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The chief executive of Barclays, Ashok Vaswani, said that the bank has been in discussions with Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog about the possibility of adopting Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.

To safeguard itself against Israel interference, Palestine Monetary Authority consider creation of local digital currency within 5 years.

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has published a report on the distributed ledger technologies applied to securities market.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, has just published a report on the “Implications of Blockchain for the Securities Industry”, with a recommendation for distributed ledger market participants and regulators to collaborate in addressing any potential regulatory gaps in the way of Blockchain technology adoption.

R3, financial innovation firm, has announced its partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch its first dedicated distributed ledger technology Center of Excellence in Asia.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has recently published a “Proposed Activity-based Payments Framework and Establishment of a National Payments Council” paper, with recommendations to review the existing payments regulation in Singapore.

IBM announced its plans to work in collaboration with the government of Singapore to establish the first IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation.

The co-founder of Skype, Jaan Tallinn, believes that Blockchain technology can save humanity by solving society’s biggest problems.

Sweden is testing the possibilities to use Blockchain technology for real estate registry.