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

  • 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

  • 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

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

Interview with Blockworks DAS:LONDON 2021

The importance of Fnality’s Universal Payment Leg

Digitisation and new technologies, like DLT and blockchain, are rapidly innovating the wholesale financial market industry.

Every day a new type of asset becomes ‘tokenised’ (i.e., represented digitally on a distributed ledger), from financial products (e.g., repurchase agreements, fixed income, equities) to any sort of tradable assets (e.g., real estate, IP royaltiesforests!) shaping the future tokenised financial markets and potentially creating novel business cases whose magnitude is still hard to define.

At the same time, execution of transactions in existing markets, such as equities, fixed income, FX and derivatives have seen incredible digital automation.

However, post-trade...

The Importance of Nodes in the Fnality Payment System

Traditionally, the functions of financial market infrastructure (which includes payment systems) have been centrally administered and operated by a single entity. There is a growing movement within the wholesale financial market towards decentralisation in order to reduce reliance on centralised intermediaries and “unlock billions in capital and liquidity. Decentralisation is at the core of our design principles at Fnality. Both the technology underpinning the Fnality Payment System (‘FnPS’) and our organisational design are based on the concept of decentralisation. There will be no ‘single point of failure’ should a server go down or ‘single point of attack’ from malicious actors...

Fnality recognises a major market milestone

Bank of England publishes an omnibus accounts policy to enable innovative payment systems

Fnality continues to strengthen its partnership with Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Fnality: Enhancing Cross-Border Payments

Payment Systems and the Role of Central Banks

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