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Japan banks target fintech start-ups after law change
September 26th, 2016
Change to 5% ownership cap part of national effort to push financial technology Japan’s biggest banks are looking to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into fintech start-ups after the abolition of a law that prevented them from owning more than ...
Fintech Firm Ripple raises $55 Million In funding
September 16th, 2016
Ripple set out to solve a global problem, with far-reaching implications and significant obstacles. Where others struggle to find a use case and a market, Ripple has turned customers into investors, and capital into commercial deployments of our solutions. ...
PwC reports double digit growth for second consecutive year
September 12th, 2016
Revenue up 11% to £3.4bn Growth is reported in all business areas, with particular client demand for cyber security, data analytics and technology services Total number of UK equity partners increased to 926, from 885 last year (4.6% increase) ...
Tech partnership brings people and payments closer together
September 9th, 2016
Innovative link-up of CBA’s CommBank app and Barclays’ Pingit will allow customers to move money over 10,000 miles – quickly, securely and seamlessly – with no more than a mobile number. Ground breaking collaboration marks the first time two ...
DLT Financial To Launch Top 10 Cryptocurrency Index
September 8th, 2016
Recently rebranded from Tramonex, DLT Financial is a fintech company that aims to make virtual currencies an enticing asset class for investors. The firm has received a 250,000 GBP ($333,000 USD) grant from the UK government to develop a working prototype of their proposed ...
BM&FBOVESPA becomes first exchange to join R3 distributed ledger consortium
September 7th, 2016
BM&FBOVESPA will be collaborating with over 60 of the world’s largest financial institutions to develop ground-breaking commercial applications for the financial services industry that leverage the appropriate elements of distributed and shared ledger technology. This initiative is part of ...
UBS wins big bank backing for Utility Settlement Coin concept
August 24th, 2016
BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Icap and Santander have joined with UBS and Clearmatics to advance the Utility Settlement Coin, an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on distributed ledger technology. UBS and Clearmatics floated the model in September 2015 to ...
Eight big FX participants commit to new service
August 18th, 2016
The fast-moving and competitive world of post-trade blockchains sees a new entrant in the form ofCobalt DL, a distributed ledger technology platform looking to slash costs in the world of FX trade processing. Cobalt DL was co-founded by Andy Coyne, ...
Multi-platform software wallet Jaxx now stores Dash, the seventh most valued cryptocurrency in the world
August 17th, 2016
Multi-platform software wallet Jaxx now stores Dash, the seventh most valued cryptocurrency in the world with a market cap of about $80 million. Jaxx is available across nine platforms and devices including Android and iOS Mobile, Android and iOS Tablet, Firefox and Chrome Extensions, ...
International Law Firm to accept payment in Bitcoin
August 17th, 2016
The Washington DC-headquartered firm, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, announced last week that it will accept payment in the digital currency known as Bitcoin. Alan Cohn, an of counsel at the firm and former assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland ...
