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In 2014, Tezos proposed a blockchain offering a voting procedure for stakeholders to approve amendments.

BBVA, CIBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Natixis, Nordea, Northern Trust, Société Générale, UBS and US Bank worked on the KYC system.

National Settlement Depository is working with iCoinSoft as part of the blockchain-focused fintech programme.

Blockchain will 'change the culture of the world', says renowned cyber expert

Coloured coins specialist Colu has been part of local digital currency experiments in Barbados, Brazil and Israel.

The R3 Asia Lab will host a dedicated research and development centre as well as a physical Centre of Excellence.

Blockchain remittance specialist Epiphyte is testing its technology in the FCA's sandbox.

Unocoin, the largest Bitcoin trading platform in India, recently raised $1.5m and partnered with Blockstream.

Rootstock has also officially unveiled its smart contracts based platform at laBITconf, Argentina.

Richard Crook, head of Innovation Engineering at RBS talks about a cross border payment system using distributed ledger technology.

Regulators are 'acutely aware' of the need to monitor for financial innovation.

Srinivasan Sriram, CEO of Skuchain, begins a series of interviews about his vision for the future of supply chains.

Developers allow users to purchase titles and in-game items and earn money using cryptocurrency.

Tendermint founder Jae Kwon and CTO Ethan Buchman recently launched Cosmos, a hub to connect blockchains.

A gang is selling forged season tickets on the Dark Web that cost half as much as real train tickets.

The deal promises data on intraday pricing for more that 50 digital currencie like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple's XRP.

Bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver points out that Ethereum's contentious hard fork was no disaster - far from it.

Volumes on the three major exchanges: Huobi, OKCoin and BTCC have reached about 7m BTC in a 24 hour period.

'Consumer preferences for financial products and services are changing rapidly,' says the OCC.

The Blockchain Insurance Summit will take place in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 November, 2016.

Security of the blockchain remains a major concern, Accenture reveals.

Synereo announced a grant project inviting developers to build decentralised applications for its platform.

Zeek allows Bitcoin users to shop with John Lewis, Debenhams, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

The integration is scheduled to come into effect a few days after the Zcash genesis block is mined (28 October).

ConsenSys and BlockApps will gain access to Synechron's 6,000-person global team of specialised financial services consultants.

It is also partnered with healthcare API provider Pokitdok, invoicing app Viewpost and analytics provider ClearGraph.

Synchrony Financial is the first credit card company to join R3's consortium of more than 70 large financial institutions.

Many believe price is driven by Chinese speculators and investors returning to Bitcoin following the recent yuan devaluation.

R3 said liquidity efficiencies and nostro consolidations can save banks up to 60% in payment processing costs with Ripple.

The German Mobility Award is an exclusive, national recognition awarded to only ten projects out of 450 applications.