2017 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking
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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Blockchain VC Fund Gets First Investors For New Ethereum-based ICO
Bank Innovation
APRIL 7, 2017
The world’s first venture capital fund raised with digital coin offering has gained its first round of investors, including executives from Bloq and Civic. 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.
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Ripple Invests $25M in Blockchain Capital
Bank Innovation
APRIL 11, 2018
Enterprise blockchain provider Ripple has made a $25 million investment in blockchain startup, Blockchain Capital, the company announced today. The growth of Blockchain Capital’s fund, which is now hovering at $150 million, will help support entrepreneurs and startups in the space.
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Guide to Genuine Innovation When Everyone Is ‘Innovating’
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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WSFS taps blockchain firm Intain to automate capital markets transactions
Bank Innovation
MARCH 11, 2020
WSFS Bank is working with Intain, a blockchain firm based in Chennai, India, to help automate capital markets transactions. based bank, a subsidiary of WSFS Financial, said it’s using Intain’s blockchain-based tool to facilitate trustee reporting for asset-backed securities transactions. The Wilmington, Del.-based
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ICOs Over VCs, Blockchain Investors Say
Bank Innovation
JUNE 9, 2017
Traditional venture capital is so passé. Blockchain investors are more interested in ICOs, or initial coin offerings, than traditional investment models, according to data from the Coindesk first quarter 2017 State of the Blockchain Report released this week.
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Blockchain VC Investment Nears $500M in 2016
Bank Innovation
MARCH 6, 2017
As the buzz around blockchain fades, so does the venture capital investment in the sector. Blockchain VC investment plateaued last year, nearing $500 million at yearend 2016 — only a 1% improvement, compared to 2015, according to State of Blockchain 2017 report published by Coindesk today.
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Meet the Most Innovative CEOs in Banking [SPONSORED]
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The finance landscape is witnessing some significant changes and disruptions due to fintech companies, blockchain technology, and AI. Innovation in this highly regulated field is necessary, and even giants are rising to the challenge and trying to get more customer-friendly, agile or at least aligned to the new standards set by start-ups.
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Blockchain-Powered B2B FinTech Roars Back With VCs
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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What’s the State of Banking Innovation in 2017?
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
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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3 Not-So Futuristic Blockchain Applications
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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Blockchain Startup BitPay Raises $40M for Asia Expansion
Bank Innovation
APRIL 3, 2018
BitPay, a blockchain payments company, closed a Series B of $40 million yesterday, the company announced. The money, as previously mentioned by the startup, will go towards expanding its international operations. The first stop for this expansion will be Asia.
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316 Blockchain Is Perfectly Suited for Banking, But Banking Is Not Ready for Blockchain, McKinsey Says
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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268 Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases I
Bank Innovation
MAY 9, 2016
Wholesale financial services has attracted more of the talk and the very early “walk” of blockchain use cases. 15 months ago when I officially committed to Fintech content creation in Capital markets and Wealth management; I was cautious not to discuss blockchain (still not included in Word’s standard dictionary).
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World Bank Lands $33M For Australian Blockchain Bond
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. This isn’t World Bank’s only blockchain project.
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190 ICOs Are Already Revolutionizing Fintech, Moeda CEO Says
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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Mphasis Teams With R3 On Blockchain Payment Solutions
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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Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases II
Bank Innovation
MAY 10, 2016
Izabella Kaminska at FTAlphaville, has done an excellent job of putting the current blockchain project-users cases in perspective. Is there a suspicion… Read more Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases II. She also mentions that all this versioning is introducing lots of new risks.
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Wells Fargo Invests $5M In Blockchain Analysis Startup Elliptic
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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China, Alibaba Are Big Players On The Blockchain Patent Block
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
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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201 Microsoft’s Blockchain Guru Marley Gray Joins Speaker Faculty
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
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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B2B Innovators Explore The New Payment Rail Combinations
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. CardUp Mixes Rails To Enable Card Payments.
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220 Treasurers Watching FinTech Innovation To Get An Upgrade
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Capital One’s Treasury Management Group is already looking ahead to how corporate treasurers will face the most modern of challenges in 2017. For Capital One, approaching the future of treasury management means collaboration. “We’re
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Brexit A Boon For Blockchain?
PYMNTS
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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How FinTechs View Emerging B2B Payment Innovations In 2020
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Blockchain. Praeger noted there is still attention surrounding blockchain, but it hasn’t been the game-changer that many people in the industry had expected. There’s still a lack of consensus around things like the right platform and the right interface that are keeping it from becoming more mainstream,” he said.
