The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has stated its opposition  to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s endorsement of regulatory “sandboxes” for fintech companies that…

Factom (FCT) has filed a new patent today with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that allows verification of documents on a blockchain with multiple digital signatures…

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies may have continued to endure a bear market during the second quarter of 2018, but that did not stop digital payments firm Square…

KPMG released its bi-annual “The Pulse of Fintech” report detailing a large increase in blockchain business spending in 2018. Blockchain Moves Beyond Experimentation KPMG, one of the…

Tech giant IBM and forex settlement provider CLS are collaborating in testing a platform known as LedgerConnect that will make it possible for banks, software vendors, and…

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has opened a dedicated blockchain laboratory to explore its potential use case in healthcare applications. The Center for Biomedical…

The association announced it’s pushing for a fintech platform using blockchain technology. The new registrar system will cut issuance times in more than half. The Thai Bond…

The Tianya Community in China, a social network of 130 million users that seeks to create the country’s most influential platform for content and knowledge creation, has…

Iran is preparing to launch its own “indigenous” state cryptocurrency that authorities envision will help the country circumvent the latest economic sanctions enforced by U.S. President Donald…

The president and CEO of Mastercard, Ajay Banga, has used the J-word again. Speaking in New York, Banga termed cryptocurrencies ‘junk’ arguing that the factors that made…