Ascribe Applies Blockchain to Secure Digital Art

Global Award & Tour for Digital Art, the Lumen Prize has launched a new online art platform dedicated to promoting and collecting blockchain secured works of art by award winning and shortlisted Lumen Prize...

German Tech Entrepreneurship Center Shortlists Startups for Blockchain Innovation Award

The German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) , a Berlin campus promoting technology and entrepreneurship, has shortlisted startups for its Blockchain Innovation Award, which is sponsored by Globumbus and RWE. The competition was apparently strong, as GTEC received over...

Shrewd Markets & Smart Settlement On Blockchains

Chain-Finance attended Professor Michael Mainelli’s seminar on Smart Settlement and Blockchain. Professor Mainelli talked about the copious research his group have been conducting on Mutual Distributed Ledgers (MDL). The Professor will be publishing a...

Financial Services Blockchain Solutions From KPMG

KPMG has announced the introduction of its Digital Ledger Services, a suite of services designed to help financial services companies realize the potential of blockchain capabilities in providing faster and more secure transactions, streamlining...

DTCC Encourages Financial Sector Collaboration, Authorities Play “Leading Role” on Distributed Ledger Tech

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the US post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services to the financial markets, has released a white paper that calls for financial sector collaboration in...

Digital Asset, DTCC to Develop Distributed Ledger Solution for Repo Clearing

Digital Asset Holdings, a developer of distributed ledger technolgy, and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced plans to develop and test a distributed ledger based solution to manage the clearing and settlement of...

Chain-Finance Workshop Discusses Blockchains in Credit Markets, Bonds

On Wednesday night, at Tower Hill in London, Chain-Finance held its first Blockchain Finance workshop, designed to inform and educate listeners on the potential benefits of using blockchain technology in various financial situations. The focus...

Goldman Sachs Report Details Significant Benefits of Blockchain Technology

Goldman Sachs has recently released a report on blockchain, investigating the potential of the technology to revolutionise different market areas and to determine how effective its use might be in reducing the time, cost...

Blockchain Technology Revolutionises Australian Solar Power Market

Australian residents in Perth and the South West may soon be able to use blockchain technology to buy, sell or swap excess solar energy with anyone connected to the countries Western Power network, if...

Disrupting Real Estate with Blockchain

The blockchain, the core technology underlying the digital currency bitcoin, has gained much interest from the financial services industry with major players all looking to harness its potential in hopes to gain in efficiency...