Search Results for: blockchain technology
Bitcoin graduate Circle launches free social payment app in UK with Barclays
April 6th, 2016
Circle, the leading digital payments company which uses the blockchain as a settlement rail, is launching a social payment app in the UK with the help of Barclays. It’s the first time the Financial Conduct Authority has granted an ...
BNP Paribas Securities Services And Smartangels Revolutionise Financing For Private Companies
April 6th, 2016
BNP Paribas Securities Services, a leading global custodian, and SmartAngels, the leading direct investment platform, have taken a major step forward in crowdfunding history by signing a strategic partnership for the use of Blockchain technology. BNP Paribas Securities Services ...
Venture Capitalists Inject Nearly Half a Billion in Bitcoin throughout 2015
April 4th, 2016
The year 2015 has been a particularly good one for Bitcoin startups all over the world, as a lot of money was raised over the course of 12 months. A recent report by Consultancy in the Netherlands shows how ...
Bitcoin surveillance startup Elliptic raises $5m Series A funding
March 21st, 2016
Elliptic has today announced a $5 million Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group, and existing investor, Octopus Ventures. Christopher Steed, Managing Director of Paladin Capital Group, ...
Traditional Financial Services Firms fear almost a quarter of their business is at risk from FinTechs
March 15th, 2016
FinTech companies are more bullish, believing they could capture a third of incumbents’ business Results from a PwC survey released today, which assesses the rise of new technologies in the financial services (FS) sector and their impact on market ...
EC focuses on monitoring, not regulating, virtual currencies
January 29th, 2016
The European Commission is examining whether virtual currencies need to be regulated in the wake of last November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, but is currently more focused on monitoring the likes of bitcoin than on rushing out new rules. ...
R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger
January 21st, 2016
Financial technology innovation company, R3 CEV, today announced the successful completion of a ground breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions. R3 and consortium member banks Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of ...
Is Bitcoin Breaking Up?
January 18th, 2016
Rift widening over how to deal with the size limits within the virtual currency’s ledger of transactions A prominent bitcoin developer has labeled the currency a failed experiment, widening the rift over an arcane but critical technical issue that ...
The Top 10 (or 11) Bitcoin-Friendly Cities
January 18th, 2016
Looking to spend bitcoin on your travels? Your chances are much greater in the US. Seven of the top 11 cities with the most merchants that accept bitcoin are in the U.S., based on information from coinmap.org. San Francisco/San ...
Goldman, JPMorgan Seen as Fintech Winners While AmEx Suffers
December 29th, 2015
Autonomous Research survey finds most unafraid of disruption American Express, Western Union seen as biggest losers Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will probably benefit most from the coming wave of financial technology disruption, rather ...
