BNP Paribas processes real-time blockchain payments for Panini Group and Amcor
Dec 21, 2016 12:51 pm UTC| Digital Currency
BNP Paribas, the French multinational bank, and financial services company, announced that it has completed its first real-time blockchain payments and has processed various live payments for two of its longstanding...
Blockchain – not fit for financial markets
Dec 21, 2016 10:26 am UTC| Fintech
For a discipline that is supposedly rational, finance has had its fair share of irrational crazes. For example, the dotcom bubble and the collateralized debt obligation craze that led to the global financial crisis. The...
Innovation Ignition Competition invites blockchain projects for healthcare
Dec 21, 2016 10:08 am UTC| Digital Currency
Innovation Ignition Competition launched by Telehealth and Medicine Today, has called for projects that usetechnologies like blockchain, AI, sensors, AR robotics, among others, for application in thehealthcare...
E-commerce giant Overstock secures $10.9m through blockchain stock issuance
Dec 21, 2016 08:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
Online retail giant Overstock.com, Inc.last week announced the closing of its rights offering of Blockchain Voting Series A Preferred Shares and Voting Series B Preferred Shares. This offering is historic in that we...
Blockchain firm Factom releases next version of software ‘Factom Federation network’
Dec 21, 2016 06:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Factom, a blockchain-based data management solution, has announced the release of the next version of its software Factom Federation network. The company spent past years in developing and testing its decentralized and...
MapR founder predicts blockchain as big data technology in 2017
Dec 21, 2016 06:08 am UTC| Digital Currency
John Schroeder, executive chairman and founder of MapR Technologies has identified blockchain as a new big data technology among six big data predictions for 2017. According to his predictions, blockchain transforms...
Banque de France performs interbank blockchain experiment
Dec 20, 2016 05:44 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Banque de France, the central bank of France, has announced that it is conducting an interbank blockchain experiment. The French bank said in the release that earlier in July, it tested the blockchain technology on...
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