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MAY 3, 2019

Microsoft has announced the launch of Azure Blockchain Service , which simplifies the formation, management and governance of consortium blockchain networks. Because it’s built on the popular ethereum protocol, which has the world’s largest blockchain developer community, Quorum is a natural choice.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

million digital dollars to Coastal Community Bank in an inaugural demonstration last week of a new payment rail built on blockchain technology. billion Coastal Community Bank Dec. Western Alliance Bank transferred $1.1 More than 100 U.S. banks watched the real-time transfer between $50 billion Western Alliance Bank and $1.5

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Enterprise blockchain platform XinFin is joining the R3 consortium, with the R3 Corda marketplace hosting several XinFin apps for business users, the companies said in a press release Friday (Feb. Financial institutions that use the R3 Corda blockchain platform can gain access to and integrate these apps.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

A new technology protocol announced by corporate accounting and auditing firm Ernst & Young (EY) aims to secure transactions made over public Ethereum blockchain. The solution aims to help enterprises and investors to conduct private, secure transactions on a public blockchain.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The Hainan Province in South China rolled out a series of measures to accelerate the blockchain space’s development, Xinhua reported. They are said to be released by the first blockchain pilot zone of China in the Hainan pilot free trade zone (FTZ). It is said to be one of the quickest-growing blockchain clusters in the nation.

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MAY 29, 2019

JPMorgan Chase has revealed to CoinDesk that its blockchain team has created a privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains. That’s why we wanted to open-source it back to the community, so anyone can build on it further and continue enhancing it and potentially put it into their use cases as needed.”.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 7, 2016

Image from BlackListedNews Introducing Blockchain is like a conference moderator introducing the famous speaker who needs no introduction. If you Google “Blockchain for dummies”, you get a choice of explanations. We assume that the Daily Fintech community is beyond that point.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This national bank charter will be instrumental in our efforts to continue to develop and deliver new financial products and services to communities across this country that really haven’t had access to affordable offerings,” Davies said. “I I look forward to working with the OCC as we move forward on this journey.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. This time around, Sweetbridge is using blockchain in a lending context.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In the ongoing move to embrace blockchain, Facebook may have its allies. IBM has said it is “willing” to work with Facebook on blockchain, as noted by an IBM executive. He said that a company such as Facebook can help bring more legitimacy to blockchain — yet he did not state whether IBM would look to join the Libra Association.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

CULedger , a credit union, has inked a partnership with IBM to create blockchain services geared toward credit unions. According to a report in Fintech Futures , the idea behind the project is to use permission-based blockchain technology so credit unions can reach more members that don’t have access to financial services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The World Blockchain Trade Consortium (WBTC) officially launched this week in Singapore with the aim to utilize blockchain technology to lower costs, reduce risk and increase funding to SMEs. Whilst we were talking to them about Invoice Check, they were asking about a lot of different use case scenarios for blockchain applications.

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Gill Haus, CIO of Consumer and Community Bank (CCB) at JPMorgan Chase, offered a simple answer when asked what technology most excites him. It wasn’t blockchain, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, or any trendy cutting-edge technologies. Mobile technology is where his passion lies, Haus told Bank Automation News.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There’s been a lot for blockchain enthusiasts to digest this week, but let’s start with consortium news. The R3CEV blockchain consortium of banks opened its Corda codebase up to the larger developer community this week, in the hopes that independent experiments based on Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A group of oil and gas companies have announced a partnership that will create the first blockchain industry consortium in the U.S. In other news, Samsung presented its first blockchain partners for its upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphone during this week’s Samsung Mobile Business Summit session at MWC Barcelona 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

After setting up a group within Facebook to look into blockchain technology, Facebook may be bolstering its efforts in the field: Evan Cheng has taken on the position of director of engineering, blockchain, at the company, according to reports and his LinkedIn profile. But Cheng has tweeted about blockchain topics.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

While much has been said and written about the blockchain in recent years – good and bad – generally speaking, few have ever really considered it as an artistic venture. The pilot will be done in collaboration with Artory, a blockchain-based digital registry for the art market. That fact is borne out by the numbers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

million in a funding round to develop blockchain and integrate it into its database technology, according to a report. Fluree was started by CEO and Co-founder Brian Platz, who said the Fluree database combines graph and blockchain technology to create innovative new ways of querying and storing data. “It

