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IBM launches blockchain partnership for improved cross-border payments
Working in collaboration with technology partners Stellar.org and KlickEx Group, the innovative solution is intended to improve the speed in which banks both clear and settle payment transactions on a single network in near real time.
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- Finance
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Chinese money dominates bitcoin, now its companies are gunning for blockchain tech
I meet Jack Liao, who runs a bitcoin mining firm called Lightning Asic. He leads me through a dark hutong, coming to a set of carved wooden double-doors. Pushing them open, we enter into the courtyard of a palatially renovated villa. This is my first look at the elusive “bitcoin club.”
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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- blockchain, cryptocurrency, fintech
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How Blockchain Could Transform The Way International Aid Is Distributed
A new digital-payment platform from the United Nations’ World Food Programme is bringing efficiency and stability to refugee camps.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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China to Shut Bitcoin Exchanges
The policy shift in the world's No. 2 economy shows how nations are wrestling with bitcoin and its place in the financial system.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- blockchain, cryptocurrency
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Blockchain company ConsenSys launches $50m venture capital arm to tackle global challenges
ConsenSys is the brainchild of its founder, Joseph Lubin, who also was a co-founder of Ethereum, a blockchain technology. ConsenSys develops applications and tools based on Ethereum and is a founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
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- Technology
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How Blockchain Is Kickstarting the Financial Lives of Refugees
Finland’s digital money system for asylum seekers shows what blockchain technology can offer the unbanked.
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- Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- blockchain, fintech, refugees
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How this social entrepreneur is bringing banks to the fingertips of the unbanked
Humaniq was launched in 2016 with a vision to build a world where the unbanked and underbanked around the world also have access to the banking and financial transactions. An estimated 2 billion people can be brought under the umbrella of financial inclusion with Humaniq’s services.
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- North America
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Start Network tests blockchain technology for foreign aid distribution
Start Network, a global network of 42 international NGOs including Oxfam and Save the Children, has partnered with social enterprise start-up Disberse to test blockchain technology in the distribution of foreign aid.
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- Technology