Latest Blockchain News: Finextra Research

Santander to run global blockchain challenge

Santander InnoVentures – the $100 million fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group – is launching an open competition to encourage and support early stage startups using distributed ledger technologies in the financial services industry.

05 November 2015

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Blockchain is to trust as cloud is to computing

Michael King, Chairman, Credits, speaks about the potential of blockchain and distributed ledgers to disrupt the financial industry, and how well banks may be collaborating with fintech startups, particularly in the UK.

04 November 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Wall Street Blockchain Alliance puts together working groups

The Executive Committee of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA) is pleased to announce the launch of its Working Committees, with their respective chairpersons:

03 November 2015

News/Blockchain

USAA pilots bitcoin balance check feature

USAA has teamed up with Coinbase to test a feature which enables members to check their bitcoin balances through the online army bank's website and mobile app.

03 November 2015

News/Blockchain

Biohacker demos bitcoin payments by chip implant

A research team from Swedish-based marketing and technology agency DigitasLBi has demonstrated a world-first bitcoin payment from a chip implant.

03 November 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Digital Asset Holdings acquires Blockstack.io

Digital Asset Holdings and Blockstack.io today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Digital Asset will acquire San Francisco-based Blockstack, a firm that offers a “blockchain-as-a-service” to enable financial institutions to develop applications on a private blockchain.

02 November 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Bitx rebrands as Digitrade

Bitx Financial Corp(BITXF) today announced that effective October 27, 2015 the Company filed a Notice of Alteration with the British Columbia Corporate Registry and changed its corporate name from BitX Financial Corp to Digatrade Financial Corp.

29 October 2015

Company update/Blockchain

More banks sign up to R3 blockchain project

Financial innovation firm R3 today announced that three additional major banks have joined its consortium to design and apply distributed ledger technologies to global financial markets.

28 October 2015

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MasterCard makes first bitcoin investment

MasterCard has finally dipped a toe in the crypto-currency pool, joining a host of other big name investors backing new bitcoin incubator Digital Currency Group (DCG).

28 October 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Decentralised P2P lending app MoneyCircles launches

MoneyCircles.com is a decentralised peer-to-peer lending app built on Uphold (formerly Bitreserve) which allows circles of people to get together and mimic a credit union to save & lend with one another based on a ‘common bond’.

28 October 2015

Company update/Blockchain

Ultra Electronics bolsters HSM offering

Ultra Electronics AEP, the provider of trusted security, announces major enhancements to its Ultra Safe KeyperPlus HSM.

28 October 2015

News/Blockchain

Fintech qualification programme launches

A new certification programme claims to be the first global qualification exclusively for technologists working within financial institutions.

28 October 2015

News/Blockchain

Nasdaq signs first clients to blockchain-based platform

Nasdaq has signed up the first batch of clients for its new blockchain-enabled platform for trading shares in private companies.

27 October 2015

Company update/Blockchain

BlockCypher unveils API for issuance and handling of assets on the blockchain

Today at Money 20/20, BlockCypher announces the availability of their Assets API, which enables the issuance and handling of any asset on the blockchain.

27 October 2015

Company update/Blockchain

MeXBT unveils cross-border payments platform

This week, meXBT will present Pay.meXBT, its new payment platform for emerging economies, at Money 20/20, 2015, one of the most important global events for financial innovation.

27 October 2015

News/Blockchain

ASX considers replacing clearing and settlement system with blockchain

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) could replace its clearing and settlement system with a blockchain-based alternative.

26 October 2015

News/Blockchain

American Express makes first bitcoin investment

American Express has taken its first steps into the cryptocurrency world, participating in a Series A funding round in bitcoin payments venture Abra.

23 October 2015

News/Blockchain

Blockchain firms form alliance to help take on crooks

Keen to shake off bitcoin's association with the underworld, a collection of blockchain firms have banded together on a forum promising to work with law enforcement agencies to tackle criminals using the technology.

23 October 2015

News/Blockchain

EU's top court rules in favour of tax-exempt bitcoin

The European Court of Justice has ruled that bitcoin and other virtual currency transactions should be exempt from value added tax.

22 October 2015

News/Blockchain

W3C Web Payments Working Group to create APIs for online checkout

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established a Web Payments Working Group to develop a set of standardised APIs to help streamline the online checkout experience and make payments more secure.

21 October 2015