Fintech

CEO Vytautas Karalevičius says cryptocurrency is a top option because of 'usage for actual payments'.

Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.

The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.

The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.

Trading of DigixDAO tokens is expected to begin on Bittrex on Tuesday, June 14 at 17:00 UTC.

IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.

The information was listed on The Real Deal marketplace, which also hosted the Myspace and LinkedIn breaches.

WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.

The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.

Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.

Russian ransomware bosses make an average 'salary' of about $90,000 per year.

The ransomware targets removable and network drives and has the ability to spread on its own.

Ethereum-based ConsenSys rallied support for its uPort identity system at ID2020 at the United Nations.

Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote

The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.

The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.

IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).

Haydn Shaughnessy, author of Platform Disruption Wave, talks about China's platform-based global power play.

BloqEnterrpise promises Turing-complete smart contracts plugged into Bitcoin, written in JavaScript and Python

Ping An joins the global network of R3 partners united in its lab environment, the R3 Lab and Research Centre,

IBTimes spoke to ObjectChain Collab MD Paul Ferris, who recently presented the idea at Consensus 2016 in NYC.

Cybersecurity researchers have found ransomware modified to send DDoS attacks from infected PCs.

GTEC handed out €50,000 in prizes to winners Arcade City, CargoChain, Clipperz and Helperbitz.

CEO Thorsten Peisl: 'Transparency, the great benefit of blockchain, is an obstacle for financial services in particular.'

Swarm, the decentralised file storage and distribution solution, has just released its orange paper.

Jeremy Sosabowski PhD, CEO & co-founder, AlgoDynamix, talks about identifying endogenous portfolio risk.

Haydn Shaughnessy's latest book, Platform Disruption Wave, takes fintech to unprecedented geopolitical levels.

Ether (ETH) is the native token of the Ethereum, used to power applications on the Ethereum blockchain.

Lisk, which raised $6.5m in a crowdsale, 'is an app store for peer-to-peer apps for a blockchain or its sidechains'.

Ukraine's Distributed Lab launched the eAuction platform in February with Oschadbank, PrivatBank and Microsoft.