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How Collectives Aim To Make Cities Into Blockchain Centers

PYMNTS

Blockchain technology is taking hold in the Southwest, with the help of organizations encouraging development in the space. A group called the Austin Blockchain Collective , for instance, is looking to establish the Texas city as a hub for blockchain innovation.

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New Ransomware Uses Social Media, Demands Payment in Bitcoin

Bank Innovation

A new type of ransomware is targeting users through their social media accounts, most notably through Facebook and LinkedIn, before doing what ransomware does: locking the computer and demanding payment for access–in bitcoin.

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China, Alibaba Are Big Players On The Blockchain Patent Block

PYMNTS

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. Last year, 56 percent of all blockchain patents issued trace their genesis from China. Alibaba Bets On The Blockchain. And patents?

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Payment innovations remain Apple’s top FinTech priority | Deutsche Boerse to issue digital securities | Digital Euro will not be available until 2026

Bussman Advisory

Do you want your board, executives or staff to better understand the impact of FinTech, Blockchain or Digital Assets on the future of finance? The post Payment innovations remain Apple’s top FinTech priority | Deutsche Boerse to issue digital securities | Digital Euro will not be available until 2026 appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG.

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What’s the State of Banking Innovation in 2017?

Bank Innovation

What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores.

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Microsoft’s Blockchain Guru Marley Gray Joins Speaker Faculty

Bank Innovation

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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Emerging Innovation in Banking

Celent Banking

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation.