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The former chief executive of Barclays, Anthony Jenkins, believes the FinTech will disrupt the traditional banking industry over the next ten years.
Coinbase has partnered with Shift Payments to issue a new bitcoin debit card that can be used by US residents at merchants accepting VISA.
The innovation firm R3 has received support from five additional banks that joined the company’s project on developing blockchain solutions for the finance industry.
UBS Group AG partner Clearmatics continues raising its funds while UBS is working with blockchain.
Some of the leading companies in the financial industry, including Societe Generale and the London Stock Exchange, have partnered to study the potential use cases of the blockchain technology.
Align Commerce facilitates the process of wire transfers with a help of blockchain.
Rootstock, a blockchain-based platform for implementing smart contracts, is in talks with The World Bank and other banks in Latin America to deliver its services for the globes unbanked.
Visa Europe Collab, Visa Europe’s innovation hub, teamed up with Epiphyte to work on the new proof of concept for blockchain-based international remittance services.
Top 10 FinTech startups highlight how FinTech is developing at a rapid pace. The sector is one of the fastest growing businesses in Silicon Valley. It represents 7.2% of the U.S. GDP and unlike the established traditional players like banks and brokerages, marketplaces have the ability to be nimble and efficient.
The UK authorities are ready to create favorable regulatory environment in the country.
Microsoft and ConsenSys team up to offer Ethereum Blockchain as a Service on Microsoft Azure. The service will allow customers to use a single click cloud based blockchain developer environment.
The tech world is developing becoming even more powerful. And, the firms connecting parts of it are growing as well. LogMeIn is among those who don’t miss their opportunity.
The research firm TABB Group has released a new report that states the first use cases of the blockchain technology across capital markets may be expected in Q2 of 2016.
A New-York based company specializing on voting machines, has recently announced developing a voting machine based on blockchain technology.
The heads of the IMF and JP Morgan claim they don’t believe that bitcoin will achieve widespread usage in the next years.