warning via a new report that fast-evolving crypto-assets could ultimately threaten “global financial stability due to their scale, structural vulnerabilities and increasing interconnectedness with the traditional financial system.” The FSB report, “Assessment of Risks to Financial Stability from Crypto-Assets,” sets out… Read More >>
Q&A: Can DLT Help Advance FX Forward Contracts?
(This past December, Symbiont collaborated with State Street Corp. and Vanguard on a live test of a margin calculation process that is central to the transaction of a 30-day, foreign exchange forward contract. At the heart of the transaction was Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Assembly, which has been the focus of the trio… Read More >>
The Fed Is Starting to Think About CBDCs
The Federal Reserve is mulling what a digital currency backed by a central bank would look like. This should come as no surprise given the onset of blockchains and distributed ledger technology, and then cryptocurrencies and digital assets in many forms. They all have had an underlying driver – a disintermediation push to bring on… Read More >>
tZero’s ATS Fumbled Disclosures: SEC
The SEC and the blockchain-based, broker-dealer tZero ATS have reached a settlement in a case where the regulator alleged that the firm while trading National Market System and digitally enhanced securities failed to make timely disclosures via Form ATS before key order book data was shared with third parties. tZero ATS, which is based in… Read More >>
Crypto Crime Hits $14B in 2021: Report
Crypto investors beware. The good news: Crypto-crime is “becoming a smaller and smaller part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.” That’s according to a blog post “preview” of the 2022 “Crypto Crime Report” from Chainalysis, a cloud-based, blockchain data and analysis platform provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City. The not-so-good news: Crypto crime… Read More >>
SWIFT Enlists SETL for Digital Asset Ops Pilot
The SWIFT financial messaging and services cooperative is exploring how it might facilitate interoperability among the distributed ledgers used to underpin the tokenized asset market, and London-based blockchain upstart vendor SETL has joined the effort. “SWIFT plans a series of experiments in Q1 2022 leveraging its trusted role as a central platform to explore the… Read More >>
ISITC’s Back Even Stronger in 2022: Q&A
(Kristin Hochstein is the new chair of ISITC for the 2022-23 term, and she foresees the industry standards trade group in the new year as not simply what it was before the pandemic but “even stronger and with a new lens.” Hochstein takes over from Lisa Iagatta, who finished her three-year term as chair at… Read More >>
Get Ready for the FTF Awards 2022
Get your nominations ready for the highly competitive FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2022 — now in its 12th year — presented by Financial Technologies Forum and the FTF News service. Since 2011, FTF has celebrated and recognized the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry bodies, regulators, and other industry participants that have made… Read More >>
