R3 Announces New Distributed Ledger Platform For Financial Services ‘Corda’
Apr 06, 2016 04:36 am UTC| Digital Currency
R3 and member banks of the blockchain consortium are working on a distributed ledger platform for financial services:Corda. Richard G Brown, Chief Technology Officer, R3, made the announcement via online post. He said...
Bank Of Ireland Completes Blockchain Trial
Apr 05, 2016 12:34 pm UTC| Digital Currency
While the hype around blockchain technology continues to grow, banks and tech companies around the world have started experimenting with the technology to unlock its potential. Latest reports suggest that Bank of Ireland...
BNP Paribas, SmartAngels Partner To Bring Blockchain Technology To Securities Market
Apr 05, 2016 11:40 am UTC| Digital Currency
BNP Paribas Securities Services, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas banking group, has entered into a strategic partnership with crowdfunding platform Smart Angels. The primary objective is to run a pilot project that will allow...
Bitcoin Exchange Coinmotion Announces Zero Commission Trading Campaign
Apr 05, 2016 10:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
Coinmotion, a Europe-based bitcoin exchange and wallet service provider, has announced that it has started processing orders with zero percent commission. The campaign, however, is not for longand will be active until...
Mexican Bitcoin Exchange Bitso Adds Ether Trading
Apr 05, 2016 09:18 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ethereums growth in past couple of months has been unprecedented. Its market cap currently stands at around $856 million (at the time of writing), second only to bitcoin. The growing popularity has caused several...
Three Areas of FinTech Innovation For 2016
Apr 05, 2016 09:10 am UTC| Technology Digital Currency
Its been over 17 years since new financial technology completely changed the game. That being PayPal, an online payments system that helped the fledgling eCommerce concept become a hundred billion dollar industry in the US...
XML Gold CEO Sees Bright Future For Bitcoin
Apr 05, 2016 07:42 am UTC| Digital Currency
XML Gold, a Bitcoin and digital currency exchange platform, was founded in 2000 and provides fast, safe and economical internet payment operations. Its services are compatible with Perfect Money, Bank wire, Bitcoin,...
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