Blockchain startup Ciphrex appoints VC expert Alyse Killeen to board of advisors
Mar 03, 2017 06:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ciphrex Corp., a San Diego-based blockchain company, has announced the appointment of Alyse Killeen, an experienced venture capitalist and one of the earliest investors in the bitcoin ecosystem, to its Board of...
Deutsche Börse fintech venture fund seeks to invest in blockchain, AI, machine learning
Mar 03, 2017 05:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
Deutsche Brse Group said that its new dedicated fintech venture fund DB1 is seeking to make investments in 2017, focusing on blockchain startups and other companies that use technologies like machine learning to rebuild...
AlphaPoint completes blockchain proof of technology with Canada’s Scotiabank
Mar 03, 2017 05:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
AlphaPoint, a blockchain solutionand digital asset exchange software, has announced the completion of a successful proof of technology with Canadas Scotiabank by leveraging AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform...
Blockchain fund TaaS appoints international banking and marketing experts to advisory board
Mar 03, 2017 04:31 am UTC| Digital Currency
TaaS, which describes itself as the first ever tokenized closed end fund (CEF) dedicated to blockchain assets, has announced the appointment of global banking expert Patrick Salm and marketing consultant Pascal M Bommeli...
Over 40 Japanese banks complete pilot implementation of Ripple blockchain
Mar 02, 2017 11:56 am UTC| Digital Currency
SBI Ripple Asia, a joint venture between blockchain technology provider Ripple and SBI Holdings, has announced that 47 Japanese banks have successfully completed a pilot implementation of Ripple in Japan with the help of...
WISeKey to set up Blockchain/IoT Center of Excellence in Rwanda
Mar 02, 2017 10:12 am UTC| Digital Currency
Swiss-based WISeKey International Holding Ltd announced its partnership with theRepublic of Rwanda in order to establish a Blockchain/IoT Center of Excellence in Rwanda. The announcement was made during WISeKeys...
PwC creates blockchain proof of concept for London insurance market
Mar 02, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
Big four auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), announced that it has created a blockchain prototype for the London Market Target Operating Model (TOM) Innovation Exchange that demonstrates cost reduction and speeding...
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