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Slovenia Launches First Digital Bond in EU Sovereign History

DIGIT — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:30:09 +0000

On July 25, 2024, Slovenia issued its first digital bond, marking a significant milestone as the first EU sovereign and one of the earliest worldwide to do so. The bond issuance occurred under the European Central Bank’s (ECB) wholesale central bank money settlement experimentation program. The settlement was executed on-chain in wholesale central bank digital […]

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Slovenia launches EU’s first digital sovereign bond via BNP Paribas

DIGIT — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:57:57 +0000

The bond was issued as part of ECB wholesale settlements experiments and matures on Nov. 25.

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French Authorities Raid 5 Major Banks Over Accusations of Money Laundering and Fiscal Fraud

DIGIT — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:00:23 +0000

On Tuesday, French officials conducted raids on five major banks located in and around Paris, including Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Natixis, and BNP’s Exane Bank, over alleged charges of money laundering and fiscal fraud. According to a spokesperson for France’s Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), the preliminary investigation into four French banks and one international […]

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Report: Fed’s Secret Repo Loans to Megabanks in 2020 Eclipsed 2008 Bailouts, Data Dump Shows $48 Trillion in Stealth Funding

DIGIT — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:30:28 +0000

Following the controversial bank bailouts and Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008, reports show in late 2019 and 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve participated in providing trillions of dollars in secret repo loans to megabanks. At the end of March, investigative journalists, Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade, uncovered $3.84 trillion […]

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French central bank pilots blockchain-based CBDC for debt market

DIGIT — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:57:03 +0000

Led by Belgian financial services firm Euroclear, the latest French CBDC trial involved a system by tech giant IBM.

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Financial Analysts Expect US Dollar to Soften Further, 2021 Could Be the Greenback’s ‘Worst Year Ever’

DIGIT — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:45:52 +0000

Well before the coronavirus pandemic, global economists expected a grim-looking American economy and during the last ten months of the Covid-19 outbreak, the U.S. financial system looks even worse. Economists and analysts say the biggest concern is the U.S. dollar faltering into the unknown, as a great number of distinguished individuals believe the USD will […]

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BNP Paribas and Curv unveil highly secure method to transfer security tokens

DIGIT — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 03:53:56 +0000

A Proof of Concept security token transfer involving BNP Paribas and Curv could lead to integrated crypto custody solutions.

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BNP Paribas connects to major stock exchanges with DAML smart contracts

DIGIT — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:15:48 +0000

The DAML smart contract language is getting more popular.

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World’s Largest Banks Losing Stock Value During Weeks Marked by Pandemic

DIGIT — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:30:49 +0000

The spreading coronavirus infection is taking a toll on the global economy and traditional financial institutions are already hurting. The world’s largest banks have seen their stocks losing value over the past weeks and months while facing cash withdrawal pressure and preparing to deal with a shrinking asset base. Also read: US Cash Crisis: Withdrawal […]

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BitMEX Operator HDR Global Hires Former BNP Paribas Exec

DIGIT — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:47:00 +0000

BitMEX parent firm HDR Global hires former BNP Paribas’ General Counsel Derek Gobel as the group’s new general counsel

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