FINANCE & BANKING

GTEC handed out €50,000 in prizes to winners Arcade City, CargoChain, Clipperz and Helperbitz.

CEO Thorsten Peisl: 'Transparency, the great benefit of blockchain, is an obstacle for financial services in particular.'

The Microsoft founder has shared his reading tips for this summer on LinkedIn for those struggling to find a book.

SSE facing tough market conditions amid stiff competition.

Swarm, the decentralised file storage and distribution solution, has just released its orange paper.

Around 22% of the insurer's shareholders voted against its 2015 remuneration report.

Regulator calls for cap on unarranged overdraft fees and warnings for customers before they are overdrawn.

CAF's Donation States study compares the way tax incentives for charitable donations are offered across the world.

IPsoft's virtual agent technology is aimed at banking, insurance and travel industries.

Prime minister issues latest pro-EU plea as the campaigning intensifies ahead of 23 June.

Professor Jonathan Fisher QC is financial crime expert and professor at the London School of Economics.

Jeremy Sosabowski PhD, CEO & co-founder, AlgoDynamix, talks about identifying endogenous portfolio risk.

Public Accounts Committee warns pension freedoms could trigger a fresh mis-selling scandal in Britain.

Haydn Shaughnessy's latest book, Platform Disruption Wave, takes fintech to unprecedented geopolitical levels.

Ether (ETH) is the native token of the Ethereum, used to power applications on the Ethereum blockchain.

Abu Dhabi fund says it will seek full indemnity from both 1MDB and Minister of Finance over the payment.

Electoral Commission says 'leave' groups have raised £700,000 more than pro-EU campaigns.

More than 80% of UK CFOs are worried by uncertainty as hiring expectations fall.

Lisk, which raised $6.5m in a crowdsale, 'is an app store for peer-to-peer apps for a blockchain or its sidechains'.

Ukraine's Distributed Lab launched the eAuction platform in February with Oschadbank, PrivatBank and Microsoft.

Exclusive: IBTimes interviews David Rutter, the boss of banking technology consortium R3CEV.

SWIFT Institute conducted interview and focus groups with 75 technology and post-trade processing companies.

The UK can reduce corruption as it has sovereignty over a third of the world's tax havens.

Both WAVES and Mycelium are in the middle of crowdfunding campaigns.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority concurs with IIF's warning.

Some $200m worth of new 'bond notes' will be unveiled to ease acute shortage of hard currency.

IBTimes spoke to Adam Ludwin, co-founder and CEO of Chain.com at Consensus 2016 conference in New York City.

Bangladesh Bank officials claimed that both the NY Fed and Swift bear some of the responsibility for the heist.

Societe Generale said its net income increased 6.5% in the first quarter of 2016 to €924m.