Search Results for: Distributed ledger technology
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 ...
ICAP’s Post Trade Risk and Information division announces completion of a blockchain proof of technology
March 15th, 2016
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that its Post Trade Risk and Information (“PTRI”) division has successfully completed a proof of technology test case for a ...
Bitcoin Technology Tested In Trial By 40 Big Banks
March 3rd, 2016
The technology behind Bitcoin is starting to make progress on Wall Street. By December, financial technology company R3 CEV had brought together a consortium of 42 banks to create standards and protocols for using blockchain technology in financial services. ...
Nasdaq Selected to Support ASX in Post-Trade Technology Overhaul
March 2nd, 2016
ASX to replace equities and equity options clearing platforms with Genium INET Nasdaq to build CCP clearing capability ASX’s clearinghouses now managing real-time risk with Nasdaq’s post-trade risk technology Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have announced ...
RBC tests distributed ledger for remittances and loyalty programme
February 26th, 2016
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is the latest financial services giant to go public with its distributed ledger progress, confirming that it is working with Ripple on cross-border payments and experimenting with a blockchain-based loyalty platform. RBC, which ...
IBM Bets on Bitcoin Ledger
February 16th, 2016
International Business Machines Inc. is becoming the biggest backer of a technology that underpins the Bitcoin digital currency. In the coming year, IBM will begin testing its own variation on the transactional software known as blockchain, aiming to simplify life for ...
Bitcoin technology heralds ‘smart contracts’ era
January 27th, 2016
The technology behind the Bitcoin digital currency could usher in an era of ‘smart contracts’ and enable the creation of a tamper-proof Land Registry database, legal technology experts said this week in the wake of a landmark government report. ...
R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger
January 21st, 2016
Financial technology innovation company, R3 CEV, today announced the successful completion of a ground breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions. R3 and consortium member banks Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of ...
Government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers
January 19th, 2016
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt the technology that powers crypto-currency Bitcoin to run various public services. Bitcoins are powered by blockchains – digital ledgers that record information from Bitcoin transactions to DNA. Sir ...
Russian Information Minister Is Keen to Explore Blockchain Technology
December 22nd, 2015
Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Minister for Communications and Mass Media spoke about Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. The Minister notes the distributed ledger technology as “very interesting” and intends to monitor its development going forward. Speaking at the ‘Internet ...
