Blockchain

A blueprint for a shared ledger for digital money would include central bank digital currencies, bank deposits and e-money from companies like PayPal — but not unsupervised cryptocurrencies.

A Federal Reserve Bank of New York unit will partner with almost a dozen banks and other financial institutions to test out digital dollars, a sign that Wall Street intends to push ahead with its cryptocurrency agenda despite recent upheaval in the market. 

FV Bank will let customers hold, transfer and settle both digital assets and fiat currencies in one account.

A neon purple vending machine dispensing nonfungible tokens for £10 ($11.18) a pop has materialized in the middle of London, drawing frosty stares from passers-by in the British capital. 

JPMorgan Chase executed its first live trade on a public blockchain, a significant step toward integrating with the plumbing underlying the world of cryptocurrencies.

Anchorage Digital Bank and the Provenance Blockchain Foundation have partnered to let banks take a stake in the Provenance blockchain, run nodes of it and receive fees and peace of mind in return.

Customers Bank, Cogent Bank and Western Alliance bank settled 400  transactions among themselves in real time, over the course of eight hours.

Angel Oak Capital Advisors has helped institutional clients buy subordinated debt with the assistance of a distributed ledger developed by Brightvine. Benefits to the issuer and investors include a central place to find all documents and automated updates when banks pay off their loans.

SWIFT, the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to convey instructions on tens of millions of transactions each day, is testing out blockchain.