FINANCE & BANKING

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.

Clearmatics and OpenGamma demonstrated a proof-of-concept real-time FX swaps using blockchain technology.

Woori Bank customers in South Korea can avail this facility.

Najib's Press Secretary insists WSJ has got its facts wrong again as war of words continue.

Consult Hyperion's David Birch quizzed Nasdaq's Fredrik Voss at European Blockchain Congress in London.

EdgeVerve Systems, a product subsidiary of Infosys, designed the EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework.

Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China's opening with India and Africa.