FINTECH

Less than a year ago, the online currency was trading at below $1,000 per coin but has since spiked in value despite pressure from financial giants.

Global media agency Mindshare partners with Singpore's high speed blockchain Zilliqa to test media applications

Infosys Finacle launched a pilot trade finance network with 11 banks to trial the Finacle Trade Connect solution.

Digix raised $1.25m in its seed round led by Japanese VC Global Brain, and joined by Fenbushi Capital, Asia's most active blockchain-focused venture capital fund.

Joel John, lead researcher for Blockchain-focused VC firm Outlier Ventures, looks at the history of blockchain's promise of financial inclusion.

Nigel Edwards, head of UK at EXL Service, says the spectre of fraud could be emboldened by the open banking rules.

NVIDIA will be offering a day-long training session on 5 December, as part of Newsweek's data science and capital markets event in New York next week.

Rather than robots, the most common applications for business will use machine or deep learning to automatically analyse big data - and will be available to all.

Joséphine de Chazournes, Senior Analyst at Celent and Arno Castanet, Solution Marketing Manager at Finastra explore how capital markets must evolve

Striking the right balance between convenience and security isn't just about replacing older payment methods with new technologies.

The private placements of C$15.3 million (£9m) will see Interbit go live in early 2018.

Christian Ball, Head of Retail Financial Services, GFT, looks AI, PSD2 and Banking as a Platform (BaaP).

The distribution of AI-enabled research is seen across three classes of adopters: advanced trading, competitive data scientists and master data scientists.

Austrian police say cyber-thieves transferred bitcoins worth more than €100,000 (£89,000, $117,000) from a man's account while he was logged into a restaurant's public WiFi.

Former CEO of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services joins the decentralised asset management technology developer as an advisor and member of Melon Foundation.

TOBAM has about $8.8bn in AUM and counts the California Public Employees' Retirement System as a minority shareholder.

Tether said it is now attempting to get the stolen funds back and also ensure that the hacker cannot spend the money.

New strategic investment enables faster blockchain deployments with Japanese businesses.

Frans Labuschagne is UK & Ireland country manager at Entersekt.

It's significant that Ethereum design studio, ConsenSys, has chosen London to host its 'European Hub'.

Enables seamless integration of SQL Database and in the future other services such as Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, and Express Route.

The London hub in Shoreditch has space for 60 ConsenSys members and sponsored projects.

Vishal Marria is CEO of Quantexa.

The process of 're-imagining' Singapore's interbank RTGS system using blockchain involved R3 Corda, JP Morgan Quorum and Hyperledger Fabric.

Bram Cohen explains how proofs of space and time can solve the sort of ASIC centralisation you find in Bitcoin.

WorldRemit and Arsenal partner to use the power of football to find a better way to connect communities.

The tZERO sale will begin on December 18, 2017 using the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (or SAFT).

After a careful analysis of the situation, the Parity confirmed that it was first made aware about the potential dangers of a coding vulnerability months before the incident.

The bank's Zero-Knowledge Range Proof (ZKRP) solution at the inaugural Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Event in Amsterdam.