FINANCE & BANKING

Lamont warned that the EU is at risk of buckling under the weight of distressed lenders.

South Africa's Strate and Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD), signed a Letter of Intent at Sibos, Geneva.

Symbiont and financial services technology and data partner Ipreo created Synaps Loans LLC.

So-called 'Uber for fund management' becomes third largest fintech crowdsale ever.

Sam Pearse, Partner at Pillsbury Law, talks about the Australian Stock Exchange's blockchain plans.

Project validated blockchain-inspired technology for trading, matching and settlement.

Japan is combining its idol culture with cryptocurrency in order to teach people about the blockchain.

'Numerous extrajudicial killings' in the Philippines have prompted S&P to issue a warning over the country's credit rating.

Sberbank CTO Pavel Khodalev talked about central bank support for blockchain strategy.

Ethereum's founder says attackers are laying siege to its network, causing it to slow down greatly.

R3's Tim Swanson and John Whelan of Santander Blockchain Labs talk about challenges and opportunities for banking consortia.

BlockApps and ConsenSys made the announcement at the Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai.

S&P says overseas infrastructure funding could decline while the government's hands are tied.

The Linux Foundation/Hyperledger Project and IBM took to the stage at Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai.

The uPort digital identity system beat off tough competition from Digix Global, Cosmos and Decentralized Capital.

Gulf Keystone CEO Jón Ferrier says the restructuring programme will pave the way for relaunching the company.

Demo day at International Blockchain Week in Shanghai was kicked off by IBM and Hyperledger Project.

London is the second-largest offshore renminbi clearing centre, but the rise of the Chinese currency threatens its FX dominance.

A slew of announcements around private blockchains came from banks and 'big four' players.

Both companies issued the warning in their trading update published on 21 September.

Ethereum designer Alex Van de Sande showed off Mist light client and how it works with Swarm.

In 2013, the tech giant's board had authorised a buyback plan that was of the same $40bn size.

Microsoft blockchain lead Marley Gray explains how Ethereum will reach enterprise in secure and scalable fashion.

The first use case of the Santander project to back tokens on Ethereum via bank accounts will be micropayments.

More than a million cases of card, cheque, phone and online fraud were recorded in the first half of 2016.

2nd day of DevCon had firm focus on security with Joseph Chow and Raine Revere taking to the stage.

Zcash developer Zooko Wilcox talked about how the soon-to-launch privacy blockchain will connect with Ethereum.

Ethereum DevCon 2 got underway in Shanghai with focus on security and smart contracts.

Dr Richard Windsor of Radio Free Mobile predicts a Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent battle for Chinese Digital Life.