IBM and CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, announced on Monday (July 30) a collaboration on a...
Multicoin Capital, a U.S.-based asset management firm focused on cryptocurrencies, raised money in a round of funding that included a bunch of...
Due to a vulnerability in Telegram’s messaging app, hackers have been able to rack up cryptocurrencies such as ZCash, as stated by...
The world of exchange-traded funds is seeing an influx of capital from investors focused on blockchain. As reported by CNBC, $240 million...
Where there is a will — and some digital currency — it seems there is a way. Or at least, that is...
Bitcoin may be garnering a lot of interest from all sorts of investors, but it’s losing its luster for criminals, as they...
$150 million is a lot of money – especially when it’s lost. Take the case of the missing Ethereum. As TechCrunch noted...
In protest of what Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called a financial “blockade” by the United States and the Trump administration, the government...
The SEC is growing increasingly wary of initial coin offerings — and sounding increasingly likely to step up regulatory action in and...
Over the summer, a small tech startup named Tezos managed to bring in $232 million online in a wildly successful “initial coin...
Between hurricanes, wildfires and the political uncertainty everywhere, the world has looked a little bleak lately. However, we have not come to...
The results are in for an early proof-of-concept test at Swift with six of the cooperative’s member banks. By all indications, it...
Digital currency is serious business, according to the IMF — and it is time for the world’s banks and banking regulators to...
Seven big European banks have selected IBM to build their blockchain-based platform with a goal of making trade finance transactions simpler and...
Goldman Sachs and Baidu-backed blockchain startup Circle have launched an international online money transfer service. The new offering will allow American and European...
With President Trump’s claim of voter fraud on a massive scale in the 2016 presidential election, it may be time for the country to...
The blockchain has a problem — it is really, really backlogged. As bitcoin has gotten more popular, the number of people trying...
Setting and sticking to a budget can be difficult for anyone — and it’s even more so for the government. Given the...
Bitcoin, it seems, is out — the cool digital currency taking the world by storm now is Zcash, a product designed by academics...
Across the world, business accelerators have been popping up. In the U.S. alone, the number of accelerators grew from 16 programs to...
Blockchain technology has been finding its way into new industries. Thanks to this new technology, paper ledgers and trails could soon be...
The investment that got away. The uncle who should have bought into Microsoft in the early 80s, the cousin who could have...
Only in the tech space do we see an unending list of prize challenges hoping to prove that bettering the future can...
Each week it seems blockchain just gets another endorsement. This week? Richard Branson. The billionaire and Virgin Group founder said blockchain will...
JP Morgan Chase is working on a new way to leverage the blockchain technology that supports bitcoin and allow the bank to design a...
Could 2016 be “The Year of the Blockchain?” Some research says it could indeed be. IBM said, by this time next year,...
Standard Chartered announced on Wednesday (Sept. 28) the completion of the first real-time cross-border payment for businesses with another major correspondent bank....
Could be the beginning of a riddle: Why did a new caucus and an incubator show up on Capitol Hill? Trick question,...
On Capitol Hill, it appears that blockchain — and digital currency itself — has arrived. American Banker reported on Monday (Sept. 26) that...
Ripple, the provider of financial settlement solutions, announced on Friday (Sept. 23) a number of global banks joining forces to create the...
IBM and UnionPay are collaborating on a way to use the blockchain for trading loyalty points. In a proof-of-concept reveal, the two...
BNP Paribas Securities Services is looking at letting companies issue mini-bonds on its blockchain technology platform. According to a press release, the...
Startups specializing in blockchain may have their eye on disrupting the $15 billion music industry. According to Forbes, the music industry stands...
To be the first to do anything is always a coup. You want first pick in your fantasy football league. Who doesn’t...
The U.S. government is showing support for digital currencies and seeing potential advantages to its use. A nonbinding resolution passed on Monday...
Banks are seeking ways to cut costs and make up for the persisting low interest rates. Blockchain is one item under discussion,...
Blockchain technology may have been the underpinning for bitcoin, but it’s not stopping there, with a slew of financial companies eyeing blockchain...
Apple and Google haven’t shown much interest in blockchain technology, but that appears to be changing, with increasing interest in Ripple and the distributed ledger...
The blockchain — the underlying technology that powers the digital currency bitcoin — may be nearing its mainstream moment in the sun as four...
Telecommunications provider Verizon Communications has been experimenting with blockchain technology, which is what powers bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to Business Insider, which...
While the FinTech industry is exploring the potential of blockchain technology, some are taking another path and exploring how another distributed ledger,...
Blockchain has been making inroads into finance — specifically, trade finance — through a series of agreements struck this week that show...
Thomson Reuters is joining a consortium that includes some of the largest financial institutions around the world working to determine how to...
Ethereum, the alternative digital currency that was the victim of a hack last month that caused close to $60 million of investors’...
The blockchain has another link, this time in the legal world. CoinDesk reported on Wednesday (July 20) that law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP...
There’s another digital currency in town, and its name is YoCoin. The question is: Can YoCoin give bitcoin a run for its...
A group of U.K. banks may have just hit a cross-border blockchain payment milestone. This group, which includes Santander, CIBC and UniCredit, announced...
Remember Craig Wright? To refresh those memories, he’s the Australian computer scientist who is claiming to be bitcoin’s inventor (AKA Satoshi Nakamoto)....
The hacking of an experimental virtual currency project called the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) has sent a chill into the digital currency ecosystem....
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) is looking to go beyond bitcoin to innovate its FinTech side. The bank is reviewing its own digital currency...