03/16/2018
Want Your Salary in Crytocurrency? It Could Happen Sooner Than You Think
Strong arguments are being made about the advantages of cryptocurrency payments within the gig economy.
Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI
03/16/2018
Citi Launches Chatbot in Singapore
Singapore bank OCBC introduced AI-powered chatbot «Emma» in 2016 to respond to customers’ queries on home and renovation loans, and has since raked in more than S$100 million in home loans.
03/15/2018
Bitcoin Exchange Ties-up with Barclay’s for UK Transactions
San Francisco-based exchange, Coinbase, said its UK subsidiary was the 1st to be granted an e-Money license by the UK’s financial watchdog, a precursor to getting the banking relationship with Barclays.
03/15/2018
Optimizing Investment Banking Costs, Banca Is Shaping Crypto Asset Management
The analysis of big data provides ratings for each member’s business level, professional skills, and reliability.
03/15/2018
Artificial Intelligence Hedge Funds Had Worst Month On Record
The Hedge Fund Research index, tracking all discretionary funds, posted a 2.4% decline for February.
03/15/2018
Marsh joins B3i blockchain rival Ethereum
A blockchain or distributed ledger can serve as a shared record between counterparties and can coordinate and reduce complexity in their shared accounting and settlement processes.
03/15/2018
Digital currency sales face more regulatory focus
The huge investment in the largely unregulated market, which began in 2009 with the launch of Bitcoin and includes more than 1 200 tokens
03/14/2018
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank partners Bitt for digital currency pilot
The MOU between the ECCB and Bitt Inc. is the culmination of a three-day workshop which involved teams from the ECCB and Bitt Inc.
03/13/2018
6 out of 10 people would consider cryptocurrency investment
An increasing general awareness of cryptocurrencies and how they work, plus a growing sense that cryptocurrency regulation is now inevitable, are perhaps the main reasons why such a high percentage of people are now open to looking at the possibilities of
03/13/2018
Central bank digital currencies could impact payments, monetary policy and financial stability
"Central bank digital currencies could help make settling trades of securities and foreign exchange more efficient in the future."
03/13/2018
Benefits of implementing Blockchain technology
The multi-layered processes (which include the pre-trade, trade, post-trade and custody, and securities servicing) is extremely complex.
03/13/2018
Big Banks Beginning to Sing the Crypto Tune
The interest that banks are showing in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology is bound to be a boost of confidence for crypto traders and miners who had been rocked by the downturn witnessed earlier this year.
03/12/2018
Bitcoin Accepted in Japan, Banned in China
Zhou's statement is an emphasis, after the United States on Thursday said the online trading platform of digital currencies “has the potential to break the law” so it must be registered with the regulator.
03/12/2018
Excessive Crypto Regulation Not Optimal, EU Banking Authority Says
Enria remarked that the policy debate on technological and financial innovation often focuses on two opposite approaches: “regulate and restrict”
03/12/2018
Align Wins Best Global Cloud Services Provider in the Hedgeweek Global Awards
Align Managed Cloud Solutions Voted Top of Industry Worldwide
03/11/2018
The Relationship of Ripple with Fleetcor and Japanese Banks
The objective is to join the hands of Cambridge Global Payments (Fleetcor’s international payments subsidiary) and blockchain solution firm Ripple in order to process more than $20 billion B2B transactions.
03/09/2018
Court confirms CFTC jurisdiction over cryptocurrency fraud and that virtual currencies are commodities
Self-regulatory organizations, or SROs, such as stock exchanges, that can help self-police virtual currency markets.
03/08/2018
Could bitcoin become the next Swiss bank account?
“The normal person in the U.S. today can actually start using offshore banking with bitcoin if they have an account abroad,” Drake told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo during an interview on Wednesday.
03/08/2018
Legal input “needed after blockchain”, says fintech solicitor in wake of pioneering deal
It was the first time the legal architecture had been developed to enable a business to do this new kind of deal.
03/08/2018
SEI and Synechron Join Forces for Blockchain Utilization
SEI Evaluates Distributed-ledger Technology and Offers Training for In-house Experts