Blockchain

The bank’s distributed ledger for private equity deals can now provide nodes to auditors, so they can easily access documents and data for their annual reviews.

Doubling down on its surprise pivot to blockchain technology, the former parent company of Long Island Iced Tea—now Long Blockchain Corp.—is buying a U.K. tech firm specializing in distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrency.

How do you get to the top of the payments stack at one of the nation’s preeminent digital-forward banks? You reach for every challenging opportunity you see, according to Reetika Grewal, head of payments strategy and solutions at Silicon Valley Bank.

Federal Reserve warns that nonbank lenders pose risks to the financial system; Swift says the technology needs more work.

Ripple, the U.S. digital payments company, is working with 61 Japanese banks on an application that will enable customers to settle cash transfers instantly around the clock, the latest effort to apply blockchain technology in finance.

At CUNA’s GAC, one credit union leader explained that CUs need blockchain and distributed ledger technology now for the same reason they needed websites in the '90s -- even if the technology is confusing, it's going to be a big deal sooner than you think.

State-level support will give the digital assets industry much needed footing, said Caitlin Long, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley.

Banks are putting the concept of securities lending on a blockchain-inspired platform to the test.

Momentum is continuing unabated for blockchain projects and initial coin offerings as the potential for blockchain continues to be realized.

Process would protect taxpayers from bailing out failed banks; bank plans to raze its midtown Manhattan headquarters and build a 2.5 million sq. ft. edifice on the site.

As they cement major partnerships, launch overseas operations and court banks and other institutional investors, top cryptocurrency exchanges now see regulatory approval as a competitive advantage.

It would appear that momentum is continuing unabated for blockchain projects and ICOs (initial coin offerings), as the potential for blockchain continues to be realized.

Banks scrapped a plan to create a shared data bunker for customer data in favor of a backup buddy system. Some argue a move to blockchain should be next.

International officials are discovering they can sometimes avoid bank fees by replacing currency transfers with the technology at the heart of Bitcoin.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party is preparing legislation including possible tax breaks to attract companies using blockchain technology.

This week marks the return of a series of intensive, hands-on training sessions in distributed ledger technologies for credit union executives.

In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.

As billions of devices interact in trillions of transactions, autonomous payments will be required because there simply won’t be enough humans on earth to look at them all, writes Vaughan Emery, founder and CEO of Atonomi.

The heads of the Securities and Exchange and Commodity Futures Trading commissions said they are not ignoring the fast-growing cryptocurrency sector and they have some oversight powers. But they indicated that they might need more.

The blockchains that likely prove the most durable and widely used will likely be those that have most effectively developed scalable protocols, writes Xiahong Lin, founder of Bodhi.