Germany’s financial regulator, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), has published a consumer warning today on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). BaFin said the purchase of crypto... Read more
The technology is being put to use in more prosaic fields like agriculture. Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at... Read more
Bahrain’s ongoing efforts to establish the Gulf nation as a regional center of financial innovation moved ahead this week with the announcement of Bahrain FinTech Bay, a facility designed to... Read more
SINGAPORE — On a cold winter’s night in 2014, a Wall Street trader and a programmer were having a rigorous discussion over a few glasses of beer at a borough in New York. In spite of being s... Read more
Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid contends that the fiat currency system “is inherently unstable and prone to high inflation.” China’s rapid economic emergence in the 1970s, a... Read more
A consortium including energy companies BP and Royal Dutch Shell will develop a blockchain-based digital platform for energy commodities trading expected to start by end-2018, the group said... Read more
The Bahrain Economic Development Board (“EDB”) and FinTech Consortium (“FTC”) announced today the launch of “Bahrain FinTech Bay” (“BFB”), the largest dedicated FinTech hub in the Middle Eas... Read more
The Dubai Land Department (DLD) has become the world’s first government agency to adopt blockchain technology for all of its transactions, with the development part of the emirate’s plans to... Read more
Bitcoin trade to be hit in India? Govt may shut down cryptocurrency dealers | Business Standard News
According to market experts, banning cryptocurrency dealers or exchanges would not work As bitcoins touch record levels, a government panel has advised closing cryptocurrency dealers in Indi... Read more
Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how... Read more