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Australian supply chain-focused blockchain technology company Security Matters has filed a patent application in the U.S. And Huobi Global is getting set to launch NODE, the native token of both Whole Network and its Acute Angle blockchain phone. Given this, the need for devices optimized for blockchain seems clear.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The proposed alteration to Ethereum’s blockchain would change the proof-of-work consensus system to a proof-of-stake consensus system. EXCLUSIVE– If you are a crypto enthusiast, or an investor curious about how the following months will affect the value of your ether, then Casper is a project you should know about.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest announced the launch of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative to study the technology, virtual assets, smart contracts and digital tokens. And LG CNS, a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate LG Corp. , And LG CNS, a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate LG Corp. ,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

CertiK , an auditing firm, wants to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices onto blockchain through its new partnership with Hdac , CoinDesk reports. Hdac’s blockchain platform will work to combine the tight authentication, seamless mapping and machine-to-machine transactions with a network containing IoT devices.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Governments are betting on blockchain to power tourism in cities. The city’s infrastructure will be constructed reportedly through the help of blockchain, with a DMI platform and a DMI coin that will allow for payments of government services. There is also, of course, the blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has proposed a three year “safe harbor” for digital token projects that would let them develop networks and build communities before they’re considered securities that need to be enforced, according to a report Thursday (Feb.6) 6) by Coindesk.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

It didn’t come as a surprise, however, considering the news last year that the central bank would restructure its RTGS system to interface with other platforms, including those build on blockchain — even though the Bank of England said blockchain was “not yet sufficiently mature to provide the core for the next generation of RTGS.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Two blockchain consortia have seen their membership numbers increase, a good sign that distributed ledger technology will see continued support in 2017. On Thursday, reports also said Japan’s own blockchain consortium, founded by SBI Holdings and its SBI Ripple Asia subsidiary, added another member to its group, Fukui Bank.

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Let's Talk Payments

MARCH 6, 2017

Almost a year ago, I wrote an article for Let’s Talk Payments in which have I argued and tried to test blockchain’s community thinking, eventually moving towards something called Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Monerium, a startup based in Iceland that has a European Economic Area (EEA) e-money license, has teamed up with Algorand, a blockchain with a highly scalable consensus algorithm, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. Monerium stores fiat currency deposits for clients and releases them in a digital form on a blockchain. 21) by Coindesk.

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APRIL 9, 2018

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s a self-proclaimed blockchain city. Dubai is gearing up for payments via digital coin through a concerted effort between the government and blockchain payments provider Pundi X , with hardware rolling out and a state-created cryptocurrency. Dialing For Blockchain. The merchants themselves?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists. According to Cornerstone Advisors’ What’s Going On in Banking 2023 study, there are about 500 community banks and credit unions making direct investments into fintech startups. And not just the large megabanks. billion in 2021.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

China’s largest retailer, JD.com , has announced a new blockchain technology platform that will allow enterprise customers to build, host and use their own blockchain applications. The company will continue to add new applications through the introduction of additional ISV, as well as through the creation of an ISV community.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In fact, Head Blockchain Engineer Stan James at decentralized blockchain marketplace provider Origin told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that the central locus of the pre-digital gig economy was the community bulletin board. Currently in mainnet beta, Origin’s basic offering functions like a blockchain-powered Craigslist.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

CargoX ’s Platform for Blockchain Document Transfer (BDT) was connected with the Port Community System (PCS) of India amid a push in the country for trade documents, including of bills of lading, to be digitized, WorldCargo News reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Community members will have the ability to receive new Aragon Network Juror (ANJ) tokens in exchange for the project’s ANT tokens. And R3 , the enterprise software vendor, has earned a patent for a record system based on the blockchain that is meant to bring greater efficiency to corporate information sharing, Coindesk reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Zhao has a prominent status among the community, and rumors online began to circulate. Salesforce co-founder and CNET founder Halsey Minor has a new project going — a public blockchain network with dollars baked in, CoinDesk reported. That will let users create their own “digital money systems.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

With only days to go before its official launch, Debitum Network is demonstrating its blockchain-powered small business financing solution. 27), revealing tests completed in front of members of the crypto community at the Blockchain Centre Vilnius. The company issued a press release Monday (Aug. last year.

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