Dubai stands among the world's largest hubs for cryptocurrecy trading, and is one of the biggest supporters of blockchain development. Due to the fast growth of the market in the city-state, the local government has laid the...
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 Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) is a new investigative group founded by more than 30 companies, that promises to change the mobility industry. There are some big names from both the technology and mobility sectors involved in the...
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....
On April 26, Sony, the company responsible for the marvels of entertainment technology such as the Walkman and PlayStation, registered its first patent related to blockchain technology. Published by the US Patent & Trademark Office, it is...
It's now is easier than ever to patent financial technology in Singapore. This new, Singapore initiative is part of the Republic’s, "Smart Nation" agenda which seeks to encourage start-ups and enterprises to find innovative solutions and fulfill the...
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...
According to a Reuters survey,
"20% of companies will get in the cryptocurrency trading space this year."
In recent months, more and more established banks and other asset-related companies are getting involved in the cryptocurrency trading market. This,...
“Certainly, Nasdaq would consider becoming a crypto exchange” says company’s CEO
Adena Friedman.
The CEO of the second largest stock exchange in the world, Nasdaq, said in an interview with CNBC´s Squawk Box, that the company is open to...