Skuchain: Here's how blockchain will save global trade a trillion dollars
IBTimes spoke to Skuchain about how blockchains will optimise antiquated, paper-based trade.
Chancellor George Osborne delays Lloyds sale because of market turmoil
Chancellor George Osborne has postponed the sale of the final stake in Lloyds Banking Group.
Ethereum-based credit rating and KYC platform Cetas picks up Citi innovation prize
Algorythmix has picked up first prize for the most transformative use of blockchain in Citi Mobile Challenge.
Citi Digital Money Symposium bets on India to become the new Kenya
IBTimes UK learns how India is replicating the success of mobile money in Kenya.
Ethereum's William Mougayar announces Business Blockchain books and conference
The Business Blockchain Conference will be held in Toronto on 18-20 April.
Barclays selects Smart Contract Templates internal team to join its Accelerator programme
EXCLUSIVE: Dr Lee Braine from Barclays details the bank's latest smart contract initiative.
How are banks actually going to use blockchains and smart contracts?
IBTimes spoke to Dr Gideon Greenspan, founder of Coin Sciences and MultiChain, about enterprise blockchains.
Robert Burns: Paradoxical Bard who championed freedom and wanted to work as slave driver in Jamaica
Burns abhorred 'chains and slaverie' yet bought a ticket to go and work on a plantation in Jamaica as a 'negro driver'.
Genesis Mining billboards say Jamie Dimon is right - 'Bitcoin will eat your lunch'
JP Morgan CEO mocked by cloud mining operation.
FCA's Makoto Seta: 'Blockchains will transform the way regulators work'
Seta joined a blockchain panel hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright called Unlocking the Blockchain.
BTL launches blockchain remittance platform Interbit
BTL is launching remittance platform Interbit at the BC Tech Summit on January 18th & 19th in Vancouver.
R3 connects 11 banks to distributed ledger using Ethereum and Microsoft Azure
R3 announced first distributed ledger experiment using Ethereum and Microsoft Azure's Blockchain as a service.
Bitcoin innovators SatoshiPay poised to recover website revenues lost through ad-blocking
Cryptocurrency in the form of nanopayments can provide content providers with an alternative revenue stream.
Consult Hyperion's Dave Birch imagines when blockchains dissolve regulatory boundaries
IBTimes UK spoke to the digital identity expert about transparency as a starting point for blockchains.
Digix launches digital gold asset platform on Ethereum
Every DGX token represents 1 gram of gold, and can be recasted back into a physical gold bar for redemption.
Coinsilium injects $100,000 into smart contracts developer Rootstock
Nick Szabo said Rootstock combines the best of both worlds – Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Blockchain investment database ChainHQ tracks $1bn of funding in distributed ledger technology
ChainHQ has tracked close to $1bn in funding received since 2009.
CoinDesk acquired by Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group
The editorial and business teams at CoinDesk will merge with DCG's newly launched events platform.
Bank of England embroiled in FCA decision to drop review of UK banking culture
BoE executive Megan Butler oversaw FCA decision to drop banking probes, despite denials from City regulator.
ShoCard raises the bar for digital identity using blockchain
IBTimes spoke to Armin Ebrahimi, CEO of ShoCard, which is close to announcing bank and KYC firm partnerships.
Uproov brings Bitcoin notary service to iTunes and Android
Uproov's notary service for photos, videos and audio recordings will be available on Android this week.
Provenance has a big year ahead delivering supply chain transparency with Bitcoin and Ethereum
IBTimes spoke to Jessi Baker about Provenance and a busy year ahead improving supply chains.
Blockchain platform Gem closes $7.1m funding round
Venice, California-based Gem becomes first blockchain firm to close funding in 2016.
Security firm Guardtime courting governments and banks with industrial-grade blockchain
IBTimes UK speaks to Guardtime, which is using its KSI blockchain to secure UK nuclear and flood-defence data.
Bitcoin giant BTCC donates 100 full nodes to help maintain the network
BTCC distributed the nodes in countries that rank low on the full bitcoin node geographic distribution list.
William Mougayar advises banks on 2016's blockchain revolution
Mougayar, an author, investor and Ethereum advisory board member, has written extensively on tech disruption.
Blockchain investor Coinsilium begins trading on ISDX in London
Upon Admission, Coinsilium has 69,793,500 Ordinary Shares on issue representing a market capitalisation of £6.98m
Top blockchain and fintech movers and shakers to watch in 2016
List includes a self-renting lock, a gaming value platform, and blockchain supply chains.
Game-changers FreeMyVunk and Digix allow video gamers to trade virtual assets for physical gold
Gaming platform FreeMyVunk and crypto-assets issuer Digix both use the Ethereum public blockchain.
Linux Foundation blockchain forum: Digital Asset, IBM, Credits and London Stock Exchange on board
Digital Asset chief Blythe Masters said it is contributing the Hyperledger brand to the new forum.
