The Bank of Japan will launch sandbox experiments to settle bank reserves using blockchain technology. The initiative aims to enable 24/7 instant interbank and securities settlement while preserving ...

Swift is building blockchain infrastructure of its own, betting that its enormous banking network can remain central as ...

More than 75 banks globally have now joined a blockchain-based payment project led by JPMorgan Chase to test how to streamline cross-border transactions. According to the Financial Times, Societe ...

Proponents of blockchain technology, the distributed ledger system underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, view the technology’s applications as potentially providing significant efficiencies ...

IBM is building a blockchain proof-of-concept for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the food safety hawk within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), that will help it evaluate how ...

Harneys and droppRWA aim to issue the first catastrophe bond where legal ownership lives directly on a blockchain, targeting ...

Fear of who’s got the dreaded virus and who may look completely asymptomatic — and who, unwittingly, may be putting countless other people at risk. Shane Bigelow, CEO of Vital Chain, which uses ...

This year will test blockchain’s real-world viability, shifting the conversation from bold predictions to whether long-held assumptions about adoption, regulation and operations can hold up inside ...

A law firm and a tokenization platform want to put catastrophe bonds on a blockchain. The plan: a test issuance, a legal ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blockchain For Energy, the nation’s first energy industry blockchain consortium, has launched a Smart Contracts focused research and development (R&D) program. Facilitating ...

The Swiss town of Zug has announced a plan to measure the efficacy of blockchain-based vote counting systems at the municipal level. However, the votes themselves will be nonbinding and also ...