FINTECH

IBTimes spoke to Dash taxers Node40, AML-conscious Bitcoin payments company Payment21, and FCA sandbox stars Billon.

ZrCoin is backed by Zirconium Dioxide, a key industrial material which can now be produced using green technologies.

Qtum started the first day off fast, selling $10 million of its tokens in 90 minutes.

The Tel Aviv-based company combines advanced cryptography, parallel computing and blockchain technology.

IBM makes number of blockchain announcements at InterConnect in Las Vegas.

IBM and R3 talk about competing and collaborating on industrial-grade financial blockchain integrations.

The foundation is funded with an endowment of 273,000 coins, worth almost $13m at today's prices.

Swift has previously resisted similar moves on other nations citing its political neutral policy.

The Blockchain Intellectual Property Council will be chaired by Marc Kaufman, Partner at Rimon Law.

IBTimes spoke to Dr Stephan Karpischek, founder, Etherisc at EDCON Ethereum developer event in Paris.

Symbiont is working with Orebits, which digitises gold on smart certificates.

In 2016, BTL announced it was working on cross-border remittances with Visa Europe's Innovation Hub, Visa Collab.

Robo-Advice may struggle long-term and perform poorly in times of downturn or market shocks like Brexit.

MultiChain announces Wolfram deal to offer zero-configuration private blockchain accessible in the Wolfram Cloud.

Qtum has released: 'Smart-Contract Value-Transfer Protocols on a Distributed Mobile Application Platform'.

Ten Ethereum companies launch Proof of Authority testnet after Ropsten suffered a DoS attack on Feb 24.

A pilot involved the shipping of Schneider Electric goods from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark.

Factom's Harmony data layer enables storing hashes of paper documents on private and public blockchains.

IBTimes spoke to Rouven Heck, project lead of uPort, the award-winning Ethereum blockchain identity system.

Day 2: Data science event looked at open source software and the fintech approach.

Day 1: IBT Media's data science and finance event looked at alternative data sets and natural language processing.

Project welcomed 11 new members, bringing the current tally to 122.

The Chamber of Digital Commerce will unveil Blockchain in Securitization White Paper at SFIG 2017 in Las Vegas.

Skry can detect anomalies like a DDoS attack or a spike in transactions fees on both public and private chains.

Monax is re-licensing its blockchain client to Apache 2.0 and proposing it to Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee for incubation.

IBTimes UK and Newsweek host their first Data Science in Capital Markets event in the London.

Dr Carsten Stöcker of the innogy Innovation Hub explores IOTA for the machine economy.

Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) gathered AML experts discuss how regtech can fight financial crime.

RavenPack will be at the Newsweek conference on AI and Data Science in Capital Markets in London.