Blockchain

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.

Success with blockchain does not depend on new technology alone. It requires bringing together experts in people, process and technology to simplify complex processes and apply tested methods to the new technical landscape, writes Michael Goodman, senior director of data and analytics for NTT Data Services.

The quick fall of AriseBank, a would-be blockchain bank; a CFPB buffeted by court rulings and policy shifts; U.S. Bancorp's Super Bowl play; and more.

The nation’s two largest banks don't want the credit risk associated with the transactions.

Long Blockchain Corp. is taking a step back from crypto — only about six weeks after it got into it.

Readers react to a clash between Mick Mulvaney and Richard Cordray, opine on how quickly Congress can move financial services legislation, slam calls for increased bank consolidation and more.

Regulatory scrutiny of Tether and Bitfinex is spooking investors, though others argue the industry remains strong.

AriseBank said it was the first crypto platform to buy a traditional bank. But there’s no evidence it did anything of the kind — and its founder now says it has been raided by the FBI.

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says roughly $400 million of the digital currency NEM was stolen. If banks and others are to invest in the digital-asset industry, it will have to do better.

SEC, CFTC heads say cyber markets “show little or no regard” for regulation; Dimon and Blankfein say president’s policies help the economy and their businesses.

Plans by IDT and MercuryFX to test XRP for cross-border payments are another vote of confidence for Ripple’s products.