PANews reported on July 14 that according to Bloomberg, Lloyds Banking Group Plc and fund management company Aberdeen Investments have reached a cooperation with the crypto exchange Archax to allow the use of digital assets to provide collateral for foreign exchange contracts, thereby reducing the costs of the trading department.
According to a statement released on Monday, the partnership enables Aberdeen Investments and Lloyds Bank to conduct foreign exchange transactions using blockchain technology, which allows real-world assets to be tokenized and used as collateral. Under the plan, digital tokens backed by UK government bonds and Aberdeen Investments money market fund shares have been issued, transferred and held by Archax in the UK.



US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday during Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom. The United States and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to jointly develop artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, telecommunications and quantum computing for a wide range of uses including space travel, military defense, targeted biomedical drugs and medical procedures.The MOU, which is not legally binding and changes no existing agreements between the two countries, proposes joint research initiatives between a host of government departments and agencies in both countries to study these emerging technologies.The two countries will form a task group to develop quantum computing hardware, software, algorithms and interoperability standards, according to the MOU.Read more