15 UK start-ups were selected for the 2016 Fintech Innovation Lab London, the fintech accelerator programme, from a leading global professional services company Accenture.
The project called “interledger protocol” aims at connecting all existing ledgers.
Deloitte insists that if properly applied, blockchain has potential to enhance financial services.
Microsoft has added four new partners, including BitPay, to its Azure blockchain-toolkit platform.
R3 CEV, the firm leading a consortium of banks to expand a common blockchain framework, is in the market for unique talent.
Nasdaq, which has completed the first transaction through its digital ledger system, faces competition from Symbiont that claims to be the first company that started trading shares using blockchain.
Ledger will present some of its newest bitcoin solutions at the CES 2016.
Bitcoin is entering 2016 with winning positions being called “one of the world’s best performing currencies of 2015”.
Former JPMorgan’s executive Blythe Masters is reportedly facing problems while trying to raise funds for her blockchain focused startup Digital Asset Holdings.
Only 14% of those interrogated predicted that banks can suffer from financial technology disruption.
According to Visa, the year of 2015 has been definitely the year of the blockchain.
Coinsilium, a blockchain investment services provider, has started stock trading on the ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange in London.
While R3 CEV blockchain consortium attracts new members, Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne warns that the initiative can stifle innovation.
Research company Aite Group predicts bank will invest around $400 million in the blockchain technology within the next few years.
Thus R3 project has just grown up to 42 members – the world’s largest and most influential banks.