PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To explore the positive impacts of blockchain on small businesses, the U.S. Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez said, according to the report, “it is vital that Congress keep pace with the evolving needs of our country’s innovative small businesses.”

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Insights on Business

JULY 26, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. One of the best things about working at IBM—and in the RegTech field in particular—is meeting daily with the engineers and developers who are driving technological innovation in the financial industry. Consider, for example, the blockchain space. IBM driving innovation. Customer Experience.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 17, 2018

Visa doesn’t see much use for blockchain in its core business, which is transactions at scale, according to CEO Alfred Kelly.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Everything in banking is changing: fintechs are solidifying their place in the financial ecosystem, as challenger banks, online lenders, and blockchain technology providers become essential functions to keep the industry moving forward.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Standard Chartered has announced the completion of the first cross-bank Letter of Credit (LC) transaction over blockchain, between Vietnam and Thailand, according to a report from FinanceFeeds. It was completed over the blockchain-based Contour network, which is an open industry platform and focused on digitizing trade finance.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Blockchain lending firm Figure Technologies announced that it has closed a $103 million series C funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital. MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Figure is working to transform the lending process through Provenance, a decentralized blockchain that Figure uses for loan origination, financing and sales.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Innovation is expensive. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Innovation is expensive. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It’s been several months, if not years, since blockchain was the darling of tech startup investors, but this week proved the technology still has a lot to offer venture capitalists. blockchain startup Envoy will be used to bolster its supply chain and trade finance platform, the company told PYMNTS in an emailed announcement.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This bank created an innovation lab, and that bank is launching a fintech team. But this other bank just started a blockchain focus group, and everyone else is investing in tech. Gone are the days when banks could afford to be “conservative” with new product launches and tech projects, which Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 29, 2018

Blockchain technology has been talked about in banking for so long that readers here can be excused for being a bit jaded on the subject. The technology has been touted as solving just about every problem bankers face, but as Adam Ludwin, CEO of Chain, told us in San Francisco at Bank Innovation 2018 earlier.Read More.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Summit brings together experts in the field, including bank executives, technology vendors, and consultants, to discuss the latest advancements in automation and its impact on the banking industry. Perficient will also bring insight surrounding the banking industry’s growing use of blockchain to the Summit.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 7, 2018

I recently wrote an article for Bloomberg’s Business Week, and thought it worth sharing with y’all here: What’s next for blockchain? Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Multinational tech mogul IBM is working with blockchain startup Stellar to establish a cross-border payment system, which will allow banks to use the technology. By using this technology, banks will be save both time as well as costs on the transfer process.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE–The potential use cases of blockchain technology in banking continue to captivate bankers, but topics like cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, may be losing a bit of their edge. This is according to a panel on the subject during Bank Innovation 2018, which wrapped up yesterday in San Francisco.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2016

BNY Mellon has made a lot of noise about blockchain technology in recent months and that continued in a discussion of the bank’s innovation agenda yesterday. Reporting the bank’s third-quarter earnings, CEO Gerald Hassell outlines a shift in resources from real estate to digital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative ( MOBI )'s Vehicle Identity (VID) II Working Group unveiled the second part of a vehicle identity standard that uses blockchain technology, according to an announcement. Flanigan added that Ford believes the technology could make the buying process easier in the future.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The finance landscape is witnessing some significant changes and disruptions due to fintech companies, blockchain technology, and AI. Here is a […].

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Last week, Ballard Spahr launched an innovative online application to help cryptocurrency and blockchain industry participants keep pace with quickly evolving laws, regulations, policies, and government enforcement priorities in the space. The Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Legislative Tracker is an interactive.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 7, 2017

Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital firm to focus exclusively on DLT technology is offering digital tokens that represent a stake in the firm’s third fund. The tokens are held on the Ethereum blockchain […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With payment innovators looking to migrate B2B payments away from paper, a growing number of payment rails and technologies are helping to ease the pain of the shift. PYMNTS examines the latest initiatives that look to improve upon existing rails, or embrace new ones like blockchain and RTP. RTP Expands Across FI Base.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2016

SEATTLE – In the end, it came down to biometrics versus blockchain. Eleven companies were awarded slots in the DEMOvation Challenge, which took place yesterday here at Bank Innovation 2016, our annual first-quarter event.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 10, 2018

Blockchain has yet to realize its full potential, and right now, it seems like financial institutions and technology providers aren’t rushing to push it out of its nascent, proof-of-concept stage.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 2, 2018

It’s no secret distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have been front-of-mind for financial institutions examining solutions to existing problems in institutional and retail banking. While blockchain technology is still a greenhorn in the wilderness of capital markets, the underlying concept should be heralded as a catalyst for innovation.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Patent filings for blockchain technology have more than tripled since 2014; this spike includes patents filed by cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, payment processors like Mastercard, and banks like Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 4, 2018

Conservative MP Eddie Hughes has just written a 36-page white paper extolling the benefits of blockchain for Britain, which was published yesterday Unlocking Blockchain: Embracing new technologies to drive efficiency and empower the citizen, by FREER.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The World Bank announced it has raised $33 million from investors for its blockchain-based “Kangaroo” bond, Bond- i. The bond, which is due August 2020, is the first bond created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life-cycle using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This week’s round-up of the latest innovations in payment rails for B2B payments shows a key focus on real-time transactions and embrace of emerging, faster payment rails. Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. TOMIA and Clear Embrace Blockchain for Telecom B2B Payments. Canada Taps Vocalink for Real-Time Rail.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions ( BENEFIT ) to develop a blockchain-powered B2B payments solution, according to a press release Tuesday (July 30). According to reports in TahawulTech, the initiative marks Mastercard’s first national-scale blockchain project in the Middle East.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Payment innovators are embracing the opportunities to mix payment rails old and new in search of business-to-business (B2B) solutions that can tackle longstanding friction. Dollar Coin (USDC) on the ethereum blockchain. Velo Labs, Lightnet, Visa Collab On Blockchain SMB Payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Information technology services provider Mphasis is teaming with global enterprise services provider R3 to work on blockchain-based payment solutions, a press release says. Corda is a blockchain platform that eliminates expensive friction in business transactions.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2017

2017 was a tumultuous year, but despite some stops and starts, innovation in finance is only gaining more momentum.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2018

Blockchain‘s future in banking is bright, but right now, the industry is not prepared to take advantage of what the technology offers, according to a new McKinsey report on blockchain’s viability across various industries.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Fintechs are partnering with banks, banks are using blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency and financial regulation is still undergoing massive changes. 2017 has been a […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cross-border payments are getting an update—but banks are keeping blockchain in the blockchain labs. If [the Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 23, 2017

Remember when blockchain was going to kill financial services? Take companies like Deloitte: with several new partnerships, projects, innovation labs, and consortium memberships, financial services giant Deloitte might have a better grasp on blockchain’s potential than a couple shiny new fintechs.

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