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A bank in the Netherlands and a local university are working on blockchain prototypes
October 27th, 2016
A prominent bank in the Netherlands is working with a local university to develop a series of blockchain prototypes. ABN Amro, which is a member of the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger project and an investor in blockchain startup Digital Asset ...
IBM blockchain leader Jerry Cuomo using ‘shadowchains’ to launch moonshots
March 28th, 2016
IBM has been building momentum behind blockchain by championing the Linux Foundation’s Hyperleder Project and creating its own Open Blockchain (OBC) among other things. IBM’s vice president of blockchain Jerry Cuomo, who recently gave testimony before US Congress about ...
What is blockchain, and can IBM, Intel, and big banks use it to remake the internet?
December 23rd, 2015
Linux was once thought of as the ugly duckling of OS world, an indulgence appealing only to system administrators, power-users, and shut-ins. Today, the Linux kernel underlies Google’s Android OS, the most widespread mobile platform in the world, and ...
IBM Unveils Matchmaking Technology to Navigate API Economy
November 6th, 2015
Prepares Clients for the Coming API Economy with Comprehensive Portfolio of Products and Services to Build Business Applications Unleashes New Intelligent Matchmaking Software for Finding and Leveraging the Best APIs New Linux Foundation Collaborative Project to Advance Open API ...
OpenMAMA Sees Strong Adoption across Financial Services Sector
July 23rd, 2015
“Significantly increases vendor coverage and re-launches with a new advisory group” OpenMAMA, the project developed to allow financial services firms to move more freely between market data technology and content vendors, today announces its re-launch boasting a new advisory ...
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Adds 86 New Members Including DTCC, State Street And Infosys
May 22nd, 2017
The Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, an initiative to standardize a business version of Ethereum that launched in February, announced that it has added 86 new members, including heavyweights such as the DTCC, State Street, Infosys, Deloitte, MUFG, Toyota Research Institute ...
IBM and Chile´s Santiago Exchange to Deliver World´s First Securities Lending Blockchain Solution
May 18th, 2017
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Chile’s Santiago Exchange, the largest in the country, today announced a partnership to introduce Blockchain technology across the country’s financial sector. The agreement makes the Santiago Stock Exchange the first stock market in Latin America ...
Japanese Giant Hitachi Tests Blockchain Tech for 150 Million Member Rewards Program
February 28th, 2017
Hitachi, a major and decades-old Japanese conglomerate and multinational is implementing a blockchain platform onto its popular point management and rewards platform, PointInfinity. Japanese blockchain developer and bitcoin exchange Tech Bureau is providing ‘Mijin’ its private blockchain solution to ...
Blockchain platform developed by Banks to be Open-Source
October 23rd, 2016
A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world’s biggest financial institutions is making its code publicly available, in what could become the industry standard for the nascent technology. The Corda platform has ...
What actually is … Blockchain technology?
March 23rd, 2016
A new technology is causing a stir in the FinTech community: Blockchain has many market experts believing that it is the greatest achievement of the past decade for financial technology and the most important digital innovation since the internet ...
