FINANCE & BANKING

Credits beat off stiff competition from runnersup Clearmatics, Everledger and Provenance.

Poundland has said that the 99p stores chain takeover had put pressure on the core business.

IBTimes UK talks to Prof Eli Ben-Sasson of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology on the Zerocash project.

CEO Vytautas Karalevičius says cryptocurrency is a top option because of 'usage for actual payments'.

British prime minister says UK should not risk its financial health by voting to split from the EU.

Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.

The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.

The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.

Trading of DigixDAO tokens is expected to begin on Bittrex on Tuesday, June 14 at 17:00 UTC.

IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.

London could be overtaken by Singapore as an offshore financial centre within four years

Four easy ways for young people to invest in stocks and bonds.

WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.

The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.

Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.

Matthew Connolly and Gavin Campbell Black have been charged with conspiracy to manipulate Libor rates.

IATA expects combined airline profit to total $39.4bn in 2016 compared with an initial forecast of $36.3bn.

European Central Bank opts to keep the deposit rate at -0.40% and the headline rate at 0.00% as expected.

Bank of England to launch new £5 polymer banknotes on Thursday as paper notes are phased out after 320 years.

Labour leader will make another major intervention in the EU referendum campaign on 2 June.

UK house prices climb 0.2% month-on-month in May and 4.7% year-on-year, according to Nationwide.

However, Vote Leave chair and Labour MP Gisela Stuart claims the EU has been a 'disaster' for workers.

Samsung Pay is restricted to Galaxy phones at the moment.

Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote

Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, spoke to IBTimes UK about the claim.

The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.

The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.

IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).

Haydn Shaughnessy, author of Platform Disruption Wave, talks about China's platform-based global power play.