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Russia’s Biggest Bank Wants To Adopt Blockchain. Not Bitcoin

11/12/2015(0)
Sberbank, the biggest bank in Russia might adopt blockchain technology in the future. The bank plans to join the international consortium R3 and develop blockchain based services. However, as in the ... Read More
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Germany’s Finance CEOs Don’t Think Bitcoin Will Go Mainstream

08/12/2015(0)
A German telecommunications trade organization has published a new survey that shows little enthusiasm for bitcoin among financial executives. The survey, carried out by the research arm of the German Association ... Read More
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GOLDMAN SACHS: ‘The Blockchain can change… well everything’

04/12/2015(0)
Goldman Sachs is a big bull on blockchain, the distributed ledger software that underpins digital currency bitcoin. In an “Emerging Theme Radar” note sent to clients on Wednesday, the ... Read More
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BNP Paribas joins the R3 Blockchain Initiative

24/11/2015(0)
The Group joins the R3 Blockchain initiative, which aims to establish whether an industry standard can be developed around Blockchain technology. This approach is part of the strategy of ... Read More
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Bitcoin has no future, says UBS chairman Axel Weber at Bank of England’s Open Forum

13/11/2015(0)
The chairman of investment bank UBS, Axel Weber, has played down the potential of crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin. During a discussion at the Bank of England’s Open Forum, he ... Read More
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Bitcoin to be 6th largest reserve currency by 2030: Research

05/11/2015(0)
Bitcoin industry insiders have issued an optimistic prediction for the cryptocurrency over the next few decades, suggesting it could be as widely used as the Swiss franc or the ... Read More
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How Payment Giants Are Embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech

30/10/2015(0)
MasterCard‘s participation in Digital Currency Group’s undisclosed funding round sent ripples of excitement across the crypto-sphere earlier this week. While this is MasterCard’s first crypto-related investment, the multinational corporation is ... Read More
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Blockchain Identity: Solving the Global Identification Crisis

28/09/2015(0)
Bitcoin and the underlying technology of the blockchain has become a pretty important invention of our time. The cryptocurrency application itself has given us a sketch of new meanings ... Read More
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VC Head Believes Israel will Lead Blockchain App Industry

25/09/2015(0)
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 ... Read More
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Visa, Citi, Nasdaq, Fiserv and Capital One back blockchain startup Chain

11/09/2015(0)
Five financial services heavyweights have joined in a $30 million funding round for blockchain startup Chain, which is aiming to overturn Wall Street conventions for the issuing and handling ... Read More
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