FinTech Rising

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BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/17/16

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10 VC firms betting big on bitcoin and the blockchain. Excluding private deals, nearly 200 venture capital firms have invested in bitcoin companies, and CoinDesk has a listed IDG Capital Partners, AME Cloud Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners as among the top 10 VCs you need to pay attention to in the bitcoin sector. Building the trust engine. UBS’s new whitepaper … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/17/16

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/10/16

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There's more than enough for this week in the best blockchain research papers, Q2 2016. This is a post from digital banking writer and consultant Chris Skinner, who posted a curated list of reports from Brave New Coin, which delivers blockchain and digital-asset markets news. For my part, I'm participating in FinTEx Chicago's Innovation Profile series, covering Chicago-based … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/10/16

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/01/16

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Blockchain: Over-hyped bandwagon or truly revolutionary technology? Some pointed questions and a video of a panel providing answers at the NASDAQ Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco that featured father and son Don and Alex Tapscott, followed by a panel discussion with John Wolpert, Global Blockchain Products Director at IBM; Haskell Garfinkel, Partner and FinTech … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/01/16

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 06/25/16

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Bank of England launches FinTech accelerator, partners with PwC on distributed ledger project Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, announced that its accelerator will work with new tech firms to help “harness FinTech innovations for central banking. In return, it will offer firms the chance to demonstrate their solutions for real issues facing us as policymakers, … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 06/25/16

Boom-Bubble Blues

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FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 06/19/16 In what turned out to be a prescient post--one of several on whether FinTech is in a boom or a bubble, Joi Ito suggested that the rush into blockchain shared public ledger technology is “a bit over its skis.” Mr. Ito, a long-time internet analyst who heads the MIT Media Lab, suggests that the focus be on building the infrastructure in a … [Read more...] about Boom-Bubble Blues

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 06/19/16

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I wrote a headline nearly a year ago "Blockchain Blues," about industry thought leaders considering "the problems as more major banks endorsed the technology’s potential." Now the blues are really being heard, with the backing on the Ethereum-based DAO, a somewhat utopian venture fund. The fund is winding down and is expected to roll back the transactions, something that would … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 06/19/16