Bank of Japan testing blockchain settlement for bank deposits in new sandbox

Japan’s central bank says a sandbox is underway to examine settlement using current account deposits, while warning of smart ...
LEADERSHIP Newspaper

Central Bank Tightens Liquidity, Withdraws N15trn From Financial System In January

Nigeria’s money market closed the month under sustained liquidity pressure, despite a modest improvement in system balances, as the Central Bank of Nigeria’s aggressive monetary tightening continued ...
Mint

High-level committee on banking: What it should focus on to strengthen India’s financial system

Banks are seeing a steady shift in deposits to alternate asset classes, with incremental deposit growth in a struggle to keep up with incremental credit.(istockphoto) Finance minister Nirmala ...
The Australian Financial Review

Bumper CBA profit and Macquarie growth points to two-tier bank system

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn says fast-growing rival Macquarie is being advantaged by looser regulations, even as the country’s largest lender wrote a record number of loans and beat ...
Finextra

Core banking systems

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced that Bank of Beirut UK Ltd, has successfully gone live with Temenos Core Banking and Payments. ConnectPay, one of ...
The Advocate

Bank of Zachary CEO elected to federal bank board

Bank of Zachary announced that Mark S. Marionneaux, president and chief executive officer, has been elected to serve as the member director representing Louisiana on the Federal Home Loan Bank of ...