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OTCXN Signs International Crypto Broker OSL

OTCXN, a blockchain-powered capital markets infrastructure company is pleased to announce that OSL, the largest OTC digital asset brokerage company in Asia-Pacific, has joined the OTCXN network. OSL is now a Core Liquidity Provider in cryptocurrencies for OTCXN’s rapidly expanding institutional client base.
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Gemini launches USD-pegged Ethereum token

Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has announced the creation of a USD-pegged Ethereum token. The new cryptocurrency, called the Gemini dollar, is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar and is built on the Ethereum network according to the ERC20 standard for tokens.
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Commerzbank and thyssenkrupp process FX transaction via Blockchain

thyssenkrupp has traded an FX Forward with Commerzbank and the transaction was instantaneously replicated in a Blockchain successfully.
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ThinkCoin and GMEX announce partnership

ThinkCoin has entered into a partnership with GMEX Group. GMEX’s Fusion platform combines GMEX’s traditional centralised trading systems, which are currently live in multiple exchanges and post-trade venues, with the latest blockchain technology offering the best of both worlds for exchanges, clearing-houses and other institutions.
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OTC Exchange Network Completes Live Test Trade of Fiat and Cryptocurrency

OTC Exchange Network, Inc. ("OTCXN"), a blockchain-powered capital markets infrastructure company,has announced that it completed its first live test trades, which it believes to be the world’s first...
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OTC Exchange Network Acquires Ogg Trading

OTC Exchange Network, Inc. ("OTCXN"), a blockchain-powered capital markets infrastructure company, today announced that it has acquired Ogg Trading, LLC (“Ogg Trading”), a provider of advanced institutional trading technology.
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DV Trading joins OTC Exchange Network Early Adopter program

OTC Exchange Network ("OTCXN"), an institutional trading network and technology provider focused on using blockchain technologies to re-engineer financial markets by building digital asset exchanges and directly connecting market participants, is announcing that DV Trading, a Chicago-based proprietary trading group, has joined OTCXN’s Early Adopter Program as a liquidity provider
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Editors Pick

Who cares about cryptocurrencies?

William Essex explains that cryptocurrencies are an expression of the blockchain but wonders whether they are necessary.
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Blockchain gets as easy as ABC

Soon, we’ll all be enabled, says William Essex.
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Catching Blockchain’s Wave

William Essex explores two possible futures with the Blockchain and talks about finding a more likely one somewhere between them.
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Blockchain as you like it

Far from disrupting the system, blockchain has become part of the system says William Essex.
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Getting to grips with ICOs

William Essex explores whether or not blockchain-based tokenised liquidity platforms will justify the “hype” and disrupt the traditional retail FX-trading model.
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Blockchain comes to the boil

William Essex reports about some very interesting times in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.
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Back to Bitcoin?

Blockchain builders and regulators need to facetheir greatest fear, suggests William Essex.
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Keeping up with the blockchain

Everybody’s talking about it and you should belistening, says William Essex
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The Blockchain Ecosystem - Who can you trust?

Cryptocurrencies are back in fashion with blockchaindesigners. But future prosperity really depends on bankersgetting past their trust issues, says William Essex.
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Provider Interviews

Blockchain plus

Adel is a technology incubator for blockchain innovation. Not unusual these days, but there’s a twist. Adel’s approach seems to be pulling in the FX industry. “A majority of registered users in our ecosystem are FX and crypto traders,” says Gabriel Dusil, general manager and co-founder, Adel. William Essex went to talk to him.
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Collateral goes digital

OTCXN has signed Kingdom Trust and Prime Trust to act as custodians of assets for traders and exchanges on the company’s blockchain-based network. What does this mean for the future of crypto-trading? Rosario Ingargiola, CEO and founder of OTCXN, spoke to William Essex about tokenisation and risk.
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Leveraging DLT at the multi-asset app store

CLS is working with IBM on a PoC for its shared DLT network for financial services, LedgerConnect. This may just be the missing link between banks and fintech innovators, and it may have significant impacts for FX and other asset classes. Key features in the box at the end, but first, Ram Komarraju, Head of Innovation and Solution Delivery at CLS spoke to William Essex about LedgerConnect’s potential to change the way we do business.
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Cobalt closes in on Q1 launch

Founded in 2015 with the audacious vision of re-engineering post-trade FX using distributed ledger technology, Cobalt has partnered with key participants including Citi, XTX Markets and Citadel. As the company prepares to launch its service in the coming months, Canecto.info forex talks to co-founder and chief executive Andy Coyne about Cobalt’s journey so far and its ambitions for the future.
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R3 grows more ambitious as its network widens

Launched by FX industry veteran David Rutter, R3 now operates in nine countries with 140 staff and is aiming to re-build the operating system for the financial services industry through a series of partnerships. e-Forex talks to head of external affairs Charley Cooper about the strengths of R3’s Corda platform and the potential of distributed ledger technology in FX and beyond.
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Bitcoin - take it seriously

Jersey-based Global Advisors offer the listed GlobalAdvisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI) and their BitcoinTracker One ETN, which you’ll find on Nasdaq. Take onelook at GABI’s performance since inception in 2014, andyou’ll want to know more. William Essex spoke to JeanMarieMognetti, co-principal, head of trading & operations,Global Advisors.
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The A-Z of Blockchain

Blockchain around the world

Conferences & Events

Nasdaq TradeTalks interview with Rosario Ingargiola CEO of OTCXN