Blockchain

Accenture has agreed to acquire First Annapolis Consulting in an effort to add payments expertise in several international markets.

Brave, founded by JavaScript creator and former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, intends to issue a cryptocurrency to fund the development of a new way to buy and view digital ads.

The Justice Department believes that Pyongyang was behind last year's New York Fed heist; Marcus Schenck, DB's CFO and deputy CEO, may be next in line to head the big German bank.

Canadian banks hope to create an environment where consumers have more control over who is able to view their personal data.

It is easy for banks to get caught up in what appears innovative but ends up being for show.

BloqLabs, created by the startup Bloq, wants to help developers get their projects in front of enterprise clients.

The ICO fundraising model has already yielded more than $230 million for startups.

If the Federal Reserve and other central banks began issuing their own digital currencies, they could benefit consumers, boost the economy and fight financial crime. But not without risks to cybersecurity, individual privacy — and possibly bank profits.

Companies that fail to understand blockchain and distributed ledger technologies risk making expensive missteps.

You may not know it by looking at bitcoin’s recent price surge, but the infrastructure underpinning the world’s most popular virtual currency is teetering.

The question is more than academic. At stake is the role blockchain technology can play in lowering the costs of raising money.

San Francisco-based Align Commerce, which leverages blockchain and other technologies to enable cross-border payments for small- to midsize businesses, has rebranded itself as Veem and landed $24 million in funding to expand its operations.

A previously unreleased paper lays out the pros and cons for banks of technologies designed to restore confidentiality on shared ledgers.

Chinese financial-technology investments this year may exceed 2016’s record $10 billion as companies continue to raise funds for expansion and big banks grow their digital services, according to Accenture Plc.

Banks have signaled bullishness for blockchain tech. But some say ignorance is leading to ill-informed choices.

Bank blockchain leaders say the technology is solid and privacy's been solved mostly. They’re focused now on integration, collaboration and saving money.

The Canadian bank completed a months-long trial of technology developed by AlphaPoint, the tech startup said.

Banks have traditonally lagged behind in embracing innovation, though blockchain provides the opportunity to quickly ramp up digital services.

The effort to create an enterprise Ethereum could lead to robust private blockchains, but one of the key strengths of the project has to do with Ethereum’s roots as an open-source platform.

IBM's work with Northern Trust and Hyperledger and Microsoft's alliance with JPMorgan and others show the different approaches the tech giants are taking with the technology.