FINANCE & BANKING

The two will explore the creation of "a next generation settlement service for the London gold market".

IBTimes UK explains the DAO cyber heist, and what's next for the Ethereum community and the hacker behind it.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos hosted a special Let's Talk Bitcoin show with Pamela Morgan, Brian Klein and Taylor Gerring.

Factom given $199,000 to advance the security of digital identity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Telia and Kairos Future are also part of the blockchain-based real estate transactions proof of concept.

Credits beat off stiff competition from runnersup Clearmatics, Everledger and Provenance.

Poundland has said that the 99p stores chain takeover had put pressure on the core business.

IBTimes UK talks to Prof Eli Ben-Sasson of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology on the Zerocash project.

CEO Vytautas Karalevičius says cryptocurrency is a top option because of 'usage for actual payments'.

British prime minister says UK should not risk its financial health by voting to split from the EU.

Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.

The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.

The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.

Trading of DigixDAO tokens is expected to begin on Bittrex on Tuesday, June 14 at 17:00 UTC.

IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.

London could be overtaken by Singapore as an offshore financial centre within four years

Four easy ways for young people to invest in stocks and bonds.

WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.

The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.

Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.

Matthew Connolly and Gavin Campbell Black have been charged with conspiracy to manipulate Libor rates.

IATA expects combined airline profit to total $39.4bn in 2016 compared with an initial forecast of $36.3bn.

European Central Bank opts to keep the deposit rate at -0.40% and the headline rate at 0.00% as expected.

Bank of England to launch new £5 polymer banknotes on Thursday as paper notes are phased out after 320 years.

Labour leader will make another major intervention in the EU referendum campaign on 2 June.

UK house prices climb 0.2% month-on-month in May and 4.7% year-on-year, according to Nationwide.

However, Vote Leave chair and Labour MP Gisela Stuart claims the EU has been a 'disaster' for workers.

Samsung Pay is restricted to Galaxy phones at the moment.

Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote