Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 January 2018
Stars Saifu, Thales, Babb, Iznes, SETL and Sberbank’s new lab.
Stars Saifu, Thales, Babb, Iznes, SETL and Sberbank’s new lab.
Features BNP Paribas Asset Management, Falcon Private Bank and the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange.
Its inventors received a record number of patents in 2017 – marking its 25th consecutive year of US leadership.
Features Cardano Foundation, IOHK, Emurgo, Bitcoin mining, Microsoft and John McAfee.
Features IBM, Comcast, MState, Early Salary, Previse and Dinghy.
Buyripple explains “how banks fell in love with Ripple” in this infographic.
Get used to the idea of Microsoft embracing open source.
The catastrophic catalogue of conjectures.
From cashless countries to Bitcoin crashes.
They thought for you.
Enjoy some of the major payments projects in 2017.
What a merry time it was for fintech features in 2017.
Bitcoin was buzzing all year along.
Welcome to a world of blockchain. A compilation of the bigger stories with Banking Technology’s top ten.
2017 has been another eventful year for the payments industry. From celebrities like 50 Cent getting involved (more on this later) to businesses neglecting the needs of pretty much every generation bar millennials, there hasn’t been a dull moment.
More bite-size Bitcoin and blockchain news.
Ripple is taking “the next logical step to help build the internet of value”.
eToro and CoinDash will develop a suite of blockchain-based products for social trading.
Features ABI Lab, R3, the government of Estonia, Chronobank and Bitcoin.com.
The recent surge in its price is good news for investors, but perhaps a death sentence for its functional value.
2017 ends with the Bitcoin having surpassed the $19,000 mark. Could this perhaps be a taste of our future?
Smart contracts platform Symbiont has teamed up with Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP).
In the eye of the storm we provide clarity.
IBM has unveiled its Bot Asset Exchange – a place for chatbot development.
Featuring the Gibraltar Parliament; Cboe Global Markets; and Waves Platform, Ethereum and Deloitte teaming up.
The latest features IOTA, Microsoft, Indonesia’s central bank and Australian Securities Exchange.
The recent World Economic Forum (WED) report “Sweden could stop using cash by 2023”, says that the country is moving towards favouring cards and mobile payment apps. Yet retailers are expected to accept cash for at least a couple of years afterwards.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up – features a nasty hack on NiceHash; Pundi X in Indonesia; a Deluge Network for ICOs; and Blockchain Centre Vilnius in Lithuania.
Our latest blockchain and Bitcoin round-up features R3’s Corda and AWS; gambling with McDonalds; XinFin in Singapore; and Cardano Foundation and Z/Yen Group teaming up.
Calastone has revealed its funds transaction network will be migrated onto a full blockchain-enabled infrastructure in 2019.
Who doesn’t love a trilogy? Following on from the round-ups on Thursday (30 November) and Tuesday (28 November) here’s another slice of fintech funding action. Features Deposit Solutions, Hanson Robotics’ Sophia, and BNP Paribas Asset Management. Germany’s Deposit Solutions, an open banking platform for deposits, has closed an investment round of $20 million led by […]
Coming straight after yesterday’s (29 November) fun and games, here’s another quick summary of the blockchain and Bitcoin action. Features the European Central Bank, Tieto, Coinsilium Group and StartupToken. Well, Bitcoin went past $11,000. And then dropped. As you read this it will have changed again. So, opinions are aplenty. And… banks should speed up […]
Bitcoin high, Russian firsts, trade finance digitisation, US moves, and an interoperability alliance. Another day of action in the busy blockchain and Bitcoin world. Features Sberbank, IBM, Infosys Finacle, BitFlyer and the Blockchain Interoperability Alliance. Doubt you missed it, but Bitcoin has reached an all time high of $10,000. We were inundated with similar comments […]
AlphaPoint has announced plans to build a new public blockchain network that will enable users to digitise real-world assets and monetise them across new markets, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company). The network, dubbed the AlphaPoint Public Network (APN), will be the first public blockchain built based on Intel SGX technology. AlphaPoint will fund […]
This nifty infographic by PWC looks at the blockchain tech, how it works, its benefits and unknowns, cryptocurrency and potential applications.
That Friday feeling isn’t complete without another round of the latest blockchain and Bitcoin news! Following on from yesterday (23 November) our latest covers Globitex, Billion and Bitcoin Gold.
Following on from the action on Tuesday (21 November), our latest blockchain and Bitcoin round-up focuses on partnerships and future potential. Featuring BDA, Bitstamp, ModulTrade and Bank of Japan.
ING Wholesale Banking has set out its plans to increase investments in data analytics and put more resources into Asia and the Americas. It’s very early days as its ambitions and goals offer no real specifics. Stats and timelines are like good service in shops in the UK – i.e. almost nowhere to be seen. […]
From major crimes to KYC times. Our latest blockchain and Bitcoin round-up features Tether, Metal, Deutsche Bank and IBM. Digital currency firm Tether is feeling under the weather as it has reported that “funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet through malicious action by an external attacker”. The amount is a rather large […]
One of the more entertaining aspects of this year’s Sibos in Toronto was the continuation of the rivalry between the event’s host, Swift, and distributed ledger technology (DLT) firm Ripple.