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Blockchain / Distributed Ledger
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2.4KIBM Chosen As Banks’ Blockchain Partner
Seven big European banks have selected IBM to build their blockchain-based platform with a goal of making trade finance transactions simpler and...
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3.4KCircle Launches Fee-Free Blockchain-Based International Money Transfer
Goldman Sachs and Baidu-backed blockchain startup Circle have launched an international online money transfer service. The new offering will allow American and European...
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2.9KBlockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Technology Could Impact Voting in U.S. Elections
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...
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2.4K“Fixing” the Blockchain Is Dividing The Miner Community
The blockchain has a problem — it is really, really backlogged. As bitcoin has gotten more popular, the number of people trying...
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3.4KBlockchain Tracker: Governments Trust In Blockchain
Setting and sticking to a budget can be difficult for anyone — and it’s even more so for the government. Given the...
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5.4KZcash: Impossible To Trace, Expensive To Buy
Bitcoin, it seems, is out — the cool digital currency taking the world by storm now is Zcash, a product designed by academics...
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loyyal Solves Customer Incentive Challenges Through Dubai Accelerators Program
Across the world, business accelerators have been popping up. In the U.S. alone, the number of accelerators grew from 16 programs to...
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Blockchain Shows Up In China’s Food Safety Industry
Blockchain technology has been finding its way into new industries. Thanks to this new technology, paper ledgers and trails could soon be...
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2.5KThe Stock Market For Startup Stock
The investment that got away. The uncle who should have bought into Microsoft in the early 80s, the cousin who could have...
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Blockchain Tracker: Prizes And Regulations, Do They Mix?
Only in the tech space do we see an unending list of prize challenges hoping to prove that bettering the future can...
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Blockchain Tracker: Economic Revolution, Editing Controversy & Health Care
Each week it seems blockchain just gets another endorsement. This week? Richard Branson. The billionaire and Virgin Group founder said blockchain will...
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3.7KJPMorgan Chase Rethinks Banking With The Blockchain
JP Morgan Chase is working on a new way to leverage the blockchain technology that supports bitcoin and allow the bank to design a...
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Blockchain Headed More Mainstream, IBM Says
Could 2016 be “The Year of the Blockchain?” Some research says it could indeed be. IBM said, by this time next year,...
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1.6KStandard Chartered Completes Cross-Border Payment In Less Than 10 Seconds
Standard Chartered announced on Wednesday (Sept. 28) the completion of the first real-time cross-border payment for businesses with another major correspondent bank....
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Blockchain Tracker: Capitol Hill To Startups, Incubators Inbetween
Could be the beginning of a riddle: Why did a new caucus and an incubator show up on Capitol Hill? Trick question,...
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2.7KBlockchain Takes It To The House With Own Congressional Caucus
On Capitol Hill, it appears that blockchain — and digital currency itself — has arrived. American Banker reported on Monday (Sept. 26) that...
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2.9KBanks Join Forces To Create Interbank Group For Global Payments
Ripple, the provider of financial settlement solutions, announced on Friday (Sept. 23) a number of global banks joining forces to create the...
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1.9KIBM And China UnionPay Pair Up On Blockchain Loyalty
IBM and UnionPay are collaborating on a way to use the blockchain for trading loyalty points. In a proof-of-concept reveal, the two...
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5.2KBNP Paribas To Let Companies Issue Mini-Bonds On Its Blockchain Platform
BNP Paribas Securities Services is looking at letting companies issue mini-bonds on its blockchain technology platform. According to a press release, the...
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Blockchain Startups Fine-Tune The Music Industry
Startups specializing in blockchain may have their eye on disrupting the $15 billion music industry. According to Forbes, the music industry stands...
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Blockchain Firsts, Seconds And Fish
To be the first to do anything is always a coup. You want first pick in your fantasy football league. Who doesn’t...
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3.5KUS Government Sees The Benefits Of Blockchain
The U.S. government is showing support for digital currencies and seeing potential advantages to its use. A nonbinding resolution passed on Monday...
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3.1KBanks Uniting Over Blockchain
Banks are seeking ways to cut costs and make up for the persisting low interest rates. Blockchain is one item under discussion,...
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Visa To Invite Lenders To Test Out Blockchain System For Sending Money
Blockchain technology may have been the underpinning for bitcoin, but it’s not stopping there, with a slew of financial companies eyeing blockchain...
