Blockchain

American Express' blockchain patent application isn't just about payments: It could also radically change how card-based merchant offers are made and allow them to become much more targeted.

Two payments startups, PayStand and Quadpay, are collaborating with Silicon Valley Bank and First Data during a four-month accelerator program to explore mutual product development opportunities.

The research, carried out in coordination with the all-party U.K. parliamentary group on blockchain, profiles companies, think tanks, innovation hubs and individual players in the U.K.

Since blockchain technology is based on the core principle of decentralization, it provides an opportunity to break through the multiple middleman fees with an alternative low-fee digital payments network, writes Sarthak Moghe, CEO of TillBilly.

Citigroup is using tracking and transparency to push back against rivals that paint traditional bank-powered international payments as a costly, time-consuming relic.

Mastercard has become the latest major card network to suffer a high profile crash. With its Thursday incident coming hard on the heels of Visa’s crash last month many experts wonder if blockchain technology could prevent future card network outages.

High-powered portfolio simulations, security and client communication are among the most promising possibilities, say tech leaders at Morgan Stanley, D-Wave and Clovyr.

Panelists: Amber Baldet, Co-founder, CEO, Clovyr; Vern Brownell, CEO, D-Wave; Salvatore Cucchiara, Head of Wealth Management Technology, Morgan Stanley; Aaron Spradlin, Co-Founder & CEO, cleverDome, Inc.

The consortium's Corda Enterprise is designed to let blockchain applications exist behind a company’s firewall but still interact with outside partners.

The film industry may be setting new box office records this year, but it still struggles with how to adapt its distribution methods for a digital audience. That's where blockchain — the distributed ledger technology originally developed for bitcoin — plays a starring role.