News Topic: Blockchain

Signature Bank on Jan. 1 will open its Signet Platform to support real-time settlement for commercial payments. The bank is collaborating with truDigital Holdings, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure, exchange and settlement technology company. ... Read full article

Prometheum may succeed whether others have failed because it has attempted to work closely with regulators. ... Read full article

An accusation of sexual discrimination plays out in court for BNP Paribas; Jeffries’ top execs chastise Wall Street men over #MeToo paranoia; blockchain startup loses Blythe Masters; and RBS might make history with a female CEO-CFO duo. ... Read full article

Bank hit, but CEO Jes Staley escapes NYS fine for trying to unmask a whistleblower; Malaysia will pursue criminal complaints against Goldman in other countries. ... Read full article

Many banks and government officials are dubious about crypto, but Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel lets businesses pay their taxes with it and has put all the state government’s expenses on a public ledger. ... Read full article

A new unit of the nonprofit tech-development foundation is getting banks of all sizes to work together on cutting-edge software projects that could benefit the entire industry. ... Read full article

Even the best technologies take time, making it necessary to rein in expectations about what will happen and won't happen in the coming year. ... Read full article

Blockchain backers concede the hype is turning off bankers; Mulvaney's CFPB name change could cost industry millions of dollars; the one banking bill Congress might actually pass next term; and more from this week's most-read stories. ... Read full article

To convince skeptical bankers about the benefits of distributed ledger technology, some suggest it needs to be separated from the volatile digital currency it underlies. ... Read full article

Ron Quaranta and Steve Ehrlich with the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance share what’s working and what’s not with financial services blockchain projects. ... Read full article

Andrew Keys, co-founder of the venture capital firm ConsenSys Capital, has a vision of the future bankers might find chilling, in which banks and other middlemen are cut out of financial services. ... Read full article

BBVA, BNP Paribas and MUFG recently used BBVA's blockchain to reach an agreement within 24 hours — instead of two weeks — to lend a Spanish power company $150 million. ... Read full article

The former Goldman CEO is said to be the unnamed executive at a meeting with Asian financier; the bank faces multibillion-dollar penalties in two countries. ... Read full article

The head of the agency developing the special-purpose federal license said the process is moving forward “independent” of legal challenges mounted by state regulators. ... Read full article

The credit card company's filings mirror patents Bank of America, Barclays and TD Bank have submitted in the past two years that focus on how funds transfers and data security would augment blockchain technology. ... Read full article

The bank, one of the few that do business with digital currency exchanges like Coinbase, has developed methods for monitoring all customers’ digital currency purchases. ... Read full article

The 25-year JPM veteran will pursue an opportunity elsewhere; private equity firms have a record $57 billion to loan for real estate. ... Read full article

Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of Hyperledger, explains why Hyperledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance have joined each other’s organizations.  ... Read full article