Blockchain tech could reduce banks' infrastructural costs by $15-20 billion a year by 2022, says a new report by Santander InnoVentures.
Smart contracts platform Symbiont has closed a $1.25m seed funding round. The company – which plans to issue smart securities on bitcoin’s blockchain later this year – received funds from investors including Duncan Niederauer, former CEO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Matt Andresen, former co-CEO of Citadel Derivatives Group. The startup grew out of the […]
Former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters says distributed ledgers will change the way the financial world operates. Speaking at the Exponential Finance conference in New York, Masters who joined bitcoin trading platform Digital Assets Holdings as CEO in March, said: “Distributed ledger technology does have the potential to be disruptive of certain business models. But it has […]
Banks need to understand blockchain technology, according to the chairman of the European Banking Association working group.
Following an investment in Ripple Labs, Seagate's senior vice president Dave Morton discusses why his firm is excited about blockchain technology.
A project led by a pioneering developer of an e-commerce security protocol was among the standouts at Blockchain University's second demo day.
This week, the media aimed to tackle bitcoin's biggest burning questions, but the results may have prompted more confusion than answers.
As the broad strokes of distributed ledger technologies gain traction, the art world is starting to pay attention.
The Euro Banking Association (EBA) has explored the short-term implications of blockchain technology in its most recent report.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc is reportedly exploring how a blockchain-based solution could change the way shares are transferred and sold manually. The company will trial the technology in Nasdaq Private Market, a capital marketplace launched in January 2014, which sets out to connect private companies and global investors, allowing the latter to purchase shares which […]
Fortune 500 financial services group USAA has created a team to study how blockchain technology could decentralize its operations.
CoinDesk has taken a look at the top bitcoin-related headlines from across the globe.
In this post, Richard G Brown develops an argument for replicated shared ledgers from first principles.
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Mariano Belinky, managing director of Santander InnoVentures discusses whether distributed ledgers have the potential to transform banking.