French finance minister Bruno Le Maire has revealed the government’s plan to invest 4.5 billion euros in blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies over the next five years.
Accenture and Generali Employee Benefits (GEB) have launched a blockchain solution for the employee benefits (EB) industry.
Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced that former Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank Kurt Looyens has been appointed as its new chief executive officer.
Following the recent warning from Binace CEO Changpeng Zhao to delist Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), other crypto exchange platforms seem to be following suit.
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has added support for Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) on its recently launched over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform.
Corporate Traveller, a UK-based business travel management services provider, has teamed up with blockchain payment provider BitPay to start accepting bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH) payments from its SME custome…
Financial services giant Northern Trust has announced that it has enhanced its blockchain solution for private equity fund administration and deployed legal clauses as smart contracts.
Nestlé, Carrefour and IBM – the founding members of the IBM Food Trust platform – are working together on a project to use blockchain technology to track Mousline instant mashed potato.
20|30, a blockchain startup aiming to tokenize equity and other securities, has raised £3 million by selling tokenized shares on Turquoise, an equity trading platform operated by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Fi…
Japan’s ST Blockchain Fund has invested $200 million in the Series A round of Blockchain Exchange Alliance (BXA), the parent company of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, Cointelegraph reported.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) is teaming up with blockchain startup R3 to join the latter’s global network to share best practices regarding blockchain technology and develop s…
Harvard University’s endowment, a perpetual source of support for the University’s mission of teaching and research, is venturing into the blockchain space.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper was planning to meet with social media giant Facebook to discuss investing in the latter’s crypto project, Bloomberg reported April 10.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is considering developing a highly scalable blockchain solution to reinforce d…
Two international financial institutions – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank – are the latest to jump on crypto and blockchain bandwagon.
Samsung SDS, an IT subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung Group, has signed a business agreement with Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra to drive the global expansion of its enterprise blockchain platform ‘Nexledger’.
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has announced the expansion of its C2C fiat-to-token trading platform to European markets with new currencies – Euro (EUR), Turkish Lira (TRY), and Russian Ruble (RUB).
Binance Labs, Binance’s venture arm, has awarded a total of $45,000 to its first three open-source Fellowship projects.
China’s NDRC considers banning crypto mining activities The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), a macroeconomic management agency under the Chinese State Council, is considering eliminating bitcoin mini…
Japan-based Resona Bank has announced that it is cancelling its cooperation with the Ripple-powered payments app, Money Tap.
Crypto payments startup Flexa has raised $14.1 million in funding ahead of the company’s public launch slated for May 2019.
TEAMZ Inc hosted its TEAMZ Blockchain Summit on April 6th and 7th at Toranomon Hills in Tokyo, Japan, which saw participation from some of the biggest names in the industry.
Blockchain startup Digital Asset announced that it is working with cloud computing giant VMware to integrate its open-source smart contract language DAML with the VMware Blockchain platform.
AR blockchain platform developer Scanetchain has announced the release of their new dapp 'Inxight' on April 10th.
The International Chamber of Commerce is interested in exploring how blockchain technology works and is forming a blockchain-focused group, Forbes reported.
Bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt has announced the appointment of Mike Blandina as its Chief Product Officer.
Food and drug retail giant Albertsons Companies is the latest to join blockchain-based IBM Food Trust network.
Horizen Labs has announced that it is launching as a blockchain development company that will aim to make distributed ledger technology accessible for business.
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory system, has announced that it has commenced the second phase of a project that aims to prevent cyberatt…
Velocity Ledger Holdings Limited (VLHL) has announced that it has received the approval from the Ministry of Finance of Bermuda to conduct an initial coin offering (ICO).
Ripple offers frictionless experience to send money globally and its token XRP is currenty ranked third with a market cap of around $14 billion. Stellar is an open source, decentralized platform which allows cross-bor…
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has rejected Bittrex’s application for BitLicense citing a number of factors.
Crypto exchange Coinbase has launched a Visa debit card which will allow UK-based customers to easily spend their crypto funds.
Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that a cross-border securities settlement between two central securities depositories (CSDs) was recently carried out successfully using Quartz Blockchain.
Fidelity Digital Assets, an institutional provider of crypto custody and trade execution services, has announced Christine Sandler as the head of Sales and Marketing.
The Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC) has published regulatory guidance on security token offerings (STOs).
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), a macroeconomic management agency under the Chinese State Council, is considering eliminating bitcoin mining activities in the country, Reuters reported.
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced the details of its blockchain project which has been selected for '2019 Blockchain Public Pilot Project.'
Securitize, a compliance platform for digitizing securities on the blockchain, is rolling out its Securitize Ready Program, CoinDesk reported.
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted the nineteenth BitLicense to the U.S.-based subsidiary of Bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange.
