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December 16, 2016

What Happened to the Financial Blockchain Revolution?

Once upon a time, there was a lot of optimism that the blockchain — the technology underlying Bitcoin — would help the finance industry deal with […]
September 26, 2016

Major Banks Launch Global Payments Steering Group – Group members unite to create the first rules-based blockchain payments network

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ripple, the global provider of financial settlement solutions, today announced that a number of global banks are joining forces to establish the first interbank […]
September 26, 2016

PSD2 Facts: No more home country shopping?

In this series, every Friday, I will be posting facts on PSD2 (yes there is more to it than just XS2A!) to get you up-to-speed with […]
September 26, 2016

Santander Vies to Become First Bank to Issue Cash on Blockchain

Spanish banking giant Santander is working on a project that explores how it could digitize customer cash using the public ethereum blockchain. Revealed today during a panel […]
September 26, 2016

PSD2: 5,000 banks, 15 months and lots of work to do

In a mere 15 months, approximately 5,000 financial institutions across Europe will be required to provide open access to customer, transaction and payment information via APIs. […]
September 26, 2016

AI is from Venus, Machine Learning is from Mars

The rise of cloud computing brings with it the promise of infinite computing power. The rise of Big Data brings with it the possibility of ingesting all […]
September 26, 2016

Hardware Oracles: bridging the Real World to the Blockchain

Blockchain applications live in their own digital realm, totally orthogonal to the “meat space” also known as the Real World™. Be it decentralized application or smart […]
September 26, 2016

Money Laundering with Digital Currencies: Working group established

Today, Europol, INTERPOL, and the Basel Institute on Governance have formalised the establishment of a tripartite partnership for a working group on money laundering with digital […]
September 26, 2016

Banks find blockchain hard to put into practice

Banks are rushing to adopt blockchain — the database technology that underpins bitcoin — in order to cut costs, but technologists and business people are having […]
September 20, 2016

European Banking Authority Proposes Virtual Currency-Specific Regulatory Body

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has advised that the European Commission establish a regulatory regime specific to virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Commenting on the commission’s proposal to amend […]