dLoc combines Smart Cosmos IoT platform, and its near-field communication (NFC) transponders with the blockchain.

The financial giant was a founding member of the blockchain research venture.

IBTimes speaks to Todd McDonald from R3, Dr Lee Braine from Barclays, and Sean Murphy from Norton Rose Fulbright.

EDC has completed its Supernode installation and partnered with data centre giant Equinix.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding is set to fill an urgent need in developing nations.

The CryptoSeal tamper-evident adhesive seal strips will work well for pharmaceutical tracking.

Cecilia Skingsley, deputy governor of Riksbank says: 'We cannot wait any longer.'

Australia-based ChronoBank has connections to a number or recruitment firms.

Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore Exchange and eight major banks are involved in the project.

Bitnation's Smart Love will feature among the projects on the EtherCamp hackathon starting 17 November.

Two industry leaders are partnering to make buying digital cash easier and less expensive.

The platform is currently being piloted by an international banking group and a central bank, and being assessed by an airline.

Melonport is working with Parity and Wood's Polkadot multi-chain network.

John McAfee told IBTimes UK the operation will expand further in 2017.

In 2014, Tezos proposed a blockchain offering a voting procedure for stakeholders to approve amendments.

BBVA, CIBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Natixis, Nordea, Northern Trust, Société Générale, UBS and US Bank worked on the KYC system.

National Settlement Depository is working with iCoinSoft as part of the blockchain-focused fintech programme.

Blockchain will 'change the culture of the world', says renowned cyber expert

Coloured coins specialist Colu has been part of local digital currency experiments in Barbados, Brazil and Israel.

The R3 Asia Lab will host a dedicated research and development centre as well as a physical Centre of Excellence.

Blockchain remittance specialist Epiphyte is testing its technology in the FCA's sandbox.

Unocoin, the largest Bitcoin trading platform in India, recently raised $1.5m and partnered with Blockstream.

Rootstock has also officially unveiled its smart contracts based platform at laBITconf, Argentina.

Richard Crook, head of Innovation Engineering at RBS talks about a cross border payment system using distributed ledger technology.

Regulators are 'acutely aware' of the need to monitor for financial innovation.

Srinivasan Sriram, CEO of Skuchain, begins a series of interviews about his vision for the future of supply chains.