The U.S. state of Wyoming has passed several bills aimed to make the state a top destination for cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses.
While crypto-land is abuzz about JPMorgan’s plan to move dollars via blockchain, a smaller New York bank is already doing this.
Sources in Iran say the country's financial sector is taking clear steps toward a state-backed token economy.
An HSBC executive has told Reuters that using blockchain slashed the costs of settling foreign exchange trades.
JPMorgan has built a crypto token and it's moving to real-world trials in "a few months," according to a CNBC report.
James Powell, CIO and CTO of engineering at Digital Asset, has left the enterprise blockchain startup after just six months.
Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is launching a high-throughput blockchain-based payments network next year.
The Series B funding was led by seasoned VC firm Accel and included investment from Benchmark, which led the firm's $16m Series A.
A U.K. school won third place in a blockchain interoperability hackathon hosted by Clearmatics at the Barclays Rise fintech hub in London.
A Bank of Korea study concluded that a central bank digital currency could adversely affect commercial banks and ultimately financial stability.
Four Iranian banks have reportedly teamed up with a blockchain startup to launch a gold-backed cryptocurrency called “PayMon.”
Global banking payments network SWIFT says it plans a trial integration with DLT provider R3.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are hoping a shared digital currency can cut remittance costs between the two countries.
JPMorgan Chase has said that cryptocurrencies would only have value when confidence in traditional assets had been lost.
R3 is carrying out an internal reorganization, resulting in the departures of head of global services Brian McNulty and chief administrative officer Lauren Carroll, CoinDesk has learned.