Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

— Blockchain – or the distributed ledger technology – is rushing out of test labs, and into real-life applications. Experts foresee that blockchain will take over money transfers, and will […]. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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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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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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JANUARY 21, 2021

HashCash Consultants , which works in blockchain, is working with an unnamed U.S.-based based bank to help them finance their corporate trade owing to a sophisticated blockchain platform for B2B payments, a press release says.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2017

As the year saw changes in financial regulation, startup culture, and trends in venture capital, innovation moved forward: blockchain labs were made, funding was fought for, mobile payment systems were integrated, and the limits of artificial […].

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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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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. This isn’t World Bank’s only blockchain project.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (WFSC) is backing the London-based blockchain analysis firm Elliptic with a $5 million investment, bringing the startup’s Series B round to $28 million, Elliptic announced in a press release on Thursday (Feb. WFSC joins existing investors SBI Group and Santander InnoVentures.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

gears up to leave the European Union (EU), for commerce, there remains the unknowns of how trade will be affected, as well as how capital, goods and services can be tracked. The concept of blockchain used in Brexit’s aftermath — specifically to help navigate a new customs landscape — is nothing new. As the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

News came recently, when it comes to patents tied to the blockchain landscape, that Thomson Reuters found China, and Alibaba , to have had an outsized showing. Last year, 56 percent of all blockchain patents issued trace their genesis from China. Alibaba Bets On The Blockchain. Yet, blockchain remains an area of interest.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Overstock may be best known as an eCommerce business, but these days its CEO and Founder Patrick Byrne is much more interested in talking about the power of cryptocurrency and blockchain, and how it will be the real future of both the firm and the economy in general. Suffice to say, Byrne remains one of blockchain’s bigger boosters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

If entranced by bitcoin’s ebbs and flows, one would be forgiven for being caught off guard (if they are, in fact, off guard) to find that a major bank is coming to market with a service backed by blockchain, which now is live and available — and can help make sure that funds cross borders with speed and surety.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In other news, billionaire Li Xiaolai, the founder of Beijing-based venture capital firm BitFund , announced that he is giving up on the blockchain and initial coin offering (ICO) space. From this day on, Li Xiaolai personally will not invest in any projects (whether it is blockchain or early stage).

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- With mobile banking, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other modern banking tools on the rise, the emergence of new players in the fintech space is a daily occurrence With that in mind, here are five startups to keep an eye on this week: Templum ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings, are growing more and more popular […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Blockchain has long been in the process of being divorced – operationally as well as conceptually – from its crypto connection. The hope has been that as blockchain moves beyond bitcoin , the decentralized way of moving data, assets and communications would find a wide berth in business. That has been the conventional wisdom, anyway.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Standard Chartered is the latest financial institution to have completed a trade finance transaction via blockchain, the bank announced Thursday (Jan. Using the blockchain platform, Standard Chartered generated digital trade documents for Agrocorp to receive a chickpea shipment from its supplier.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne believes that blockchain might be the world’s greatest hope in ending global poverty. In an exclusive interview with FOX Business , Byrne said he is looking for suitors who may be interested in his new venture with world-renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto Polar to end poverty with blockchain technology.

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MARCH 31, 2020

“Harvest season is usually when farmers spend their capital, and timely payments is crucial, but the time to get paid is extremely varied depending on who you’re selling to. Mitigating Risk With Blockchain. Even the best payers can delay payment.” ” Farming’s Cash Flow Bottlenecks. Looping In The Banks.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Betting On Blockchain. For Inxeption, one of the most promising innovations to achieve this leap is blockchain. The company is also deploying blockchain to create a digital business identity for its users, a mechanism that Dibachi said will instill trust in the buyer-supplier relationship.

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Perficient

MARCH 30, 2023

The front office is screaming down to the Settlement Office, “Operations, we need more capital!” Adding blockchain to the supply chain improved visibility, allowed automatic purchases through smart contracts, and kept a permanent record of what had been ordered as well as status reporting of all items in the supply chain.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cryptocurrency-focused investment firms and organizations poured capital into the gift card company that says it focuses on “blockchain-powered payments.”

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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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AUGUST 11, 2020

In other news, Coinbase has left the Blockchain Association , an industry advocacy organization, The Block reported. Coinbase announced it was leaving the group, which is based in the nation’s capital, in a letter dated Aug.

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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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Perficient

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The industry has matured, with blockchain innovations extending beyond crypto enthusiasts and into mainstream finance. Traditional financial institutions are increasingly leveraging blockchain to address complex challenges, while the U.S. Emphasis on security, trust, and usability is essential for blockchains success.

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JULY 9, 2020

For some, like Currencycloud and Steamchain, the path involves bypassing legacy payment rails and embracing blockchain. In a statement, Nium Global Head of Commercial Payments Sanjiv Razdan said that it is particularly important today for companies to have this B2B payment flexibility and a solution to optimize working capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Davies served as CitiMortgage’s chief executive officer and Citibank’s head of global mortgage in addition to Capital One’s president of home loans. For banks and other financial institutions, the tide is shifting toward an embrace of blockchain for handling transactions.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the lifeblood of many economies — Europe’s among them — and working capital is the lifeblood of SMBs. Yet many firms struggle to gain access to the capital that helps them launch or sustain operations. One way to secure funding is to use invoice financing.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

HashCash Brings Blockchain Tech To Unnamed Bank. Although blockchain technology company HashCash Consultants did not name the FI, the company revealed it is collaborating with a bank in the U.S. to bring its blockchain-powered corporate trade financing technology into the entity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

And for blockchain, a few warning signs have been flashing that all may not be as rosy as some observers may have hoped, had wanted. This is not to say that blockchain is doomed. Exhibit A, of course, would be Long Island Iced Tea, which back in 2017 said it would change its name to Long Blockchain Corp.,

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

No, a survey released today by venture capital firm Blockchain Capital […]. Presently, a single bitcoin is worth just under $7,500. But do millennials trust that digital currency more than traditional banks?

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AUGUST 21, 2020

“It’s possible that the economic tumult may have prompted some capital flight from China, though much of the Tether movement could have been East Asia-based cryptocurrency traders moving their holdings to international exchanges in order to trade at a time when cryptocurrency price volatility was high,” Chainalysis wrote.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

And Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon unveiled a $108-million plan to make the capital into a blockchain-enabled smart city, Coindesk reported. He said that multiple public services such as elections and labor welfare will use the blockchain technology. Once it is a financial instrument it comes under a whole regulatory framework.”.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Arket , a brand of H&M , is piloting a blockchain product integration with the help of VeChain, TheNextWeb reported. A spokesperson told TNW , “Arket has done a small Proof of Concept (POC) through a pilot testing with VeChain to use blockchain technology to secure product data traceability in the value chain.”

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JANUARY 13, 2020

The round was led by UOB Venture Management, Seven Bank, Uni-President Asset Holdings, HashKey Capital, Hopeshine Ventures, Signum Capital, Du Capital and Hanwha Investment and Securities. “We The company is going to first focus on Southeast Asia.

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