Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – October 6th, 2017
Oct 06, 2017 10:06 am UTC| Digital Currency
CFTC questions cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on ethers June flash crash The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested information from leading digital asset exchange company Coinbase regarding a flash...
Bank of Canada, R3 publish whitepaper on blockchain research initiative ‘Project Jasper’
Oct 06, 2017 09:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Bank of Canada and enterprise software firm R3 have released a white paper on Project Jasper a Canadian experiment with distributed ledger technology (DLT) for domestic interbank payments settlement. The paper...
Air France explores blockchain potential for aircraft maintenance processes
Oct 06, 2017 06:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
Air France is exploring blockchain potential for the management of replacement parts on in-service airplanes, Aviation Today reported. Air France KLMs engineering and maintenance division is using its MRO Lab to...
Bank AlJazira teams up with ShoCard for blockchain identity management solution
Oct 06, 2017 06:00 am UTC| Digital Currency
Saudi Arabia-based Bank AlJazira , has partnered with ShoCard and Ateon to enhance its services, protect clients information, and avoid fraud. The partners are working to launch the first-of-its-kind use case in the...
Vinny Lingham’s Newtown Partners invests in blockchain startup Wala
Oct 06, 2017 05:14 am UTC| Digital Currency
Newtown Partners, a VC firm founded by Llew Claasen and Vinny Lingham, has made an equity investment in blockchain startup Wala. Founded in 2015, Wala is a blockchain-powered financial services platform for the unbanked...
Oct 06, 2017 04:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
InfoCorp Technologies and Maybank Singapore have signed an MOU to provide financial inclusion to the unbanked in Singapore and the wider ASEAN region. Under this MOU, the first project to be launched will be InfoCorps...
Fujitsu, KPMG and 14 new members join Blockchain Research Institute
Oct 05, 2017 10:58 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a Canada-based blockchain research initiative led Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, has announced the addition of 16 new organisations as its founding members. With this, BRIs founding...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects