Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 19 December 2017
Features ABI Lab, R3, the government of Estonia, Chronobank and Bitcoin.com.
Features ABI Lab, R3, the government of Estonia, Chronobank and Bitcoin.com.
Introduces software appliance that secures confidential data in the cloud.
Will provide the basis for its core banking and reporting system.
Features Softbank, Lemonade, Amazon, Capital Float and Delio.
UK firm seeking to carve itself a slice of the credit management market.
An easier way to bank face-to-face with a live teller from the comfort of members’ cars.
Fiserv will integrate TransUnion’s CreditVision Link to increase precision of scoring and risk modeling.
In the process of obtaining a banking licence as it targets commercial, SME, bridging and development finance.
An overview of the most important threats in the payments landscape.
The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 next year.
The recent surge in its price is good news for investors, but perhaps a death sentence for its functional value.
Cellum will offer money transfers via TransferTo’s cross-border mobile payments network.
They target expanding their fintech clout along the “Belt and Road Initiative” route.
Plans to apply tighter rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing on cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
Former Barclays boss, Bob Diamond, is in talks to buy a stake in UK-based challenger bank Tandem.
Implements TrueConf’s video conferencing solution into its first branch.
To support the launch of NICE Uptivity, a workforce optimisation solution for SMBs.
Story needs more double entendres.
The responses on the potential for future development of DLT in the markets it regulates.
A look at Amsterdam’s fintech scene via a one-day tour.
More than 15 members either cut financial support or quit the project over the past few months.
Lawsuit dismissed against the US Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over charter plans.
UBS is looking for a chief technology officer (CTO) for finance and risk technology.
Smart contracts platform Symbiont has teamed up with Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP).
Oracle reported total cloud revenues up 44% to $1.5 billion for Q2 of its fiscal 2018.
Point of sale (POS) financing provider Financeit completed an investment round with existing shareholder Goldman Sachs
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With concerns that AI will make human employment obsolete, research firm Gartner is looking to counter that narrative.
IBM has revealed the first clients to tap into its IBM Q early-access commercial quantum computing systems.
Risk management firm Simility locks in $17.5 million in new funding, with help from PayPal.
Amazon Web Services now plans to open its second cloud computing region in China.
The baddest boy on the security block.
The duo are targeting Africa’s unbanked population.
Google has unveiled an AI centre in China as it searches out humans with ML talent.
This round-up features Finstar, State Street, FRISS and iZettle.
Nesta names prize winners at the conclusion of stage one of its Open Up Challenge.
Nordea has connected APIs to its production system and made its open banking live in Finland.
Will also increase hub’s workforce by 70% in 2018.
IBM has unveiled its Bot Asset Exchange – a place for chatbot development.
‘Tis the season for gift giving, and no gift has a “richer” history than cash.