FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 08/07/16 For this week, I'm moving the weekly blockchain feature to the top of the links, as blockchain continues to capture business and technology attention. The Wall Street Journal even reported that blockchain is at a tipping point, in a comparison of the technology now versus the internet 25 years ago. It certainly is in terms of FinTech … [Read more...] about Blockchain Watch
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THE BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/31/16
Venture research firm CBInsights published "Banking is only the start: 20 big industries where blockchain could be used." The post provides profiles of companies seeking to gain efficiencies from distributed database technologies in banking, payments, trade finance, car leasing, academic records, and beyond. What's common to these use cases are the presence of "transactions … [Read more...] about THE BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/31/16
BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 07/17/16
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
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
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
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