Global financial services company JP Morgan is planning to pilot its own cryptocurrency by the end of the year.
In February of this year, JP Morgan announced that it created and successfully tested a stablecoin, called JPM Coin, that enables instantaneous transfer of payments between institutional clients.
Smartrac, a digital services firm backed by JP Morgan, has partnered with blockchain startup SUKU Ecosystem to integrate SUKU’s supply chain platform.
Smartrac develops, manufactures, and supplies radio frequency identification (RFID) and NFC transponders and inlays primarily in Europe,
JP Morgan topped the rankings in the latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table of the top 10 financial advisers for the financial services industry for Q3 2018, compiled by leading data analytics company GlobalData.
JP Morgan secured the top spot based on its total advised deal value of $28.6bn,
Global financial services company JP Morgan has announced that its blockchain-based Interbank Information Network (IIN) now has over 100 member banks.
Launched as a pilot in 2017, IIN minimizes friction in the global payments process, enabling payments to reach beneficiaries faster and with fewer steps.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the central bank of the country, has released the results of Project Khoka, a proof of concept (PoC) for interbank transfers using Quorum, JP Morgan‘s private, ethereum-based platform.
First announced in February of this year,
JP Morgan Chase has named Oli Harris as head of its cryptocurrency strategy and Quorum. The appointment was announced by Umar Farooq, the financial firm’s head of blockchain initiatives. Quorum is an enterprise blockchain platform that’s open source.
Harris has been with JP Morgan since January 2014.
Spanish banking giant Banco Santander and FinTech firm Broadridge have completed a test run of a blockchain solution for investor voting at the bank’s annual general meeting (AGM).
The pilot was conducted on March 23, with participation from Banco Santander Corporate Services as the issuer’s agent and Santander’s blockchain lab.
Amber Baldet, former head of JP Morgan’s blockchain arm, has announced a new blockchain company that seeks to provide a hybrid environment for sharing and playing around with enterprise-grade application, development tools and datasets.
Baldet, who announced her departure from JP Morgan last month,
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has released its Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack (EEAS), which standardizes the specifications for ethereum-based business applications for the Web 3.0 era.
Formed in February 2017 by JP Morgan, Santander, and a number of other founders,
Amber Baldet, JP Morgan Chase’s best-known blockchain executive, is leaving the bank to start a business of her own.
Baldet began consulting for JP Morgan in 2009 and took a permanent position with the bank in 2011. Baldet has been the head of JPMorgan’s Blockchain Center of Excellence,
