News & Views

Fnality commences initial phase of Sterling payment operations in a world-first for both wholesale finance and digital asset markets

14-Dec-2023 12:00:00 / by Fnality Press Office posted in Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, digital assets, blockchainadoption, dFMI, central banks, FnPS, DvP

DLT-based Sterling Fnality Payment System (£FnPS) sees first live transactions utilising a digital representation of funds at central bank. Initial participants are Lloyds Banking Group, Banco Santander, and UBS.

Fnality International raises £77.7m in Series B funding round

14-Nov-2023 10:32:15 / by Fnality Press Office posted in Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, digital assets, blockchainadoption, dFMI, central banks, FnPS, DvP

Latest funding round follows Series A of £55m in June 2019
Lead investors include Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas

Fnality celebrates completion of a landmark DvP proof of concept

09-Feb-2022 09:00:00 / by Fnality Press Office posted in Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, digital assets, blockchainadoption, dFMI, central banks, FnPS, DvP

UK FinTechs Fnality, Nivaura and Adhara collaborate with NatWest and Santander to execute first cross-chain pilot debt transaction on public Ethereum and Fnality Payment System

On the UK House of Lords Economic Committee meeting on CBDC

08-Dec-2021 08:46:46 / by Jake Hartley posted in Fnality, Views, payments, Legal, CBDC, DLT, central banks, Governance, BIS, cross-border

At Fnality, we are often asked questions along the lines of 'How would new forms of digital money alter your value proposition?’ or 'Where does Fnality 'fit' in a future world with CBDC?'

Key Takeaways from HQLAx Conference: Transforming the Securities Finance Industry via Distributed Ledger Technology

25-Nov-2021 11:30:00 / by Simone Cortese posted in Fnality, Views, digital assets, dFMI, interoperability, Legal, DLT, central banks, Governance, cross-border, cash on ledger

Fnality's Product Manager, Simone Cortese, discussed the future of DLT ecosystems and why interoperability holds the key to success at the HQLAx Conference on Transforming the Securities Finance Industry via Distributed Ledger Technology. He highlights his key takeaways and insights in this blog post.

Fixing cross-border payments: the essential steps

19-Nov-2021 12:52:21 / by Daniel Heller - Regulatory Affairs Advisor posted in Fnality, Views, payments, Legal, CBDC, DLT, central banks, Governance, BIS, cross-border

Improving cross-border payments has become a top agenda item of global policy makers. The G20 has made “enhancing cross-border payments” a priority in 2019, and it continues to be a priority for 2021 under the Italian G20 presidency. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has launched an extensive roadmap last year, as well: “Faster, cheaper, more transparent and more inclusive cross-border payment services, including remittances, while maintaining their safety and security, would have widespread benefits for citizens and economies worldwide”. In fact, this October the FSB published measurable targets for addressing four key challenges in cross-border payments: cost, speed, access and...

Fnality Global Payments & Multi-CBDC

12-May-2021 10:30:00 / by Jake Hartley posted in Fnality, Views, Legal, CBDC, DLT, central banks, Governance, BIS

As part of our Fnality Global Payments Insights series, Fnality recently published a paper – Fnality Global Payments & Wholesale CBDC – that explores the proliferation and development of CBDC projects. It examines the pressing issues in wholesale financial markets that have prompted such innovation, and how, in the current absence of viable wholesale CBDC or DLT-based RTGS renewal programmes, Fnality Global Payments can offer novel solutions to the problems these arrangements seek to solve.