SIA, a European payment services business, and U.K.-based technology company Quant Network has successfully tested cross-blockchain interoperability between different protocols. On June 5, SIA and Quant Network first announced their partnership to work on cross-platform applications and services for banks and financial institutions. .@quant_network and SIA successfully tested #blockchain #interoperability. Breakthrough achieved by integrating Quant Network’s #Overledger techn

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will be expanding to the United Kingdom with a regulated crypto trading platform for both institutional and retail investors. Binance aims to tap the institutional investment market and meet the rising demand for digital asset investments in this sphere. On June 17 Reuters reported that Binance is reportedly reviewing the 65 digital assets that it plans to list on the exchange at launch. #Binance Announces FCA-Regulated Trading Platform for the

The United Kingdom’s Open University develops a COVID-19 proof-of-immunity app combining blockchain with a privacy-preserving data solution from web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. As of April 29, the prototype app is currently undergoing testing that would support the proof and verification of tamper-resistant test results for COVID-19 antigen tests and vaccination coverage. This could be a significant step. @OpenUniversity develops digital certificate for Covid-19 immunity https:

EPayments Systems Ltd, a United Kingdom-authorized electronic money institution, must suspend online payment operations due to the Financial Conduct Authority’s anti-money-laundering (AML) procedures. EPayments has released a short statement on its website and has sent out emails to its customers to give a few details on the FCA’s regulatory checks. The regulation has frozen ePayments one million user accounts and has banned new account openings: “Following discussions with

The Bank of England (BoE) has finalized a set of principles that the Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency project must adopt before going live in the UK. By calling the payment network a potentially “systemically important payment system,” the BoE’s Financial Policy Committee released the October Financial Policy and Summary report this week. The committee says in the policy summary: “The FPC judges that such a system would need to meet the highest standards of resilience and be