Distributed ledger technology

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.

The MyCUID product is intended to help membes protect against fraud and identity theft by creating a lifetime "portable digital identity" not dependent on any central authority.

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.

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

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.

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

Fears about regulators coming down on digital currency trading caused an epic crash in the market. But reining in this evolving asset class won't be easy.

The stratospheric rise of bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other cryptocurrencies in recent months may be only the beginning.

The famed investment bank is set to become the first major Wall Street bank to make markets in digital currencies such as bitcoin.

The blockchain startup continues to pack its board with mainstream finance experts.

With Wall Street on board, investors look to spend coins on real estate or through bitcoin debit cards.

Rather than forming a consortium of peers to investigate blockchain technology, as many banks have done, one of the world's largest asset managers is acting on its own.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

It’s been month after month of record-breaking, confounding growth for the cryptocurrency, accompanied by regular warnings from banks about bubble speculation.

A recent CU Journal article misses a crucial point about credit unions and distributed-ledger technology.

Japan’s bitFlyer is expanding to the American market, even as U.S. banks remain wary of cryptocurrencies.

The digital-currency startup, which markets software to banks, appears keen to signal that it wants to play by the rules.