No R3: Overstock Plots Blockchain Consortium For ‘Everyone Else’
Online retail giant and upstart blockchain innovator Overstock has begun working to build its own blockchain consortium.
Online retail giant and upstart blockchain innovator Overstock has begun working to build its own blockchain consortium.
The Sydney Stock Exchange has successfully prototyped a blockchain for equity securities.
Blockchain startup Factom has raised a $4.2m in new funding as part of a newly announced Series A.
Bitcoin startup Blockstream has a new CEO.
Wall Street megabank JP Morgan has co-developed a permissioned version of the Ethereum network.
Former itBit client group director Antony Lewis has officially joined banking consortium R3.
Despite the promise that blockchain holds for banking, the sector will likely not be first to put the burgeoning technology into real-world action.
Deutsche bank is facing rising pressure that could result in the firm's financial insolvency.
Making blockchains editable opens up financial systems to the potential for fraud, says author and investor Brian Kelly
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Indian bitcoin exchange startup Uncoin has raised $1.5m in a new funding round.
Dutch multinational bank Rabobank today announced a cross-border payments tool its creators argue is more powerful than a database.
A planned acquisition deal between Chinese manufacturer Shandong Luyitong and bitcoin mining hardware company Canaan is no more.
The inside story of how Microsoft and Bank of America worked together to build a blockchain prototype for trade finance.
Some of the world's banks and financial markets are bullish on blockchain products, new survey data shows.
CME Group has added China-based digital currency exchange OKCoin to its bitcoin pricing indexes, first announced in May.
ASX says it intends to decide on whether it will migrate to a blockchain-based settlement system by the end of 2017.
CGI has launched a blockchain trade finance and supply chain laboratory to explore applications of blockchain technology.
Digital currency exchange Bitso has raised $2.5m in new funding.
CLS is working with IBM to build a blockchain platform for payments netting.
A syndicated loan exchange trial utilizing blockchain being undertaken by a group of banks alongside startups R3 and Symbiont is moving ahead.
BigchainDB has raised $3m to help turn tradition databases into blockchains.
Two central securities depositories (CSDs) have agreed to collaborate on distributed ledger initiatives in a first-of-its-kind agreement globally.
Bank of America and Microsoft have announced their intent to build and test blockchain applications for trade finance.
Swiss National Bank president Thomas Jordan says the central bank is in discussions with regulators and other central banks about blockchain.
A group of banks within the R3 distributed ledger consortium have tested a blockchain prototype for US Treasury bond trades.
China's Juzhen Financials has raised $23m (¥153m) to develop clearing and settlement solutions based on blockchain.
Swift announced three blockchain startups that won a competition to build a distributed ledger bonds solution earlier this year.
The world's largest mining firm as ranked by PwC intends to begin using the ethereum blockchain to improve its supply chain processes.
China’s major financial institutions believe governance should not be replaced in any larger transitions to blockchain.