Day: January 21, 2019

The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras in Spain will collaborate with IBM on a blockchain-based shipping platform originally developed by the tech giant and Maersk Read the original…

By CCN.com: Legacy banks are not worried about crypto because it has no value and fails the fundamental tests of financial services. That’s the assessment of Huw van Steenis, the…

Digital securities platform Securitize has joined the IBM Blockchain Accelerator program and aims to make the corporate debt market more efficient Read the original post: Digital Securities Platform Joins IBM…

Huw van Steenis, senior adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England, says that cryptocurrencies fail fundamental financial tests and are slow Read the original post: Bank of England…

By CCN.com: Suspects in the “Big Bitcoin Heist” of 2018 have been sentenced to various prison terms based on their level of involvement in the much-publicised theft of more than…

Blockchain.com is looking to partner with an undisclosed stablecoin project by the end of 2019, according to a recent report Read the original post: Blockchain.com Seeks Undisclosed Stablecoin Partnership by…

By CCN.com: UAE and Saudi Arabia — two countries that have the world’s second-largest combined sovereign wealth funds — have launched their pilot cryptocurrency. According to UAE’s official news agency, Emirates News…

By CCN.com: The South African Reserve Bank has released a consultation paper to regulate cryptocurrencies in the region. However, the government is seemingly introducing banking-like features to the crypto-markets, going…