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Programmable Payments integrated with Current Accounts
A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network. A Future of Finance interview with Quant Networks’ Chief Product Officer Martin Hargreaves. Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contributing Editor at Future of Finance, Hargreaves describes how this model can imp
Jun 23, 2025


Quant launches open-source programming language for money
Quant, a global leader in fintech and innovation, today announces the rollout of Quant Flow, an industry-first programmable money and banking infrastructure now available via a white-label solution to banks, institutions and corporates across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. Quant Flow was developed in response to the growing demand for smarter forms of commercial bank money and the need to modernise financial infrastructure, driven by rising regulatory pressure and compet
Jun 18, 2025


Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN
“Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN.” Jana Mackintosh Managing Director, Payment Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance We’re proud to announce that – together with R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology and services firm – we have been selected to produce the technology prototype for the experimentation phase of the UK’s Regulated Liability Network , led by UK Finance and supported by EY. The UK RL
Apr 17, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – Are the commercial opportunities in digital assets compelling enough to overcome the fear of disruption?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant. Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Apr 16, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – How can blockchain-based token networks achieve full inter-operability?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Apr 8, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can be done now to overcome the absence of digital money on blockchain networks?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant. Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Apr 3, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can governments do to encourage the growth of digital asset markets?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Mar 28, 2024


Quant’s work on the digital pound
“We proved that APIs could play a key role in enabling CBDC systems to deliver a range of benefits in terms of payments functionality and security.” Andrew Carrier Chief Marketing Officer Directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre (BIS), Project Rosalind was an experiment that explored the development of a retail central bank digital currency. It tested how application programming interfaces (APIs) could facilitate retail payments in CBDCs and support in the exploratio
Feb 21, 2024


Quant launches central bank-grade key management solutions for blockchain transactions
Quant launched a ground breaking solution today that makes blockchain-based transactions more secure for banks and other institutions. Financial institutions have implemented mature key management solutions to secure data, business applications, and transactions. With the introduction of blockchain and digital assets, existing key management technology cannot be used to provide the same level of protection and compliance mandated by regulation and security. To work around th
Oct 12, 2023


Achieving asset portability with confidence. A paper from Quant
The world of finance is going through a transformation with the introduction of tokenisation, which is expected to revolutionise the financial sector and encourage the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. However, one of the major challenges in realising the benefits of tokenisation is interoperability. Read the Quant point of view the paper focuses on the importance of asset portability, discusses the obstacles involved in achieving interoperability between differ
Oct 4, 2023


Quant launches Overledger Platform
Quant unveils The Overledger Platform , making the same enterprise-grade technology that has underpinned Quant’s projects with...
Jun 28, 2023


Quant collaborates with BIS and the Bank of England on Project Rosalind
Quant announces its role as part of the vendor team for Project Rosalind. The project, led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England, explored how application programming interfaces could be used for central bank digital currency systems. Project Rosalind , directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, has been testing how APIs could facilitate retail payments in CBDCs and support the exploration of innovative CBDC use cases. The project looked spe
Jun 21, 2023


Stablecoins are not the destination but a stepping stone on the journey towards programmable money
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant It is easy to fall into the trap of treating monetary innovations such...
May 24, 2023


Quant and the Bank of England share CBDC vision
During a panel session at the Financial Times Digital Assets Summit last week, the Bank of England’s director for central bank digital currency, Tom Mutton, and Quant’s CEO Gilbert Verdian shared their views on a digital pound and tackled questions from the audience about personal data privacy and interoperability. Watch more here: https://quant.network/events/bank-of-england-and-quant-share-cbdc-vision/ Objectives and current status Tom Mutton, the Bank of England’s director
May 19, 2023
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