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Finextra TV/Blockchain
Micah Gland, CEO of the Helsinki Business Hub discusses the entrepreneurial spirit of Finland and the new wave of FinTech innovation.
29 April 2014
News/Blockchain
Bitcoin startup Xapo has unveiled plans for a debit card that lets users pay with the crypto-currency wherever plastic is accepted.
25 April 2014
The National Stock Exchange (NSX) has moved to play down its relationship with Atlas ATS, insisting that it has not agreed to regulate the bitcoin trading platform.
24 April 2014
Despite the hype, the vast majority of Brits have no interest in using bitcoin to shop online, with a lack of trust cited as the main barrier to uptake.
17 April 2014
Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is refusing to travel to America this week to answer questions about the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange's US bankruptcy case.
15 April 2014
The US Attorney General has raised the prospect of applying money-laundering and know-your-customer controls to virtual currency transactions as a means to clamp down on illegal activity.
09 April 2014
The Royal Canadian Mint has pulled the plug on its MintChip cloud-based digital currency and is looking to offload the business.
07 April 2014
In a sure sign of the growing business interest in crypto-currencies on Wall Street, the Security Traders Association of New York (Stany) has decided to accept payment in bitcoin for tickets to its Annual Conference and Dinner.
31 March 2014
Jumio has signed up several bitcoin-related businesses to a scheme which lets users validate their identities by holding up paper ID to the cameras of Web-connected devices.
28 March 2014
Digital currency start-up Circle Internet Financial has closed a $17 million funding round, including an investment from former Swift chief executive Leonard Schrank.
26 March 2014
America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says that it will treat virtual currencies such as bitcoin as property, rather than currency, for tax purposes.
Beijing-based virtual currency exchange Vircurex has frozen customer accounts because it does not have the reserves to cover withdrawal requests.
24 March 2014
Mt. Gox says that it has found around 200,000 bitcoins - worth in the region of $116 million - in an old digital wallet.
21 March 2014
Bitcoin wallet outfit Coinbase has hired Facebook's director of security incident response Ryan McGeehan to build its own security programme.
20 March 2014
Xapo, a bitcoin wallet and cold-storage vault start-up established by former Lemon founder Wences Casares, has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark, with Fortress Investment Group and Ribbit Capital.
14 March 2014
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is to regulate virtual currency intermediaries in Singapore to address potential money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks.
13 March 2014
Far from taking off as a new currency, the true value of Bitcoin lies in its potential to transform existing payments networks, say Goldman Sachs analysts in a comprehensive report into the budding crypto-currency.
New York state's financial services regulator has begun accepting applications from firms wanting to set up virtual currency exchanges.
12 March 2014
Inconsistencies in the Irish banking industry's attitude to crypto-currencies have emerged after Bank of Ireland refused to let a bitcoin ATM outfit open an account before AIB stepped in to say it could work with the firm.
11 March 2014
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, the man named as bitcoin's creator by a magazine on Thursday, has denied the claim before leading reporters on a car chase around Los Angeles.
07 March 2014
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