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238 Santander, Ripple Use Blockchain To Settle Global Payments
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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Banks Leave Blockchain Behind and Take to the Cloud
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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We Have Passed Peak Blockchain Investment
Bank Innovation
JULY 7, 2016
As the summer heats up, blockchain hype may (finally) be cooling down. 2016 will likely see less investment in bitcoin and blockchain technology, but that is true for many other areas, as well. This year to date has seen $161 million invested so far, while 2015 saw a total of Read More.
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210 Blockchain Tries To Jolt B2B eCommerce Into The Digital Age
PYMNTS
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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4 Startups to Watch: Templum, AppZen, NKM Capital, and More
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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Blockchain Makes Headway Over Legacy X-Border Rails
PYMNTS
JULY 9, 2020
There’s no single path to payments infrastructure innovation. For some, like Currencycloud and Steamchain, the path involves bypassing legacy payment rails and embracing blockchain. And still for others, like InstaReM, payments innovation involves a mix of infrastructure. Steamchain Lands Investment For Blockchain Tech.
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Bitcoin Daily: Australian Hacker Gets Jail Time In Crypto Theft; Coinbase Leaves Blockchain Association
PYMNTS
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. Clients had to previously ask to harness the company’s technologies for software creation.
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Three Years On, Open Banking Broadens For Business Banking
PYMNTS
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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Blockchain Tracker: Blockchain Technology’s Impact On Global Transactions
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
As such, there’s a need to simplify all of these complex finance routes, and blockchain technology seems to be the anchor for this. By 2020, over 80 percent of bankers expect to see commercial adoption of blockchain, according to a recent study conducted by Infosys Finacle. Big transformations of this scale can take quite a while.
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156 ‘Bitcoin Queen’ Margaux Avedisian Joins Bank Innovation 2018
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
EXCLUSIVE- If 2016 was the year of blockchain in financial services, the boom in cryptocurrency values in 2017 brought the banks’ attention back to the world of tokens and coins. Margaux Avedisian, executive vice president of Transform PR, has been on top of the bitcoin world for years now — centuries in cryptocurrency terms.
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199 Moving beyond experiments to solving payments in capital markets with blockchains
Bobsguide
JANUARY 3, 2018
It has been no secret that banks are thoroughly testing blockchain applications and some have even begun to apply the technology to key business ventures. However, while most would agree that innovation is pivotal to global banking’s. Arjun Jayaram, Founder & CEO, Baton Systems.
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128 Digital Check Solution Checkbook.io Makes Headway in Auto Finance
Bank Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2018
David Brydun, vice president of consumer lending, exclusively told Bank Innovation that the financial institution has partnered with Checkbook.io on a digital check issuance solution that utilizes blockchain. “A Baxter Credit Union, based in N.J., has found a new solution to an old, and costly problem.
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Island Nation Mauritius To Set Up Fintech Fund
Bank Innovation
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
According to reports, high-level Fintech and Innovation-driven Financial Services Regulatory Committee panel met last week to discuss the possibility of the fund that would focus on, among other things, fraud, security, and blockchain. The island nation of Mauritius will now have a sovereign fund dedicated to investment in fintech.
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276 Artificial Intelligence Takes Priority on Banks’ Innovation Plans
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Banks and fintech ranked artificial intelligence and machine learning as their top innovation priority, according to a Bank Innovation survey. Bank Innovation asked people in the banking and fintech community to list what’s top on their innovation wish list.
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Bitcoin Daily: Security Matters Seeks Blockchain Cannabis Tracker Patent; PwC Starts Taking Crypto Payments
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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166 China Accelerates Blockchain Patent Activity
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that comes from the creative endeavor. More than half, or 56 percent of all blockchain patents issued last year trace their genesis from China.
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123 JPMorgan Chase’s Adam Carson to Do Fireside Chat at Bank Innovation 2017
Bank Innovation
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more. Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co.,
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Real Time Equities Settlement – three Blockchain projects at exchanges
Bank Innovation
MARCH 3, 2016
Real Time Equities Settlement will change the global capital markets beyond recognition, impacting every player in the ecosystem. For long a technological pipedream, Real Time Equities Settlement is nudging closer to reality thanks to Blockchain technology.
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Blockchain Unchained: Paxos CEO Sees Expanded Role For Token-Based Digital Assets
PYMNTS
JANUARY 11, 2021
Although blockchain technology and Bitcoin, its best-known inhabitant, have been around for 10 years, the world is just now entering a seismic transition from holding account-based assets to a system that uses token-based digital assets. Hamstringing American Innovation. s ability as a country to effectively innovate.
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