Capital Markets

     Bank of America registered a patent in which it proposes a way to control access to certain aspects of a blockchain-allowed network, according to recently published documents. Specifically, the patent is on a system to manage security and...

     The Colombia Blockchain Association was announced in the past week with the coalition of six public and private Colombian companies, Buda Colombia, Bitcoin Colombia, Cajero.co, IntiColombia, Panda Group and RSK. This new entity seeks to support the country’s...

     China's Bitmain, the world’s most profitable Bitcoin mining company with a reported net return of $4 billion in profits, has recently decided to reinvest some of their capital. Bitmain has led a USD 110 million fund for...

     Last Monday, financial services group, HSBC, claimed it had successfully performed the world's first “commercially viable” trade finance transaction using blockchain technology, exponentially speeding up a process that normally takes a week or more to be completed...

     LG CNS, is a subsidiary of LG Corporation that supplies information technology services. Recently, LG CNS launched its own blockchain-powered platform “Monachain”, aimed at taking a stake in the lucrative, blockchain-logistics business sector related to finance, telecommunication...

Jeong Ki-wook, founding member of TrustVerse, a major South Korean wealth management firm and former Cisco executive said in an interview with the tech-news outlet, ZDNet Korea, that he firmly believes that, with the right improvements, cryptocurrency assets, like...

The Iranian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Minister, Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, announced recently that the Islamic Republic of Iran is working on a state cryptocurrency project. The ICT Minister, Iran’s youngest minister, says the the local project would not...

    The first Japanese, bank-owned cryptocurrency exchange will be launched this summer. Yoshitaka Kitao, president of SBI group, announced on April 26, that the banking giant is launching the SBI Virtual Currencies, Japan´s first fully bank-owned, cryptocurrency exchange....

     Pantera’s CEO and founder, Dan Morehead, says $40 trillion cryptocurrency market capital is “Definitely Possible”.  Since its start in 2011, the cryptocurrency hedge fund, Pantera has close to $1billion in assets under management. This Tuesday Pantera´s CEO said in...

     The BBVA, Spain´s second biggest lender, is the first bank to use blockchain technology to issue a loan, successfully completing a pilot of €75 million this Tuesday. As reported by the Financial Times, the Spanish bank completed...