Articles by Ian Allison

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'Over a hundred' London startups have asked to relocate to Berlin since Brexit

Berlin Senator for Economics and Technology, Cornelia Yzer pulled no punches during a presentation at London Fintech Week 2016.

Jul 18, 2016

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AI and machine learning on social media data is giving hedge funds a competitive edge

Unicom conference on 'AI, Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Applied to Finance' examined the state of the art.

Jul 18, 2016

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House of Lords to ask Bank of England: Is it time for 'Britcoin'?

Lords Economic Affairs Committee will take evidence from the Deputy Governor of the BoE on blockchain tech on 19 July.

Jul 15, 2016

Bitcoin

Will banks catch the curve of the machine-to-machine economy?

Blockchains will drive an M2M economy of autonomous vehicles, drones, robots and 3D printers

Jul 15, 2016

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Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin explains how state channels address privacy and scalability

State channels can preserve privacy and ring signatures have useful applications in payments.

Jul 15, 2016

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R3 extends collaboration with Smart Contract Templates Summit

IBTimes UK speaks to Richard Brown, CTO of R3, and Dr Lee Braine of the Investment Bank CTO Office at Barclays.

Jul 12, 2016

Barclays Bitcoin

AI start-ups being sold to Twitter, Microsoft and Apple for up to $10m per employee

Magister Advisors notes that AI firms without revenues are more valuable than those with.

Jul 12, 2016

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IBM to open Blockchain Innovation Center in Singapore

IBM looks to global trade blockchain with Port Authority of Singapore, the world's largest container transhipment port.

Jul 12, 2016

Bitcoin

Blockchain-powered real estate platform Ubitquity records first property ownership transfer on the Bitcoin public ledger

Marina Reznik of Atlantic Sotheby's International Realty recorded the transaction using Coloured Coins protocol.

Jul 11, 2016

Bitcoin

Pink Floyd: Blockchain technology in music could be 'truly revolutionary'

A research team at Middlesex University has released their 'Music on the blockchain' report.

Jul 8, 2016

Bitcoin

Z/Yen's Michael Mainelli believes blockchain works better for insurance than banks

'It's about much, much more than payments. It's about wholesale market data sharing,' says think-tank chairman

Jul 8, 2016

Bitcoin

EU's AML Bitcoin legislation needs tighter definition of 'wallet provider'

EDCAB founder Siân Jones addressed the European parliament's public hearing on virtual currencies earlier this year.

Jul 7, 2016

Bitcoin

Krypto Commerce and Jumio doing KYC/AML for prepaid crypto debit card

ID verification specialists Jumio are providing KYC and anti-money laundering services for PoolMiners Card.

Jul 6, 2016

Bitcoin

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin: Soft fork vulnerability means a mining oligopoly cannot engage in censorship

Soft fork vulnerability is a blessing in disguise, which means a cabal of miners cannot unilaterally make changes to Ethereum.

Jul 5, 2016

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Blockchains at Payments Innovation: SETL shines, 11:FS takes a stand and DWP tests GovCoin

Peter Randall, CEO of SETL, was joined by Simon Taylor, co-founder of 11:FS, on a fiery blockchain panel.

Jul 5, 2016

Blockchain identity innovators Netki raises $3.5m funding led by O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Also involved in the funding round was Donuts, Colle Capital, Husseini Group, Digital Currency Group, Tom Turney, Bitfinex, Plug and Play.

Jul 5, 2016

Bitcoin

The fraud industry: Expect to be KYC'd by criminals when buying stolen credit cards on the dark web

Feedzai's Richard Harris explains how machine learning is used to play cat and mouse with sophisticated fraudsters.

Jul 5, 2016

Blockchain content sharing app LBRY declares independent from Google, Apple and Amazon

LBRY has released a Beta version of its app and more content deals.

Jul 4, 2016

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Ethereum-based APPII working with Open University to verify qualifications on blockchains

Open University have been experimenting with a blockchain solution in their Knowledge Media Institute (KMI).

Jun 29, 2016

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Machine learning in markets: When intelligent algorithms start spoofing each other, regulation becomes a science

Anthony Amicangioli of Hyannis Port Research developed Riskbot, 'a supercomputer that watches supercomputers'.

Jun 29, 2016

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