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Google, Apple Eyeing Blockchain For Payments
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...
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3.5KSome Big Banks Are Borrowing The Blockchain To Build Their Own Bitcoin
The blockchain — the underlying technology that powers the digital currency bitcoin — may be nearing its mainstream moment in the sun as four...
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5.9KVerizon Communications Files Blockchain Patent Application
Telecommunications provider Verizon Communications has been experimenting with blockchain technology, which is what powers bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to Business Insider, which...
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2.9KEthereum Venture Claims Off-Blockchain First
While the FinTech industry is exploring the potential of blockchain technology, some are taking another path and exploring how another distributed ledger,...
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4.3KCan Blockchain Simplify Trade Finance?
Blockchain has been making inroads into finance — specifically, trade finance — through a series of agreements struck this week that show...
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7.1KThomson Reuters First Major Data Provider To Join R3 Blockchain Consortium
Thomson Reuters is joining a consortium that includes some of the largest financial institutions around the world working to determine how to...
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Ethereum Hack Workaround Upsets Some Bitcoin Developers
Ethereum, the alternative digital currency that was the victim of a hack last month that caused close to $60 million of investors’...
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Petition Aims To Take The Mystery Out Of Blockchain Custody
The blockchain has another link, this time in the legal world. CoinDesk reported on Wednesday (July 20) that law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP...
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Meet YoCoin: The Bitcoin Alternative
There’s another digital currency in town, and its name is YoCoin. The question is: Can YoCoin give bitcoin a run for its...
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UK Banks Hit Blockchain Payment Milestone
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...
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‘Bitcoin Creator’ Building Digital Currency Patent Portfolio
Remember Craig Wright? To refresh those memories, he’s the Australian computer scientist who is claiming to be bitcoin’s inventor (AKA Satoshi Nakamoto)....
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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Ethereum’s Hack Impact
The hacking of an experimental virtual currency project called the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) has sent a chill into the digital currency ecosystem....
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Forget Bitcoin — Tokyo Bank Wants Its Own Digital Currency
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...
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Institutional Investors Still Mixed On Blockchain
While the concept of incorporating blockchain’s tech into their own business models is gaining steam, institutional investors are still mixed on moving...
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Blockchain’s Faster Bitcoin Payments Push
The company Blockchain, which is most known for its bitcoin wallet, has another project up its sleeves that it’s developing in order...
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Delaware Digs Into Blockchain’s Tech
The state whose claim to fame is being the first state in the Union in 1787 might soon get a little more...
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Wall Street’s Secret ‘Digital Dollar’ Meeting
What happens when you get a group of Wall Streeters and 100 financial institution executives in one room to talk about FinTech...
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EU Won’t Regulate Blockchain — For Now
The European Union has decided it won’t take a formal stance on regulating blockchain, at least for now. According to the EU parliamentary...
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Blockchain Gets A Russian Payments Friend
Qiwi, a Russian payments provider, is showing some interest in blockchain technology. Despite the harsh regulatory environment for bitcoin and the blockchain...
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MIT Advances Blockchain Research With Ripple
MIT is pushing forward with its blockchain research — with the help of Ripple. As part of MIT Connection Science, a research...
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EU Commissioner: Blockchain Can Offer Regulators Transparency
The debate over blockchain, distributed ledger technology and their usefulness may be ongoing, but one regulator has sanguine views about the potential. In...
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Blockchain’s Wall Street Test And Satoshi Has A Birthday
Bitcoin plus blockchain plus banks still seems like an unlikely combination, despite news that JPMC and Citigroup have completed their tests about using...
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Barclays Supports Circle Social Payments App
Circle, the social payments app that runs on bitcoin’s blockchain, launched with support from Barclays as part of a new partnership. Circle...
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Overstock Invests $4M In Digital Currency FinTech Firm
Overstock’s CEO has a reputation for having an affinity for digital currency — which has been reflected in Overstock’s business plans — and...
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6.6KBlockchain’s Next Trillion-Dollar Market
The march toward bringing blockchain to new applications and services continues. As The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (March 29), Depository Trust...
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Bitcoin’s Rival Catches Finance, Tech Giants’ Attention
Move over bitcoin — there’s a newer digital currency in town gaining more attention. That’s bitcoin’s latest rival on the market, known...
