Blockchain

25 Sep 18 @ 10:10

The $110 trillion payments business is facing further and major disruption from the FinTech revolution that will upend the traditional financial services industry and create new opportunities for venture-backed companies... read more

20 Sep 18 @ 14:56

Initial coin offerings, or ICOs, are a recent craze in the cryptocurrency world. Despite being just a couple of years old, ICOs have managed to attract a lot of attention.... read more

13 Sep 18 @ 09:00

GRAFT (Global Real-time Authorizations and Funds Transfers), a blockchain payment network innovator has announced that it has achieved its first end-to-end instant payment transaction (under 2 seconds) on the GRAFT Network.... read more

12 Sep 18 @ 14:52

SoftBank, Synchronoss and TBCASoft have announced that they have partnered on a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a new cross-carrier mobile payments service based on the Rich Communications Service (RCS) global messaging standard... read more

11 Sep 18 @ 14:12

Ripple Labs says it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 and XRP II, according to a press release published today. As per that statement, the details of the settlement... read more

03 Sep 18 @ 13:03

China is further tightening its clampdown on cryptocurrency, nearly a year after the government imposed a wide-ranging ban on local exchanges and ICO’s fundraising for digital currencies. Financial officials in an eastern... read more

24 Aug 18 @ 12:46

The Bank of Thailand has outlined a preliminary road-map for Project Inthanon, its central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative. The Bank of Thailand (BoT), the country’s central bank, is partnering... read more

14 Aug 18 @ 13:51

Previously existing only on the fringes of finance or computer science, cryptocurrencies are now being discussed more widely. In the future, banks may not be the only ones making money... read more

03 Aug 18 @ 10:58

A new study has found that blockchain deployments will enable banks to realise savings on cross-border settlement transactions of more than $27 billion by the end of 2030, reducing costs by... read more

31 Jul 18 @ 13:41

Mastercard recently won a patent to protect a method that would manage “fractional reserves of blockchain currency”, meaning consumers might one day be able to charge their purchases on their credit... read more

25 Jul 18 @ 15:17

American Express has proceeded with the latest in a series of blockchain patents that it is seeking to position the group as the leader in new blockchain enabled transaction technology.... read more

17 Jul 18 @ 09:58

UK regulators are starting to give cryptocurrencies and associated crypto assets their seal of approval. This is significant, not least because it goes against the prevailing wisdom among policymakers around the world... read more