The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed a plan to issue a bond over a blockchain system in collaboration with a major world issuer.
In a patent application released by the USPTO, money manager UBS indicated it was considering using smart contracts to validate transactions.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said it's to early for the bank to consider a bitcoin strategy as it "doesn't feel like a store of value."
BBVA has utilized blockchain platform Waves to conduct a live international trade transaction trial between Spain and Mexico.
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has become the first Austrian banking group to join the R3 distributed ledger consortium.
The State Bank of India is planning to beta launch smart contracts and blockchain-based know-your-customer processes.
Financial firms including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have carried out equity swaps over a DLT system.
A number of banks have joined the recently announced blockchain-based trade network pilot jointly set up by Hong Kong and Singapore.
Bitcoin's astonishing price rally this year continues to attract skeptics, including the CIO of Japan Post Bank.
American Express just had its "Charles Lindbergh moment," using Ripple's blockchain to connect Santander clients in Europe and the U.S.
Unlike money in the bank, cryptocurrency can't be unilaterally seized by governments, clawing back a modicum of power for the individual.
A new report from the Monetary Authority of Singapore details the second phase of its "Project Ubin" blockchain project.
Brazil's central bank is now moving to increase the quantity of its blockchain work – months after abandoning the effort.
Cryptocurrency use could give U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions an excuse to crack down on state-legal pot firms, an industry lawyer warns.
Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat has predicted that state-sponsored digital currencies will arise from the threat posed by bitcoin.