Today David Marcus, CEO of Facebook’s Calibra subsidiary, faced two hours of questions from the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking...
Author - Nicky Morris
Blockchain startup processes $1 billion in trade finance
Yesterday Singapore based dltledgers announced that in the last 18 months it has processed more than $1 billion in trade finance on its...
AON says supply exceeds demand for cryptocurrency insurance
Highlights Most believe there’s insufficient supply of digital asset insurance There’s more supply than last year as...
Hapag-Lloyd, ONE join IBM Maersk TradeLens shipping blockchain
Today TradeLens announced the addition of the world’s fifth and sixth largest shipping carriers Hapag-Lloyd and Singapore-based...
JP Morgan plans JPM Coin bond pilot later this year
Today JP Morgan told Bloomberg that the company plans to start piloting its JPM Coin later in the year, subject to regulatory approval...
IBM encounters blockchain headwinds as Hyperledger forges ahead
Highlights IBM’s first live blockchain we.trade takes tech work in-house IBM cuts blockchain staff Head of IBM blockchain...
Energy Web launches enterprise-grade public blockchain with world’s biggest power companies
Today the Energy Web Foundation (EWF) announced its public blockchain is live. The group boasts 100 affiliate members and is expecting...
McKinsey explores retail bank caution about blockchain
McKinsey & Co published an article analyzing retail banking’s cautious approach to blockchain, especially in comparison to...
Blockchain trade finance consortia face challenges as they go live
At this week’s Consortia 2019 conference for blockchain trade finance, there was talk that the sector is in the “trough of...
Willis Towers Watson exec sees blockchain insurance incumbent disruption in 5-7 years
In advance of the Blockchain for Insurance conference in London on June 18-19th, we interviewed blockchain and insurance innovation...