Healthcare blockchain firm Hashed Health raises $1.85M in initial funding round
Feb 08, 2017 04:24 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain startup Hashed Health, a consortium for transformation in the U.S. healthcare system, announced that it has raised $1.85 million in an initial funding round led by healthcare investment firm Martin...
IBM launches blockchain trade finance initiative in Dubai
Feb 07, 2017 10:34 am UTC| Digital Currency
Amid the push for blockchain technology in Dubai, IBM has launched a trade finance blockchain initiative in collaboration with Dubai CustomsandDubai Trade, Emirates NBD, du, Aramex, and Banco Santander, IBTimes UK...
Bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos to keynote at Blockchain Africa Conference 2017
Feb 07, 2017 09:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain Africa Conference that will be held in Johannesburg on 1-3 March 2017, has announced technologist and serial entrepreneur, Andreas M Antonopoulos as its keynote speaker. The conference announced earlier in...
Feb 07, 2017 05:13 am UTC| Fintech
Frances central bank is testing blockchain technology and opening a lab to work with startups, François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, said. Speaking at the Paris FinTech Forum last month,...
Credit Suisse completes global blockchain hackathon using R3’s Corda
Feb 07, 2017 04:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
Swiss bank Credit Suisse recently held a global hackathon in which teams explored how R3s Corda distributed ledger platform could help in cost savings and efficiency applications. According to the hackathon details on...
Reinsurance company SCOR tests blockchain PoC, joins B3i consortium
Feb 06, 2017 10:36 am UTC| Digital Currency
SCOR, a global reinsurance company, announced that it has successfully tested and pleased with the results of a Technical Accounting Blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC) that was launched last year in a move to access the...
Hawaiian legislators propose establishing digital currency and blockchain working group
Feb 06, 2017 06:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
Two Hawaiian politicians have submitted a bill that proposes setting up of a working group dedicated to digital currency and blockchain technology. According to CoinDesk, Democratic Reps Chris Lee and Mark Nakashima...
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