Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Symbiont reveals first smart securities on blockchain

Symbiont, a pioneer in the use of the blockchain and distributed ledger technology in capital markets, today issued the first Smart Securities on the Bitcoin blockchain.

04 August 2015

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Australian Senate says bitcoin should be treated as a regular currency

The Australian Senate says that digital currency transactions should be treated in the same way as fiat for the purposes of taxation, overturning a previous judgement from the country's Taxation Office that labelled bitcoin holdings as 'intangible assets'.

04 August 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Mexico's meXBT enters Asia through CoinRepublic acquisition

The Mexican leader exchange platform of digital currencies in Mexico, meXBT, announced the acquisition of the company owned and operated by CoinRepublic, the most establish and respected digital currency brokerage in the Republic of Singapore.

03 August 2015

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Karpeles arrested; former Mt Gox employee spills beans on shady business dealings

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox over accusations that he siphoned off $1 million in customer funds to his own bank account.

03 August 2015

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Deutsche Bank backs blockchain potential

Deutsche Bank is the latest major financial institution to laud the potential of the blockchain, confirming that it is exploring the use of distributed ledger technology for everything from securities clearing and settlement to anti-money laundering registries.

31 July 2015

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George Galloway proposes 'MayorsChain' to track city finances

Radical anti-establishment politician and prospective London mayoral candidate George Galloway is proposing to use the blockchain to track the capital's $17 billion budget in real time.

30 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Secure Trading to provide payments platform to digital currency startup BlockEx

Secure Trading has announced a partnership with enterprise-level digital currency exchange, BlockEx, as a turnkey payments solution.

30 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Bitnet and Zooz announce Bitcoin partnership

Bitnet, an enterprise Bitcoin payments processor, and Zooz, an industry-leading payments platform provider, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment method on the Zooz payment platform.

29 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Ripple Labs names Michael Barr as advisor

Ripple Labs, the global leader in distributed payments technology and supporters of the Ripple protocol, today announced that it has named Michael S. Barr, former official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution, as an advisor to the company.

29 July 2015

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Mike Tyson bites into bitcoin

The Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson, is muscling in on the world of cryptocurrencies, lending his star power to a new bitcoin ATM in Las Vegas.

27 July 2015

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Peter Randall resurfaces with post-trade blockchain startup

Peter Randall, the former CEO and founder of Chi-X, is once again looking to upset established market mechanisms with the launch of an institutional payment and settlement system based on blockchain technology.

27 July 2015

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BNP Paribas explores the blockchain; SocGen advertises bitcoin-related job

Further evidence has emerged that French investment banks are exploring the potential of blockchain technology in the capital markets.

24 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Bitreserve adds new currencies

Bitreserve, the world's first real-time, transparent and free financial service, today announces the availability of seven new currencies to its cloud money service. Now users can hold, exchange and send money between sixteen global currencies and four precious metals.

23 July 2015

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Wall Street eyes the blockchain

Almost all of Wall Street thinks that the blockchain could be applied to institutional capital markets and many firms are already actively reviewing the technology, according to research from Greenwich Associates.

23 July 2015

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Fraud arrests linked to JPMorgan hack

Authorities in the US and Israel have arrested four people in connection with fraud schemes linked to last year's huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase.

22 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

BitX raises $4 million

We are excited to announce our USD 4 million Series A funding round lead by the Naspers Group, through their payments subsidiary PayU. Our existing investor, Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, also participated in the round.

21 July 2015

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Financial institutions and the disruptors

Mike Laven, CEO of Currency Cloud talks of the relationship between start-ups and larger financial institutions and the positive collaborative efforts these two parties can enjoy for the benefit of customers.

21 July 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Alpha Payments Cloud enlists Snapcard for bitcoin acceptance

Snapcard, a leading payment processor and e-wallet for Bitcoin, has partnered with Alpha Payments Cloud to power AlphaHub users to accept Bitcoin payments globally.

20 July 2015

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Bitcoin capital investment surpasses 2014 levels

The 2015 level of venture capital (VC) investment in bitcoin companies has already exceeded the amount invested in 2014 with almost six months of the year still remaining.

17 July 2015

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ING opens Belgium fintech accelerator; mistakenly blocks Dutch user from bitcoin

On the day ING’s Belgian arm burnished its innovation credentials with the launch of a fintech accelerator, an overzealous staffer across the border at the bank’s Dutch unit did their best to undermine the effort by mistakenly blocking a customer from buying bitcoins.

17 July 2015