Blockchain

Alipay's deal to buy MoneyGram for $880 million may be the centerpiece of its strategy to expand beyond China's borders, but it's not its first move in recent months. The Alibaba payments affiliate has already extended its reach in several other ways.

Chinese's largest online payments company to get a footprint in the U.S.; Believers in blockchain bemoan the lack of global cooperation.

The fleet card provider WEX isn't sure how blockchain can help its business, but it's confident enough in the technology's promise to move forward.

Bank consortium R3 CEV, one of the most well-funded blockchain working groups, has endured criticism for its meticulous process. But if blockchains are most valuable with a network effect, maybe forgoing some agility is worth the long while.

The parent of Alipay is also investigating uses for biometrics and artificial intelligence.

Justin Newton, founder and CEO of Netki, discusses the barriers to commercialization of bitcoin, how his startup is trying to solve the problem, why private blockchains are useful and why public ones will eventually become more valuable.

HSBC has formed an advisory board to guide it on fintech, cybersecurity and IT infrastructure issues.

Host Brett King chats with TheFinanser.Com's Chris Skinner and American Banker's Penny Crosman. Then, Brett reports from the floor of the Computer Electronics Show, where he spoke to Guy Kawasaki, a VC who drives a semi-autonomous Mercedes.

The goal of Deloitte's new blockchain-focused lab in New York is to turn proofs of concepts into real solutions.

Credit union technology executives and analysts suggest the industry must collaborate to work on three primary areas: cybersecurity, data and business intelligence and digital-first strategies.

Axis Bank, one of India’s largest private-sector financial institutions, has reportedly become the first bank in the country to partner with Ripple for a blockchain-powered approach to cross-border payment.

The Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication is exploring the potential of distributed ledger technology for banks to provide real-time reconciliation of their databases for accounts they hold in other banks in a foreign currency.

SoftBank's big bet on next-generation tech; Supreme Court hears surcharge arguments

DTCC Moving to the Blockchain; Goldman hires Wiesel as tech chief; Donald Trump's team divided

Two clients of French bank BNP Paribas processed and cleared several live payments over the bank’s Cash Without Borders product.

The blockchain startup Axoni has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Wells Fargo and Euclid Opportunities, the fintech investment business of the interdealer brokerage ICAP.

In the headlong rush to revolutionize modern finance, blockchain enthusiasts are overlooking one potentially costly problem: their applications, built on open-source code, may actually belong to someone else.

When the financial services industry started paying attention to blockchain technology, many companies, seemingly as a reflex, sought patent protection for their ideas.

Sudden jolts in the currency market may be becoming more frequent, with at least three flash crashes over the course of 14 months. But there is some hope in finding out their causes more quickly.

Deloitte is looking to diversify beyond its "bread and butter" of professional service firms.