Parmesan cheese to bottle caps - alternative currencies in the age of Bitcoin and Apple Pay
Banco Emiliano accepts Pamesan cheese as collateral for a loan and holds $187m worth of cheese in its vault.
Estonia's LHV Bank and ChromaWay win Innovation Award 2016 for blockchain app
Cuber uses the coloured coins protocol pioneered by ChromaWay to transact tokens representing euros.
WAVES raises $2m in 24 hours in bid to take on permissioned blockchains
The WAVES open blockchain crowdfund briefly DDoS'd its servers as money poured in.
Debenhams reports 5.5% earnings hike as CEO Michael Sharp bows out
Sharp, who announced last October that he would be stepping down in 2016, formally submitted his resignation.
Airbnb has no plans to move into blockchain
An article about Airbnb hiring Bitcoin engineers from ChangTip raised speculation about the firm's blockchain plans.
How Bitcoin will smash Donald Trump's Mexican remittance wall
Eco-friendly Bitcoin mining company Genesis Mining is known for raising crypto awareness with poster campaigns.
Do high frequency trading algorithms create more volatility than humans?
IBTimes UK spoke to Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam at UCLA, an expert on stock market activity and behavioural finance.
Overstock's Patrick Byrne: I feel the blockchain revolution is my victory
Byrne's t0 project is the only effort that has brought the spirit of Bitcoin and real decentralisation to capital markets.
Power to the people - the blockchain's consumer energy revolution begins in New York
TransActive Grid, a joint-venture between ConsenSys and L03 Energy, goes live in New York with first paid transaction.
BNP Paribas smart contracts favourite CommonAccord makes its case
CommonAccord plans to 'open source' and automate the drafting of legal documents by creating a global template.
Credits launches beta of blockchain Platform-as-a-Service
Announcement from the Credits team was made at Money 20/20 Europe in Copenhagen.
R3's Richard Brown emphasises privacy of Corda project
The consortium of over 40 big banks sets out the key features of its distributed ledger design.
Will financial analysts lose their jobs to intelligent trading machines?
AI specialist Josh Sutton reveals the advantage of vast datasets for macro plays like oil.
Money 20/20 Europe: Blythe Masters highlights common standards to avoid 'Betamax' blockchain
CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, warns blockchains could be equivalent of Betamax v VHS.
BitGold Business Accounts expands payroll, invoicing and checkout solutions
BitGold launched the new services at Money 20/20 Europe in Copenhagen this week.
Bitcoin graduate Circle launches free social payment app in UK with Barclays
It's the first time the FCA has granted an E-Money Issuer licence for cross-border payments using blockchain.
BNP Paribas Securities Services takes crowdfunding to the blockchain with SmartAngels
Due to launch in the second half of 2016, the pilot scheme is subject to regulatory approvals.
Ethereum DevCon2 combined with Shanghai Blockchain Summit in September
The event with Wanxiang Blockchain Labs will take place at Shanghai's Hyatt on the Bund, September 19–24.
State of Delaware launches blockchain using Symbiont smart contracts
Governor Markell will reveal details of the Delaware Blockchain Initiative at Consensus 2016 in New York City.
Money 20/20 Europe: Data scientists are farmers and machine learning is statistics on steroids
A team of experts discussed the ways and means of machine learning at Money 2020 Europe in Copenhagen.
R3 banking blockchain consortium partners with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will provide cloud-based tools, services and infrastructure for R3 lab locations around the world,
Money 20/20 Europe: MasterCard's Ann Cairns working to include women from unbanked to boardroom
Ann Cairns, president, International Markets, MasterCard delivered a keynote at Money 20/20 Europe.
DigixGlobal hits month-long crowdsale target of $5.5m in just 12 hours
DigixGlobal the first organisation to run a fully on chain, decentralised crowdsale on Ethereum for DigixDAO.
3D printing, counterfeit pharma and crypto CCTV highlighted at Digital Catapult Blockchain Pitchoff
Creative Barcode, Blockverify, Smoogs and Bitnation took part in quick pitch sponsored by Visa Europe Collab.
Microsoft adds Ethereum language Solidity to Visual Studio
Integration to be formally revealed at //Build, San Francisco, March 29th-April 2nd by Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin.
Bank of Russia uses machine learning to identify unlicensed money lenders
Custom algorithm developed by Yandex – Russia's answer to Google – helped reveal 2,500 suspicious finance sites.
Digix Global announces commencement of DigixDAO crowdsale
The commencement and duration of of DigixDAO is: 30th March 2016, GMT 00:00 to 28th April 2016, GMT 23:59.
ICAP's Jenny Knott explains practical post-trade blockchain approach
ICAP's smart contract proof of technology also heralded a partnership with new blockchain builder Axoni.
IBM blockchain leader Jerry Cuomo using 'shadowchains' to launch moonshots
IBM's blockchain tsar Jerry Cuomo also discussed the Hyperledger project and recent R3 commercial paper challenge.
Ethereum-based KYC platform Cetas added to Microsoft Azure blockchain cloud
Cetas developer Algorythmix said the system 'maintains an apt balance between AML and privacy laws'.
