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Recently, the World Economic Forum predicted blockchain technology will “fundamentally alter the way financial institutions do business around the world” and will soon become “the beating heart” of the finance industry. Monica Eaton-Cardone, an...

Drachmae Travel Club, an exclusive blockchain travel portal, is conducting a competition for travellers. The 'Bitcoin Altcoin and Blockchain Competition' requires participating travellers to record the travel details and expenses incurred during their trips...

IBM and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa have announced the completion of their first blockchain project to improve the bank’s ability to verify customer identity. The result of this pilot is an operational permissioned blockchain network...

Blockchain technology has become the focus of attention of some of the world's largest financial institutions with Indian banks being no exception. Banks such as Axis Bank Ltd. are vigorously looking at blockchain technology to...

PeerNova, Inc. has revealed that it has been selected as a “2016 TiE50 Winner” for the TiE50 Technology Awards Program. Winners were announced on May 6th at the organization’s annual entrepreneurial conference, TiEcon. Executives...

Consulting, technology and outsourcing services provider, ascr has announced an alliance with ascribe GmbH to develop a blockchain database solution built on BigchainDB, for a rewards and loyalty system for consumer banking that tracks processed...

Ripple, the provider of distributed ledger financial settlement solutions, has announced the employment of Marcus Treacher as Global Head of Strategic Accounts. Treacher apparently has more than 30 years of experience in transaction banking and payment system...

Blockchain Inspector, based in the French commune of Angoulême, is an early stage startup aiming to use blockchain to combat fraud. In March, they signed a deal with their first customer, a London Bitcoin exchange,...

“Lending bubbles usually look the same. Credit criteria is loosened. Verification standards are relaxed. The people selling the loans make money when the loans are booked, but do not suffer from losses when the...

In his ninth budget speech last week, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang highlighted the Hong Kong government's plan to foster the utilization of blockchain technology in the city's financial services industry and incubate...