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A New Stablecoin Created By America's Largest Bank, As They Launch New Division Dedicated To Blockchain & Crypto...

 

JPMorgan Launches Onyx and JPMCoin

JP Morgan, the largest bank in the United States, is beginning to put its cryptocurrency 'JPM Coin' to use.  While announced in 2019, we hadn't heard much about it until now, as JPMorgan makes two big announcements.

JPM Coin is a stablecoin pegged to the USD,

Their blockchain focused 'Onyx' division...

Already with more than 100 employees, Onyx aims to usher in an era in where banks embrace blockchain solutions for faster international payments and increased profitably. It will offer blockchain-based project acceleration services, connect infrastructures based blockchain tech technology, and say more services will be announced soon.

"We are launching Onyx because we believe that we are moving into a commercialization period for those technologies, moving from research and development to something that can become a real business." Said Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan's global head of payments.

JPM Coin is now live...

Georgakopoulos also shared that one of its large tech clients sent its first international payment using JPMCoin this week, but did not disclose the name of the company.

JPMorgan moves an average of $6 trillion per day between over 100 countries. 

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Author: Ryan Kalbari
Toronto Newsdesk



JPMorgan Chase former VP admits - "Blockchain may be the key to avoiding the next global financial crisis"...

Pang Huadong is the former vice president of North American investment banking at JPMorgan Chase, and is currently serving as an academic adviser of the Asian Blockchain Institute.  His time at JPMorgan included the worst of the most recent crisis in 2008.

Speaking to the China Econmic Times, he says:

"In June 2007, after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), I worked in JP Morgan Chase's Fixed Income Self-Management Department. At that time, 13 people managed JP Morgan's more than $40 billion. When the 2008 financial crisis was the worst. The average daily loss is 300 million US dollars. It is only gradually understood that blockchain technology may be the key to avoiding the next world-class financial crisis."

To understand why blockchain could have prevented the crisis, you must first understand what caused the crisis - a system of repackaging and reselling subprime loans often so many times firms could no longer keep track of which loans they were still responsible for.

Blockchain's public ledger feature also acts as a 'chain of custody' record - the ability for a bank to 'lose track' of assets immediately disappears.

Some believe this is why it's so rare to hear someone from the world of banking praising blockchain - once implemented, their ability to cheat the system or simply 'play dumb' when things go wrong becomes greatly diminished.
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Author: Adam Lee 
Asia News Desk

Head of JP Morgan Chase's Blockchain project leaves the company...


Amber Baldet, blockchain program lead at JPMorgan Chase is leaving the banking firm to start her own venture.

“Amber is extremely talented and helped build the outstanding team we have today. We respect her desire to start her own venture and we wish her nothing but the best.” the company stated in a memo.

Baldet's name came up often in the cryptocurrency world while there was a strange contrast of JP Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon continually bashing Bitcoin, followed by news from Baldet and her project showing the bank quite interested in it's underlying blockchain technology.

The company's senior product manager Christine Moy will step up to replace to Baldet.

No details yet on what Amber Baldet's new venture will be.
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Author: Oliver Redding
Seattle News Desk