FINANCE & BANKING

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.

Day at Consensus in NYC included how to avoid enterprise software hype cycles and banking collapses.

Deloitte also announced blockchain partnerships with Bloq, Stellar and BlockCypher.

Delaware Governor Jack Markell spoke about the blockchain initiative being built by Symbiont.

Using BTC Relay means developers can implement a 'Pay with Bitcoin' button in their Ethereum-based Dapps.

Governance of Bitcoin was riding high with news that Dr Craig Wright has reiterated that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Move by fund significant as it owns almost every major listed company in the world.

The startup has released a white paper and welcomed some talent to the team from PayPal, Visa and Morgan Stanley.

An 8.2% rise in manageable DROs recorded, as threshold for pre-bankruptcy alternative increases.

Some have speculated The DAO token sale could garner as much as $100m worth of ether.

The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar, featuring foreword by Vitalik Buterin is forthcoming from Wiley.

DigixGlobal's DigixDAO DGD tokens are being added to fully regulated Gatecoin from 29 April.

Barry Silbert's DCG has added Western Union to its investment team and funds run by Prudential and Foxconn.

Credits is partnering with Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, to deliver Blockchain-as-a-Service to UK public sector orgs.

The National Settlement Depository prototype is based on the NXT distributed cryptographic platform.