Chain of Shipping Conference Held in Hong Kong

Last week in Wanchai, Hong Kong, blockchain advisory firm Chain of Things held its first Chain of Shipping conference. Designed to give professionals from the shipping industry and blockchain developers a view into the...

Thomson Reuters Added to R3 Consortium

The R3 consortium has grown further with the inclusion of Thomson Reuters, which has joined the financial innovation firm partnership to promote and develop distributed leger technologies to global financial markets. The R3 team...

Russian Blockchain Consortium Announced at St. Petersburg IFC

The formation of a Russian blockchain consortium was announced at the XXV International Financial Congress in St Petersburg. The members of the consortium are: QIWI Group, Accenture, BINBANK, MDM Bank, Bank Otkritie, Tinkoff Bank. These major companies in...

Research Published on Blockchain Utilization of Intel Software Guard Extensions

The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts – ‘IC3’, a NYC-based consortium of leading academics and industry leaders who are driving innovations in blockchains and distributed ledgers for financial and other applications, has released three...

Chain of Things Announces Blockchain + IoT Shipping Conference for 24 Nov

The shipping industry is stifled by paper based processes, delayed detection of quality control issues, expensive proceedings for contract dispute arbitration, and massive amounts of documentation fraud. Even though the industry has been slow...

Banks Collaborate to Provide Global Payments on Blockchain

Global provider of financial settlement solutions, Ripple has announced that a number of global banks are combining to establish the first interbank group for global payments based on blockchain technology. Bank of America Merrill...

Chain of Things Highlights Blockchain + IoT Potential at GSMA Africa Conference

Last week, at a GSMA event in Tanzania, Chain of Things (CoT) revealed how it is using blockchain technology to enhance the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Conor Colwell, COO & Co-Founder,...

Blockchain Consortium Formed by Chinese Financial Firms

Representatives and technical leaders from all the 31 financial institutions and companies of the Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium (FSBC) recently attended a founding conference and the first membership event. Founded on 31st of May 2016,...

Corda Platform Developed for Financial Market Standard

R3 Consortium has developed the Corda - a platform which represents a combined effort between banks, insurers, fund managers and other to develop blockchain technology for use in the financial markets. R3 says it...

White Paper Discusses Role of Blockchain in Consortia

Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin have published a new white paper, ‘Blockchain and Shared Ledgers: The New Age of the Consortium’, examining the differences between private shared ledgers and public blockchain to support...