A PwC Switzerland executive said that among the various types of digital asset, only digital currencies are can reasonably be used at present, according to a post on the PwC website July 31. In the post,

Everyone's familiar with the blockchain hype when it comes to large banks, multinationals and institutions, but what's less familiar is that distributed ledger tech could be no less revolutionary for small

The Securities Division of the Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina has removed cease-and-desist orders against two blockchain startups, according to public documents published July 26. Today’s

A South Korean blockchain company has struck a deal that will see it provide fintech solutions to the government of Mauritius. The East African island nation is looking to modernize its operations, and

The Tezos Foundation has announced that the international professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland (PwC) will conduct an external audit of its finances and operations. In an official

Google is joining the list of tech giants to deploy blockchain technology to offer customers fintech and cloud service solutions, according to an official statement Monday, July 23. Google announced that

A study on issues of competition in fintech, commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), was published July 20. It found that central bank-issued digital

Global Head of Digital at HSBC, Josh Bottomley, said that the bank is “cautiously looking” at cryptocurrency use cases, Forbes reported July 19. In an interview with Forbes, Bottomley said that HSBC is

On July 20, the Supreme Court of India will hold a hearing regarding the state of cryptocurrencies in the country. It is a decisive date for the local crypto industry that has been significantly suppressed

Pan-African financial services company Old Mutual Limited has released an annual Savings and Investment Monitor survey for South Africa, which polled respondents on awareness of and attitude toward

SIX Group, the parent company of Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, has revealed that it is “open” to the possibility of offering cryptocurrency trading services on its digital trading platform. The

New York state regulators have approved a new electricity rate scheme for cryptocurrency miners that will allow them to negotiate contracts, Bloomberg reported July 12. According to Bloomberg, several

India is not going to put a blanket ban on digital currencies, but rather treat them as commodities, an anonymous source in the government told news outlet Quartz July 11. According to Quartz, a Finance

The EU Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive came into force yesterday, July 9, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports July 10. Measures within the directive will set a new legal framework for European financial

Online physical commodities exchange Open Mineral is planning to build a consortium of mining companies and financial organizations to develop a blockchain-based mineral trading system, according to a

According to South Korean central bank the Bank of Korea (BOK), the outstanding balance of virtual currency accounts in domestic banks totalled $1.79 billion as of Dec. 2017, local news outlet Yonhap reported

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) has announced that former Chief Information Officer of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Robert Cornish has joined the company, according to

Amsterdam-based speed trader Flow Traders NV has entered the cryptocurrency market despite the warnings of the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) not to buy and sell digital currencies, Bloomberg

The Parliament of Malta has passed three bills into law that establish a regulatory framework for blockchain technology, local news outlet Malta Today reported July 4. The bills include the Malta Digital

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled the 29 successful companies to apply to the fourth cohort of the regulator’s sandbox, whereof 40 percent are using distributed ledger technologies