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The Spanish Tax Authority has probed at least one bitcoin-friendly business for information on the way it handles digital currency payments.

Boost VC CEO Adam Draper discusses his incubator's recent decision to begin using the term "blockchain" in place of "bitcoin".

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating the actions of some banks for closing accounts of various bitcoin businesses.

Another great week for blockchain technology, heralded by Barclay's partnership with two distributed ledger startups.

Blockchain startup Wave discusses its strategy for scaling its operations to meet the demands of global trade and its new deal with Barclays.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is planning to demonstrate its blockchain-based proof-of-concept early next year.

Bitcoin compliance startup Chainalysis discusses its new partnership with UK bank Barclays and its potential impact on the ecosystem.

Factom Inc, the for-profit business entity overseeing the blockchain recordkeeping project Factom, has raised $400,000 in new seed funding.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a public warning against Cryptoconomist Limited, a crypto investment firm.

Blockchain startup Hyperledger has won the Innotribe Startup Challenge at Sibos conference, walking away with a reported $50,000 in prize money. The team, acquired by Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings earlier this year, made their pitch onstage alongside 11 early-stage finalists including crypto remittance platform Bitspark. And the winner is… @Hyperledger! Congratulations from the whole Innotribe […]

Bitreserve has unveiled a major overhaul of its platform and a new name: Uphold, Inc.

UK banking giant Barclays has signed contracts with two blockchain startups, according to the New York Business Journal.

European cryptocurrency exchange Yacuna has announced it will close next month.

Another Latin American e-tailer, Famsa, is now accepting bitcoin for online purchases.

Bitcoin compliance solutions provider Scorechain has raised €500,000 ($570,000) in seed funding.

Blockchain platform Setl claims to have surpassed 1 billion transactions per day, in what it terms a "milestone" for scaling the technology.

Fix Trading Community, a global industry trading body, has announced the creation of a digital currency and blockchain technology working group. The non-profit organisation, which boasts some of the world’s biggest banks as its members, is responsible for addressing business and regulatory issues impacting global multi-asset trading. Fix’s new group will be chaired by Sean […]

Secco is a 'blockchain-inspired' challenger bank aiming to disrupt the sector "from the outside in".

Singapore-based remittance startup Toast, previously known as Cryptosigma, has pivoted away from bitcoin and blockchain technology and reportedly raised $850,000 (S$1.2m) in seed funding. The startup – which seeks to facilitate remittances for Filipino workers living in Singapore – announced its re-branding in a blog post in July and said it would for now operate […]

Following the first Block Chain Summit at Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island, BitFury has organized a follow up event in the Middle East.

Tunisia's post office, La Poste Tunisienne, today revealed it is testing a crypto-powered payments app for 600,000 of its customers.

Blockchain technology could potentially transform payments, says a new report by American multinational banking corporation BNY Mellon.

Developers will now be able to build on Stellar’s distributed network following an upgrade to its codebase which will also protect it against forking. According to a blog post by founder Jed McCaleb, the upgraded network is now more secure, scalable and modular than before. He added: “The Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) optimises for safety rather […]

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is experimenting with its own in-house cryptocurrency, says the bank's technology chief.

The Nomura Research Institute will study blockchain technology to assess its use in the securities sector.