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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) last week announced its plans to regulate cryptocurrency wallet services, Bitcoin.com reported.

Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has announced that it has started a project that aims to build a future microgrid using blockchain technology.

South Korea’s Ministry of the Public Administration and Security has announced its plans to establish an “intelligent government roadmap” with central and local government bodies to operate a “smarter” e-government by…

Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, has lowered his year-end target for bitcoin price to $15,000 from $25,000, CNBC reported.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Brazilian banking giant Banco Bradesco has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Japanese bank MUFG to launch a new blockchain-based cross-border payment service.

Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT), which initially took the global financial sector by storm, is being tested and implemented across almost all industries.

Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank has announced that it has successfully completed a pilot trade transaction for two corporate customers using the recently launched eTradeConnect platform.

BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices continued to downtrend for the third consecutive day, during late European session Friday, tracking pessimism from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) annual enforcemen…

Bitcoin is an extremely clever idea, but not every clever idea is a good idea, says ECB’s Benoît Cœuré Bitcoin is the evil spawn of the financial crisis, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) executive board s…

Three central banking authorities – the Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) – have jointly published a report which assesses alternative models that could enh…

Bitcoin is the evil spawn of the financial crisis, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) executive board said recently.

Tech titan Microsoft has announced the initial release of the Azure Blockchain Development Kit, built on the firm’s serverless technologies.

Cryptocurrency startup Gem has launched a crypto portfolio tracker with automatic exchange sync with 25 crypto exchanges.

It's been nearly a year since bitcoin’s price peaked at almost $20,000 (all-time high). However, the story has taken a turn this year and bitcoin’s value plummeted to sub $6,000 in a matter of hours on November 14.

Indian IT company NIIT Technologies has announced its partnership with enterprise software firm R3 to develop blockchain-based solutions for Banking and Financial Services, Insurance and Travel and Transportation.

Cryptocurrency custodian and security firm BitGo has announced that it has added support for four stablecoins including CENTRE USD (USDC), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX), and TrustToken’s TrueUSD (TU…

Malaysian banking giant CIMB is collaborating with blockchain startup Ripple to enable instant cross-border payments across CIMB’s markets.

BTC/USD: Bitcoin prices tumbled to a one-year low during late European session Thursday, after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its annual enforcement report, pinning down several r…

Despite the recent spurt in blockchain investments and jobs globally, the Irish population appears to be unwilling to consider a career in this technology, a new survey has revealed.

Sweetgreen, an American fast casual restaurant chain, has raised $200 million in its latest round of financing led by Fidelity Investments.

KEOS, a Seoul-based startup focused on taking the EOS community forward, today announced that KEOS tokens have been listed on EOSDAQ.

Global food company Smithfield Foods has joined a new blockchain consortium focused on the food industry.

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica is collaborating with tech giant IBM to implement blockchain technology to streamline core business processes.

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) has announced a joint venture with leading Asian fintech firms which will focus on developing new blockchain protocol to support issuance, trading, and clearing and settling of digit…

Singaporean cryptocurrency platform KuCoin has secured $20 million in a Series A funding round from IDG Capital, Matrix Partners, and Neo Global Capital.

Arket, the in-house brand of clothing retail giant H&M, is testing blockchain technology for product traceability, The Next Web reported.

South Korean internet giant Kakao has entered into a partnership with stablecoin project Terra to apply its Klaytn platform to the latter’s blockchain-based payment system, The Korea Times reported.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Canada have started work on linking their respective blockchain platforms to explore the possibility of instant, 24/7 settlement of cross-border payments transaction…

SIX Swiss exchange expects its planned blockchain-based platform to completely replace its traditional trading platform within a decade, Reuters reported.

Blockchain payments startup Circle has announced a new reward program aimed at breaking the barriers to investing in cryptocurrencies.

The Thai Democrat Party has used blockchain technology to elect its new party leader in a recently held primary election.

The Chinese city of Loudi, located in central Hunan province, has rolled out a blockchain-based platform for recording real estate data, CoinTelegraph reported referring to a report from People’s Daily.

OKEx, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of 24-hour trading volume, has added a fiat currency, Vietnamese Dong (VND), to its C2C trading market on November 12, 2018.

VAKT Global, a company formed by a consortium of commodity traders, energy majors and banks, is planning to launch a blockchain-based post-trade processing platform for the energy industry by the end of 2018, CoinDesk…

Blockchain startup Axoni has announced that banking giant HSBC has joined its Series B financing round.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Data61 division and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) have announced that they have successfully trialed a new type of blockchain-powered s…

Nine leading ocean carriers and terminal operators are teaming up to form a consortium to develop the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), an open digital platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Transoil International and Solaris Commodities have conducted a blockchain pilot transaction of Black Sea wheat, S&P Global reported.

Great Lakes Science Center, an Ohio-based museum and educational facility, will start accepting Bitcoin as a payment method from today, November 13, Crain’s Cleveland Business reported.