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ForkLog 19 23.12.2020

Otkritie Factoring joins Factorin blockchain platform

A blockchain platform for trade finance Factorin and the fintech company Otkritie Factoring have signed a partnership agreement.

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ForkLog 16 22.12.2020

Nornickel’s Palladium Fund Issues First Tokens

The palladium fund established by Nornickel, Global Palladium Fund, issued the first tokens to digitize part of the mining and metallurgical company's contracts with industrial partners.

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ForkLog 23 16.12.2020

Germany approves blockchain storage of stock-transaction records

The German government approved a bill that legitimises fully electronic securities within a broader blockchain strategy. Previously, the law required issuers and holders of securities to document transactions only with a paper certificate, Reuters reports.

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ForkLog 11 16.12.2020

Waves Enterprise to implement decentralized identity in blockchain voting

The Waves Enterprise blockchain platform and Ontology have signed a memorandum of understanding. The parties are interested in applying decentralized user identification via blockchain.

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ForkLog 22 16.12.2020

Malta’s banks jeopardise plans for a ‘blockchain island’

Malta, crypto- and blockchain-friendly, faced a reluctance among local banks to work with industry representatives. This was reported, citing the country’s finance minister Clyde Caruana, by Lovin Malta.

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ForkLog 20 15.12.2020

IBM analyzes blockchain usage in global markets

The benefits of blockchain technology in global markets can only be assessed with reliable data sharing, according to a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) report.

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ForkLog 23 10.12.2020

SpaceChain secures funding to develop satellite blockchain infrastructure

British company SpaceChain, together with consortium partners, received a grant of £440,000 for the joint development of a decentralized satellite infrastructure (DSI) based on blockchain-based equipment.

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ForkLog 28 07.12.2020

Standard Chartered and UnionBank issue blockchain bonds worth $187 million

The Philippines’ largest bank, UnionBank, and Standard Chartered Bank have completed testing a proof-of-concept for issuing tokenized blockchain bonds worth $187 million, according to a press release.

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ForkLog 13 04.12.2020

MTS joins Factorin blockchain platform

The Factorin blockchain platform for trade finance has begun operating in the non-food retail segment, with its first client in this direction being the MTS retail network. ForkLog was told by platform representatives.

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ForkLog 13 04.12.2020

Spotify opens vacancy for a senior executive with blockchain experience

The music-streaming service Spotify has posted a vacancy for the deputy director of payments strategy and innovation with experience in blockchain and digital assets. This is evidenced by information on Lever's site.

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ForkLog 9 04.12.2020

Why blockchain voting won’t solve the trust problem in election results

Office work and public services are moving to digital formats, but governments are not rushing to implement online voting. Reasons include technical problems, a never-ending string of failed experiments, and public distrust. The obvious way out of this impasse is blockchain technology — after all, it was designed to solve the problem of trust. ForkLog investigates whether this is feasible in practice.

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ForkLog 33 03.12.2020

Kaspersky Lab develops blockchain-based voting system for the state

Kaspersky Lab specialists presented a system for remote electronic voting based on Russian cryptographic algorithms. This was announced by Polys project head Alexander Sazonov during a corporate online conference.

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