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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant and R3 selected as technology providers for the UK’s Regulated Liability Network
[APRIL 2024] “Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN.” Jana MackintoshManaging Director, Payment Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance We’re proud to announce that – together with R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology and services firm – we have been selected to produce the technology prototype for the…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant’s work on the digital pound
[FEBRUARY 2024] “We proved that APIs could play a key role in enabling CBDC systems to deliver a range of benefits in terms of payments functionality and security.” Andrew CarrierChief Marketing Officer Directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre (BIS), Project Rosalind was an experiment that explored the development of a retail central bank…
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Women in Digital Asset Forum 2023 London
[OCT 2023] We are on a path of an evolution in financial services and perhaps our lives as we engage in the next era of digital assets. While the pandemic added a new sense of urgency to already expedited waves of digital innovation, public and private entities across the globe are accelerating their research and…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches central bank-grade key management solutions for blockchain transactions
[OCT 2023] Quant launched a ground breaking solution today that makes blockchain-based transactions more secure for banks and other institutions. Financial institutions have implemented mature key management solutions to secure data, business applications, and transactions. With the introduction of blockchain and digital assets, existing key management technology cannot be used to provide the same level…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Achieving asset portability with confidence a Paper from Quant
[OCT 2023] The world of finance is going through a transformation with the introduction of tokenisation, which is expected to revolutionise the financial sector and encourage the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. However, one of the major challenges in realising the benefits of tokenisation is interoperability. Read the Quant point of view the paper focuses…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: R3 doubles down on interoperability, high availability, and scalability reinforced by the next generation of Corda
[JUL 2023] LONDON/NEW YORK:R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, today announced the next generation of its flagship platform Corda at its hosted event in New York. The updated version has been designed for global financial market infrastructure providers and central banks to enable applications to interoperate seamlessly and securely across other open enterprise DLT networks.R3,…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Introducing Harmonia, a Hyperledger Lab: Unlocking Interoperability for Regulated Financial Networks
[JUL 2023] Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has gained significant traction in recent years in the financial sector, where its promise of data consistency, security, and shared business logic is the key to resolving long-standing market-level inefficiencies. However, as the adoption of blockchain networks continues to expand, a pressing challenge has emerged: the ability for these…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches Overledger Platform
[JUN 2023] Quant unveils The Overledger Platform, making the same enterprise-grade technology that has underpinned Quant’s projects with institutional and central bank customers to-date, accessible to large enterprises, SMEs and developers for the first time. The Overledger Platform: the infrastructure used in Project Rosalind – the Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements’ retail CBDC project –…
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FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUCEMENT: Quant collaborates with BIS and the Bank of England on Project Rosalind
[JUN 2023] Quant announces its role as part of the vendor team for Project Rosalind. The project, led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England, explored how application programming interfaces could be used for central bank digital currency systems. Project Rosalind, directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, has been…
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Quant and the Bank of England share CBDC vision
[MAY 2023] During a panel session at the Financial Times Digital Assets Summit last week, the Bank of England’s director for central bank digital currency, Tom Mutton, and Quant’s CEO Gilbert Verdian shared their views on a digital pound and tackled questions from the audience about personal data privacy and interoperability. Watch more here: https://quant.network/events/bank-of-england-and-quant-share-cbdc-vision/ Objectives…
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First digital bond approved for SNB General Collateral Basket
[FEB 2023] At the beginning of 2023, the city of Lugano issued their first digital native bond on SIX Digital Exchange (ISIN: CH1232107172) with Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) as sole lead manager. Following this issuance and based on the double listing on SDX Trading AG and SIX Swiss Exchange, the bond has become the first digital…
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The merits of self-serve and hybrid advice and how it could increase adviser revenues by 225%.
In this article, Wealth Wizards’ Simon Binney discusses the merits of self-serve and hybrid advice and how it could increase adviser revenues by 225%. The next few years will see exponential use of self-serve and hybrid advice as the financial services industry takes advantage of developments in technology and consumers feel increasingly comfortable using digital…
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Are you considering a hybrid advice model for your business? Wealth Wizards’ Simon Binney provides a valuable insight into how advisers and wealth managers are using digital-first and automation platforms to grow and future-proof their firms. What is hybrid advice? In a nutshell, the hybrid advice model helps firms automate processes and digitise the advice…
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