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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell:Albertsons (ACI)– Albertsons lost 4.1% in the premarket after announcing a merger deal with supermarket rival Kroger (KR). Albertsons surged 11.5% Thursday after sources told CNBC the two sides were in talks to combine. Kroger shares slipped 3%.

Citigroup is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday.

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Tom Zschach, chief innovation officer at Swift says that the success showed that the blockchain networks could be interlinked for cross-border payments through a single gateway, and that Swift’s new transaction management capabilities could orchestrate all inter-network communication.“For CBDCs, our solution will enable central banks to connect their own networks simply and directly to all the other payments systems in the world through a single gateway, ensuring the instant and smooth flow of cross-border payments," he says.14 central and commercial banks, including Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, NatWest, SMBC, Standard Chartered, UBS and Wells Fargo, are now collaborating in a testing environment to accelerate the path to full scale deployment.As reported by Finextra yesterday, a seperate Swift-led pilot has also successfully implemented a common framework linking tokenisation systems between CSD’s and global custodians. Working in collaboration with Citi, Clearstream, Northern Trust, and technology partner SETL, Swift explored 70 scenarios simulating market issuance and secondary market transfers of tokenised bonds, equities and cash.

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On Wednesday, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, announced that it has successfully moved central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized assets on existing financial infrastructure through two separate experiments. According to SWIFT, the results demonstrated that "CBDCs can be rapidly deployed at scale to facilitate trade and investment between more than 200 countries and territories around the world."

Tom Zschach, chief innovation officer at Swift says that the success showed that the blockchain networks could be interlinked for cross-border payments through a single gateway, and that Swift’s new transaction management capabilities could orchestrate all inter-network communication.“For CBDCs, our solution will enable central banks to connect their own networks simply and directly to all the other payments systems in the world through a single gateway, ensuring the instant and smooth flow of cross-border payments," he says.14 central and commercial banks, including Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, NatWest, SMBC, Standard Chartered, UBS and Wells Fargo, are now collaborating in a testing environment to accelerate the path to full scale deployment.As reported by Finextra yesterday, a seperate Swift-led pilot has also successfully implemented a common framework linking tokenisation systems between CSD’s and global custodians. Working in collaboration with Citi, Clearstream, Northern Trust, and technology partner SETL, Swift explored 70 scenarios simulating market issuance and secondary market transfers of tokenised bonds, equities and cash.

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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

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Jamie Dimon, the man at the helm of United States’ largest bank J.P Morgan Chase, made some rather controversial statements at 21 September’s congressional hearing called “Holding Megabanks Accountable: Oversight of America’s Largest Consumer Facing Banks.”

Wells Fargo has hired a trio of senior dealmakers to bolster its M&A team in Europe and Asia.

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WASHINGTON—The heads of seven of the largest U.S. banks are set to face questions from Congress on hot-button issues including money-transfer scams, the state of the U.S. economy and a credit- and debit-card code that identifies when purchases are made at firearms stores.  

Banks' cryptocurrency projects have been upended by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accounting guidance that would make it too capital-intensive for lenders to hold crypto tokens on behalf of clients, according to more than half a dozen people with knowledge of the matter.  

The Golden State of California may be America's most inquisitive state about Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), new data from CoinGecko has revealed. 

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