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BTL launches blockchain remittance platform

BTL Group LTD - (TSX VENTURE:BTL) ("BTL" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that it has been invited to showcase its blockchain technology at the BC Tech Summit, January 18th & 19th, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

18 January 2016

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Digital Asset Holdings opens London office; hires more bankers

Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain startup helmed by former JP Morgan luminary Blythe Masters, has brought onboard more banking heavyweights and opened a London office.

15 January 2016

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SXSW goes fintech

Fintech geeks will join music and movie stars in Austin, Texas, this year after the SXSW festival and conference invited a host of startups aiming to disrupt the financial services world to take part in an accelerator pitch-off competition.

15 January 2016

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Fintech comes to Davos

Fintech will be high on the agenda at this year's World Economic Forum jamboree in Davos, as senior bankers take to the stage to discuss the digital convulsion hitting their industry, and smaller startups stalk the halls.

13 January 2016

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Royal Canadian Mint offloads MintChip digital currency assets

The Royal Canadian Mint has offloaded its MintChip cloud-based digital currency to Toronto startup nanoPay, which plans to commercially deploy the technology within weeks.

12 January 2016

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Earthport creates single API for access to distributed ledgers

UK-based payment network Earthport has launched a single API to connect banks to Ripple's distributed ledger protocol when processing cross-border payments.

12 January 2016

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GFT launches Blockchain app for commodities

GFT, the leading provider of advisory, business consulting, IT and software services has launched its commodities consensus computing prototype for clients, which demonstrates how it is possible to track physical commodities assets through the use of a distributed ledger-based business model.

07 January 2016

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Indian bitcoin firm Zebpay raises $1m

Zebpay, India’s first bitcoin company announces $1 million in series A funding, led by private equity investors. The funding is aimed at further escalating the company’s already impressive growth and customer service success.

06 January 2016

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Gem leads blockchain investment for 2016 securing $7.1M in series A funding

Gem, a leading blockchain platform provider, announces today that it has closed $7.1 million in Series A funding, led by Pelion Venture Partners and participated in by KEC Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, RRE Ventures and more.

06 January 2016

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Accenture shortlists 15 for London Innovation Lab

Blockchain technology, cognitive computing and biometric security feature among the shortlisted applications selected to participate in Accenture’s 2016 FinTech Innovation Lab London.

06 January 2016

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Blockchain consortium R3 begins recruitment drive

Bank-backed blockchain collaboration outfit R3 is in the market for talented developers, designers and architects capable of working on "some of the thorniest problems in financial technology".

05 January 2016

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Mike Tyson lends muscle power to bitcoin wallet

Bitcoin Direct, LLC, a subsidiary of Connexus Corporation (OTC PINK: CNXS), and Mike Tyson announced the Mike Tyson Digital Wallet today.

04 January 2016

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Crazy fintech predictions for 2016

Pascal Bouvier, newly installed as a venture partner with Santander Innoventures fintech venture fund, dusts off his crystal ball and peers into the not-too-distant fintech future.

04 January 2016

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Nasdaq sees in the New Year with first blockchain transaction

Nasdaq is claiming a major step forward in the use of blockchain technology in capital markets after documenting a successful private securities transaction via its distributed ledger-based Linq platform.

04 January 2016

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2015: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2015, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 4 January 2016.

23 December 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Vogogo in partnership with US-based CBW Bank, to market US bank program

Risk Management & Payment Processing specialist Vogogo Inc. ("Vogogo") (TSX VENTURE:VGO) today announced a formalized partnership with CBW Bank.

22 December 2015

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M-payment network Bolero to run loyalty programme on the blockchain with Ribbit.me

Boloro, the international mobile payments processing network with expanding operations across 15 countries by the end of 2016, has announced their selection of Ribbit.me's universal blockchain-based loyalty industry platform to provide their merchant partners with a loyalty solution.

21 December 2015

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Turning off the liquidity tap

Lee Fulmer, Market Commentator, discusses progress with intraday liquidity management, exploring how banks need to understand not just whether they have enough liquidity but how to control the flow of that liquidity in a crisis situation.

17 December 2015

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Fortune Coin trading platform to open in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based trading platform Fortune Coin will open on January 1, 2016, marking the first step in the company's globalization process.

17 December 2015

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R3 consortium numbers swell; FS giants join Linux Foundation distributed ledger project

The R3-led blockchain consortium is to close applications to new member banks as 12 more financial institutions sign up and will instead concentrate its efforts on recruiting non-banks to the coalition.

17 December 2015