Startup Digital Asset Holdings has hit a milestone amid the frenzy for Blockchain funding as the pioneer of distributed ledger technology for financial services firms reports that it has the financial endorsement of IT giant IBM and Wall Street powerhouse, the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., raising the total for its recent funding round to more… Read More >>
Blockchain Startup Digital Asset Hires Conde and Church
Blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings has hired industry veterans Cristóbal Conde, the former head of SunGard, and Chris Church, a North American executive for the SWIFT cooperative, underscoring the disruptive distributed ledger technology’s ability to bring together old and new school technologies and practices. The Blockchain ledger underpins the Bitcoin cryptocurrency by keeping track… Read More >>
Chris Church to Leave as SWIFT Shuffles Execs
SWIFT reports senior management changes, including the exit of Chris Church as SWIFT’s chief executive of the Americas and global head of securities, that the member-owned financial messaging cooperative says will better enable it to execute its recently approved 2020 strategy. The staff changes, which take effect on September 1, are: Christian Sarafidis, currently head… Read More >>
SWIFT and ‘Amigos’ to Tackle Buy Side’s Manual Processes
SWIFT is paving the way for a pilot program that would allow small-to-medium sized buy-side firms to automate confirmations and allocations through their sell-side counterparties, confirm officials of the financial messaging services consortium. Speaking at the SWIFT Operations Forum—2012 in New York, Chris Church, chief executive and global head of securities for SWIFT Americas, yesterday… Read More >>
