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EEA unveils standardised ethereum specification for enterprise deployment

Until today, organizations were required to build proprietary variations of a private-permissioned Enterprise Ethereum implementation.

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Circle rounds on $110 million funding round

Today we announced the pending availability of tokenized US dollar coins supported by developments in the CENTRE open source framework and by a new partnership with Bitmain, which is also leading a $110M Series E equity investment in Circle.

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Founding CTO of Azimo, Marek Wawro, joins Coinfirm DevOps team

Marek Wawro, co-founder of Azimo (London based Fintech which raised over 46 million USD from investors such as Rakuten, Greycroft or Anthemis Group) and recently CTO of Doctify, joined the Coinfirm team as DevOps Ninja.

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Coinbase targets institutional investors with new tools

The cryptocurrency market is maturing rapidly as more sophisticated institutional participants enter the space. In fact, in the past few months over 100 hedge funds were created that exclusively invest in and trade cryptocurrency. Some of the world’s largest financial institutions have also recently announced their plans to begin trading cryptocurrency.

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New York positions as blockchain innovation centre

Kicking off CoinDesk’s annual flagship Consensus conference as the opening keynote, NYCEDC President and CEO James Patchett today announced plans to plant a flag in New York City’s growing blockchain industry.

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CommBank CFO Rob Jesudason quits for blockchain startup Block.one

Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain software and seller of the EOS token, a top-five cryptocurrency by market cap at approximately US$12.4 billion, has named Rob Jesudason as its Group President and Chief Operating Officer.

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Mitsubishi to pilot real funds, cross-border payment over RippleNet

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), MUFG Bank, Ltd. (MUFG Bank), Bank of Ayudhya PCL (Krungsri), a Thailand-based subsidiary of MUFG Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered), today jointly announced the commencement of a pilot test for moving real funds over RippleNet, with the objective of making cross-border payments more convenient and further improving the capital efficiency of corporate groups.

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Kx Systems launches support for cryptocurrency trading

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc (AIM:FDP.L, ESM:FDP.I), announces that its Kx for Flow electronic trading platform has been extended to support the trading of cryptocurrencies.

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PumaPay raises $117m in private token sale

Decentralized Vision, Cyprus-based blockchain company, has ended the Private Sale for its PumaPay project by raising $117 million on May 7, 2018.

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FinTech Scotland recruits Deloitte for expansion plan

The body representing Scotland’s thriving financial technology community, Fintech Scotland, has today announced it has entered a key strategic partnership with business advisory firm Deloitte.

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Blockchain Valley Ventures accelerator land VC firm launches

Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV), a new accelerator and venture capital firm offering investment, financing, and advisory services for blockchain-enabled businesses, has launched today.

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Liechtenstein gets House of Blockchain

æternity, the blockchain 3.0 platform designed to deliver unmatched efficiency, transparent governance, and global scalability and legal firm NÄGELE Attorneys at Law proudly launched the House of Blockchain in Vaduz, Liechtenstein at an opening ceremony on Monday that featured a speech from Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Adrian Hasler.

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Korea's Coinone joins RippleNet

Coinone Transfer — a payments business and a subsidiary of Coinone — has joined RippleNet to use xCurrent, Ripple’s leading blockchain solution for cross-border payments and settlement.

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Colt and PCCW Global expand blockchain trial

London, UK, 8 May 2018 - Colt Technology Services and PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, have further progressed their blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC).

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2018-19 Budget steady for Australian fintech – but the big news is yet to come

Australia’s fintech industry will benefit from a number of important support measures in tonight’s 2018-19 Australian Budget but will be forced to wait for the big news about the details of Australia’s open banking framework.

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Bitfinex appoints Peter Warrack chief compliance officer

Bitfinex, one of the world’s leading digital asset trading platforms, has announced that Peter Warrack, former Director of AML (Fintech Advisory) and Compliance Officer at the Bank of Montreal, has joined the exchange as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO).

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Gemini joins Caspian crypto trading network

Caspian, the full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform for institutional and sophisticated investors, has partnered with Gemini, the licensed digital asset exchange, as part of its strategy to connect institutional investors and active traders with multiple exchanges from a single interface.

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Cobalt FX post-trade network secures investment from SGX

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) post-trade processing network based on shared infrastructure and high performance technology, has secured a strategic investment from Singapore Exchange (SGX), which operates Asia’s largest, most diverse and fastest growing FX exchange.

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Gartner survey reveals scarcity of blockchain deployments

Only 1 percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey.

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EEA releases Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), with over 500 members, today unveiled the next phase of its Enterprise Ethereum specification strategy, with the public release of its Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack (EEAS).

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