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Accenture and Leading Financial Institutions Call for Applicants for the Asia-Pacific FinTech Innovation Lab 2016
April 18th, 2016
The Asia-Pacific accelerator program, now in its third year, mentors financial technology entrepreneurs to help accelerate product and business development Applications open today for Asia-Pacific’s third annual FinTech Innovation Lab, Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) 12-week program that helps early- and ...
Former regulator turns Bitcoin tech advocate
April 14th, 2016
Former New York state financial services chief Benjamin Lawsky may have taken a harsh view of virtual currency as a regulator, but he has begun to stump for the technology behind it. The man accused of implementing tough regulations on ...
This new Arab Bitcoin community plans to push adoption of digital currency across the Middle East and North Africa
April 11th, 2016
AskBitcoiner is the First Major Arab Bitcoin Community This new Arab Bitcoin community plans to push adoption of digital currency across the Middle East and North Africa in the coming years. Bringing the culture of Bitcoin and 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 ...
