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
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 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
Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of Hyperledger, explains why Hyperledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance have joined each other’s organizations. ... Read full article
The Pittsburgh bank joins Bank of America and other large financial players in a distributed-ledger network that seeks to make global payments in real time. ... Read full article
Banks should continually try out new technologies, even after failed experiments. ... Read full article
The consortium's Corda Enterprise is designed to let blockchain applications exist behind a company’s firewall but still interact with outside partners. ... Read full article
The credit card issuer has built a distributed ledger through which merchants create their own membership rewards and get access to detailed information on purchases and the success of promotions. ... Read full article
JPMorgan Chase is sending signals that its homegrown blockchain, Quorum, is alive and well despite a recent shake-up. ... Read full article
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked 13 cryptocurrency exchanges for detailed information about their operations as part of a "fact-finding inquiry." ... Read full article
Software firm MonetaGo and three Indian factoring exchanges have launched a blockchain that can identify invoices that have already been loaned against. ... Read full article
Becoming a member Hyperledger fits Ripple’s ideal of allowing different blockchains or distributed ledgers to communicate with each other. ... Read full article
A startup called Spring Labs has launched a blockchain network with the goal of getting lenders and data providers to share data to help verify customers' identity. ... Read full article
JPMorgan Chase is said to be dropping its Quorum blockchain technology, and little is happening with other blockchain projects that have been in the works for years. What gives? ... Read full article
Employees at the second-largest Indian bank falsified documents in a scheme that ultimately cost the institution at least $2 billion. Some argue a distributed ledger would have helped prevent or minimize the fraud. ... Read full article
The bank’s distributed ledger for private equity deals can now provide nodes to auditors, so they can easily access documents and data for their annual reviews. ... Read full article
