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Encap Security forms advisory board with financial services leaders
October 22nd, 2015
Industry experts have been appointed to strengthen future decisions and drive business expansion Encap Security, provider of uncompromising authentication for financial institutions, announced today that it has created an advisory board made up of global experts with a vast ...
European Court of Justice: Bitcoin is a currency and exchanges are VAT-exempt
October 22nd, 2015
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that bitcoin exchange transactions should be exempt from VAT. The ECJ ruling stated that bitcoin transactions “are exempt from VAT under the provision concerning transactions relating to currency, bank notes and ...
UK to spend £10m on cryptocurrency research
October 16th, 2015
Harriet Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury of UK, in a speech, that she delivered at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, has declared a £10million funding for cryptocurrency research. Baldwin also mentioned that the country was working hard ...
BoE Chief Economist: Blockchain-based Digital Currency Issued by Central Banks Could Replace Cash
September 29th, 2015
In a talk given at the Portadown Chamber of Commerce in Northern Ireland on September 18, Andrew G Haldane , Chief Economist at the Bank of England (BoE), has hinted at the possibility that the U.K. government might issue a digital currency. Though ...
VC Head Believes Israel will Lead Blockchain App Industry
September 25th, 2015
The managing director of Santander Group’s venture capital firm believes that Israel will become a reference market for blockchain applications. Mariano Belinky, who has recently invested in an Israel-based payment application, expressed his faith in the technologically advanced nation, ...
ICAP invests further in Duco
September 21st, 2015
Series B funding to accelerate growth. Strategic investment made through Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage fintech funding business ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, has further invested in ...
Barclays hunts for new recruits with gamified trading platform
September 15th, 2015
Barclays is to test the skills of budding traders with the opening of a virtual investment platform from US-based gamified recruitment startup Stockfuse. Stockfuse was one of the startups to win a place on Barclays’ fintech accelerator programme ...
Innovate Finance and IBM to open blockchain lab
September 14th, 2015
UK fintech champion Innovate Finance is to establish a blockchain lab in partnership with the Hartree Centre, the high performance computing and data analytics research facility founded by the UK Government in association with IBM. Blockchain has become one ...
Barclays has two blockchain ‘labs’ in London and is planning 45 experiments with the technology
September 7th, 2015
Like pretty much every other major bank at the moment, Barclays is very interested in the potential of the blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin. The Sunday Times reported this week that Barclays is planning to let charities accept bitcoin later ...
ICAP invests in Abide Financial
September 7th, 2015
Strategic investment made through Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage FinTech funding business ICAP plc, has issued an announcement today to inform that it has made a strategic investment in Abide Financial, a market-leading global regulatory reporting specialist. The investment ...
