Articles by Ian Allison

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Spanish boy racks up €100,000 bill withGoogle

Google rewards credit card websites that use 'frightening' language about debt

Study by London-based artificial intelligence agency Artios notes that Google is acting as a 'regulator by proxy'.

Oct 26, 2016

Google

Jaxx blockchain wallet to Integrate Zcash

The integration is scheduled to come into effect a few days after the Zcash genesis block is mined (28 October).

Oct 25, 2016

Bitcoin

ConsenSys, Synechron and BlockApps collaborate on financial services blockchain applications

ConsenSys and BlockApps will gain access to Synechron's 6,000-person global team of specialised financial services consultants.

Oct 25, 2016

Bitcoin Ethereum

Capital One focuses on treasury management and healthcare with blockchain builder Gem

It is also partnered with healthcare API provider Pokitdok, invoicing app Viewpost and analytics provider ClearGraph.

Oct 25, 2016

Bitcoin

Synchrony Financial joins R3 distributed ledger consortium

Synchrony Financial is the first credit card company to join R3's consortium of more than 70 large financial institutions.

Oct 24, 2016

Bitcoin

Bitcoin price surges past $650 on back of Chinese mining conference

Many believe price is driven by Chinese speculators and investors returning to Bitcoin following the recent yuan devaluation.

Oct 23, 2016

Bitcoin

Big bank de-risking trend poses serious threat to UK fintech companies

Tony Craddock of the Emerging Payments Association discusses shortage of transaction banking services for fintechs and non-bank payments companies.

Oct 21, 2016

Barclays HSBC

R3 trials cross-border payments with Ripple's XRP

R3 said liquidity efficiencies and nostro consolidations can save banks up to 60% in payment processing costs with Ripple.

Oct 20, 2016

Bitcoin

'Decentralised' prediction platform removes financial analyst bias

CEO Mike Brusov offers hedge funds and traders monthly subscriptions to the decentralised prediction service.

Oct 20, 2016

Slock.it and innogy SE win 2016 German Mobility Award for P2P vehicle sharing project

The German Mobility Award is an exclusive, national recognition awarded to only ten projects out of 450 applications.

Oct 20, 2016

Bitcoin Ethereum

MIRACL delivering distributed trust and 'Zero-Factor Authentication'

Japan's NTT Software has just adopted MIRACL's Zero-Factor Authentication platform.

Oct 20, 2016

Bitcoin

Blockchain project wins Dutch international energy hackathon

Hackenergy 2016 was sponsored by ENGIE Nederland and Groningen's IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC).

Oct 19, 2016

Bitcoin

Blockchain and smart contracts firm Symbiont releases enterprise-ready ledger

Assembly was created as a standalone system with a simple API, rather than a feature of a larger software monolith.

Oct 18, 2016

Axoni delivers blockchain equity swaps with Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan

The smart contracts for equity swaps project also featured Thomson Reuters, IHS Markit and Capco.

Oct 18, 2016

Bitcoin Barclays

Blockchain real estate platform Ubitquity partners with Priority Title & Escrow

Ubitquity simplifies the process of tracking and recording property to enable a long-term chain of custody of title.

Oct 18, 2016

Bitcoin

Night of the Living DAO: Token sale breathes life into Ethereum Classic

The appetite for token sales certainly isn't waning, but not everyone is enthusiastic.

Oct 17, 2016

Ethereum

NXT's Ardor token distribution uses 'snapshot' of existing value in the network

Bas Wisselink and Dave Pearce of NXT Foundation protected value in the network rather than diluting it with an ICO.

Oct 17, 2016

Bitcoin

Blockchain-based IoT project does drone deliveries using Ethereum

San Francisco-based Chronicled used Ethereum to authenticate drone package delivery system.

Oct 14, 2016

Ethereum Bitcoin

Juan Benet of IPFS talks about Filecoin

IPFS is ready to add a blockchain-based currency layer called Filecoin to incentivise data storage on the network.

Oct 13, 2016

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Deloitte likes blockchain for loyalty rewards programmes

The report is one in a series on blockchain use cases produced by Deloitte Center for Financial Services.

Oct 13, 2016

Bitcoin

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