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IBM and Mahindra apply blockchain to the supply chain

The Mahindra Group, one of the largest diversified multinational group of companies based in India, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the development of a blockchain solution that has the potential to reinvent supply chain finance across India by enhancing security, transparency and operational processes.

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80 startups battle it out at blockchain contest

Nearly 80 blockchain-focused startups from 29 different countries took part in the Graz-based Blockchain Startup Contest, with representatives from the top 20 entries invited to present their projects at a demo day held on Monday, November 28.

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Ripple appoints CME man to grow XRP into a viable currency

Ripple is proud to announce another addition to our team: Miguel Vias, head of XRP markets.

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Hyperledger hits 100-member milestone

Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that it has hit a major milestone of 100 active members.

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JPX to form Japanese blockchain consortium

Japan Exchange Group is to form a consortium of financial institutions to run trials of the use of blockchain technology in capital markets infrastructures.

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R3 open sources Corda

Financial innovation company R3 has made its Corda distributed ledger platform open source, granting the global developer community universal access to its source code to encourage collaboration, review and contribution to the platform.

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Former Nyse chief Niederauer joins Paxos board

Paxos, a financial technology company delivering revolutionary blockchain solutions for global financial institutions, today announced the appointment of Duncan L. Niederauer, the former Chief Executive Officer of The New York Stock Exchange, to the company's Board of Directors.

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Chamber of Digital Commerce and Hyperledger forge policy pact

The Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world's largest trade association representing the blockchain industry, and Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, today announce a strategic partnership to strengthen industry advocacy and education efforts.

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Blockchain needs business standards

Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards at Swift, discusses how the industry can best approach the development of the business standards needed to ensure that blockchain developments don’t create islands of automation that cannot interoperate.

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R3 and Calypso to develop blockchain trade confirmation system

Undeterred by the departure of some its top banking members, blockchain consortium R3 continues to press ahead with new initiatives, partnering with Calypso Technology to develop a multi-party trade confirmation system running on the Corda distributed ledger-based smart contract platform

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Royal Mint to issue digital gold

The Royal Mint, a 1000-year-old institution owned by HM Treasury, is partnering with CME Group to create a digital gold product that will be stored and recorded on a blockchain.

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Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse test blockchain tech for securities settlement

Germany's central bank has teamed up with exchange operator Deutsche Börse to develop a functional prototype for blockchain technology-based settlement of securities.

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Open APIs drive big data progress

Andy Hirst, VP Banking Solutions, SAP, discusses the big trends in big data – unstructured, openness, machine learning – and explores the challenges banks still face in exploiting the value of their data to the max.

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Swiss government looks to ease rules for fintechs

A division of the Swiss government has called for an easing of regulations for fintech firms in favour of a more forward-thinking approach, including a special 'fintech' license.

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SOFE Berlin: Van der Kleij plots blockchain startup network

Former Level39 head honcho Eric van der Kleij is seeking the support of financial heavyweights like Swift and big international banks for the creation of a global network of blockchain labs and accelerators for tech startups.

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2017 will be the year of payments integration

Dean Henry, Director, Head of Global High Volume Payments, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks about the redirecting of fintech energy away from rivalry towards partnership, the challenges that globalisation presents for small, medium and large clients, the role of digital wallets to facilitate payments to parts of the world without robust traditional infrastructure, and how to tackle the proliferation of payments options now springing up.

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SOFE Berlin: Swift unveils blockchain proof-of-concept

Swift has taken the wraps off its first blockchain proof-of-concept and pledged to become more vocal and engaged with the community in driving the application of the technology at both an industry level and embedded within its own member-owned network.

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Neobanks are showing incumbents the way

Dr. Mircea Mihaescu, Chief Operating Officer at Moven, debunks the myth that new entrants will disrupt existing banks, discusses how incumbents will learn from and partner with innovative neobanks, and talks about the cultural challenges for established players of putting the focus on the customer, not the product or the transaction.

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Designing for what comes after Alexa

Tom Poole, Managing VP, Mobile Commerce, Capital One, discusses the explosion of channels out to the customer, the need to think ahead about how to take services to where the customers are, and how the umbrella term of digital wallet will likely evolve to reflect the different approaches of banks, retailers and tech firms.

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More than 100 migrant workers test blockchain remittance in Thailand

Money sent to Myanmar instantly with Everex’s Ethereum-based mobile payments app