Fintech

Hackers have stolen some 119,756 bitcoin or about $65m in cash at current prices.

Hundreds of global remittance companies forced to cease transfers while Western Union, MoneyGram and Ria continue.

PwC's Belfast-based blockchain technology team worked with Z/Yen in undertaking the global industry survey.

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) awarded a place on the G-Cloud 8 framework agreement to Credits.

Kavout, which boasts former Google and Microsoft engineers, combines signals from a range of categories.

The Smart Contracts Alliance will be co-chaired by Mark Smith, CEO of Symbiont, and Sean Murphy, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright,

Users would be required to register their details with an EU-wide database accessible to intelligence services.

IBTimes spoke with IoT/blockchain innovators David Sønstebø, IOTA founder, and Tom Fuerstner, founder of Riddle&Code.

Silicon Valley investment firm Magister Advisors has completed its H1 report, The State Of European Tech Up To Brexit

Zidisha lets web users lend directly to individual borrowers in developing countries without any intermediary

Florida laws too vague to bring prosecution against selling digital currency, judge rules in landmark case.

DigixGlobal will be transferring their current gold holdings to Silver Bullion for the upcoming relaunch of DGX 2.0.

Peter Hafez, chief data scientist at RavenPack, knows about processing large volumes of unstructured data.

The launch of Agentic UK aims to boost the fintech sector following the Brexit vote in June, said a statement.

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The OpenLedger crowdfunding app said Projects Corner is a reference to Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner.

Dr Lee Braine of Barclays was joined by Preston Byrne of Eris, Ajit Tripathi of PwC, and Sean Murphy of Norton Rose Fulbright.

Tether uses a 'currency board' system, similar to nations that peg their currencies to other fiat currencies.

The Charities Aid Foundation has published another thoughtful report on blockchain technology for social good.

Neil Costigan is the CEO of BehavioSec talks about battle-tested machine learning behavioural biometrics.

The House of Lords heard evidence on blockchain from Dr Ben Broadbent of BoE and Blythe Masters, chief of DAH.

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

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

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

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

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

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

France offers firms tax breaks, better schools and more frequent trains in a bid to woo them from London.

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