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Bitcoin distracted from blockchain potential

Davide Girompini, Global Leader Payments and Transaction Services, IBM, speaks about the options banks have when trying to innovate cost-effectively, and how distributed ledger technology can be applied in the financial services industry.

22 February 2016

News

Icici preps APIs for virtual mobile app development challenge

India's Icici Bank is hosting a virtual mobile app challenge, inviting developers to tap a set of over 50 APIs to build tools for the chance to win cash prizes.

17 February 2016

News

Japan Exchange Group and IBM to run proof-of-concept blockchain test

Japan Exchange Group is to run proof-of-concept tests of the use of distributed ledger technology in low volume markets in conjunction with IBM.

16 February 2016

News

Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project boasts new members and code contributions

The Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger Project has signed up 30 founding members from the technology and financial services sectors, with several donating code to the effort to build a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers.

09 February 2016

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Simplification and innovation from blockchain

John McLean, CTO and Vice President, Software Group Europe, IBM, outlines the potential benefits of blockchain for financial institutions, what opportunities an open source approach allows, and what 2016 may hold for industrial blockchain development.

08 February 2016

News

Goldman and IBM join Digital Asset Holdings funding round

Goldman Sachs and IBM have jumped aboard Digital Asset Holdings' recent investment round, taking the blockchain startup's haul to more than $60 million.

02 February 2016

Company announcement

IBM inks maintenance deal with Indian white label ATM operator

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that it has entered into a seven year strategic relationship with BTI Payments Private Ltd, India’s fastest growing White Label ATM (WLA) operator, to transform its IT Infrastructure. BTI Payments, which runs over 3000 “India1” branded White Label ATMs will leverage IBM’s managed services solution to deploy and manage an incremental 4,000 Automated Teller Machines (ATM) across the country.

18 January 2016

Company announcement

IBM buys Iris Analytics

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has acquired IRIS Analytics, a privately held company specializing in real-time analytics to help combat payment fraud.

15 January 2016

News

Fed hands IBM contract to modernise ACH platform

IBM has won a tender to modernise the Federal Reserve's ACH platform, which processes up to 100 million transactions per day and half of all US payments.

14 January 2016

News

Shop Direct to spend £50 million on personalised financial services

UK online retailer Shop Direct is to spend £50 million with IBM to develop personalised financial services for its four million customers.

13 January 2016

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Enabling new frontiers for banking efficiency

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, discusses the role of digital in leveraging efficiency and agility in banking and which technology areas banks should focus on to achieve efficiency gains.

27 December 2015

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Change in banking is a need to survive

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, outlines how the digital revolution has impacted traditional retail banking, the effect it has on how banks define their products and services, and what technology enablers have caused this change.

23 December 2015