Resona, one of three Japanese banks working with SBI Holdings and Ripple on their blockchain app Money Tap, is pulling out of the project.
The blockchain startup Nimiq has just joined the ranks of WEG Bank AG shareholders like TokenPay and the Litecoin Foundation.
A new Puerto Rico-based financial institution catering to traders of cryptocurrency has opened for business.
Online banking group Swissquote is launching a custody service that will see crypto keys stored in an ex-military bunker.
The China Banking Association, the country’s self-regulatory organization for the banking sector, has launched a new blockchain-based platform for trade finance.
Revolut, provider of a mobile finance app that offers crypto trading, has been granted a banking license from the European Central Bank.
Four European banks, including Commerzbank and ING, have settled a live commercial paper transaction worth €100,000 on R3's Corda blockchain.
State Street bank says there's no sense of urgency yet from clients for it to move into safeguarding crypto assets.
Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane shared his approach to serving the cryptocurrency industry with bankers at the Block FS conference.
CLS, the bank-owned currency trading utility, and IBM have gone live with their blockchain-based payment netting service after more than two years in development.
Nine Japanese banks are teaming up to trial a blockchain-based inter-bank settlement system using Fujitsu technology.
During Ripple's annual Swell conference, CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced three firms that will use XRP in commercial cross-border payments.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly dropped plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk, for now at least.
Japanese digital services firm GMO Internet has just launched a new web bank that it says will soon use blockchain to facilitate payments.
A much-talked-about deal between a cryptocurrency non-profit and a bank saw cheers and jeers this week, and all sorts of reactions in between.