fintech
Bitcoin Owes Success to Three Different Waves of Innovators
Cryptocurrency is a complicated mixture of several different fields, which contributes to the difficulty people have in understanding it. Even the term is confusing...
OmiseGo Unphazed by China’s ICO Ban
OmiseGo has moved to stamp out rumors about the company possibly being impacted by China’s crackdown on ICOs. Through a Reddit post OmiseGo reassured everyone that China’s...
Octo3 Pushes Forward ICO Despite Hong Kong Regulator’s Warning
Fintech company Octo3 Group is going forward with the firm’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) contrary to the recent warning of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures...
Bitcoin in 2020
By now, many Bitcoin enthusiasts are trying to work out a realistic projection for Bitcoin over the next few years.
From analyst Ronnie Moas who...
Dubai Goes Blockchain to Become Fintech Hub for The East
Having discovered and bought Bitcoin in the early 2010s, I initially had a hard time convincing my peers in the Middle East about the...
Australian Senators Call On the Reserve Bank to Back Bitcoin
Senators in Australia are putting their political differences aside and are banding together to urge the Reserve Bank to back bitcoin as an official...
11 Banks Develop DLT Trade Finance App Using R3’s Corda Software
A group of eleven banks have developed a trade finance application using technology developed by distributed ledger startup R3.
The firm announced today that the...
UBS COO: Fintech Is Changing Finance, but Cryptos And ICOs Roles Remain Uncertain
While fintech has the capacity to disrupt established business models and improve productivity and profitability, its impact on banks is hard to predict. Hence, financial institutions with thousands...