Erin Lace

World experts commented to Cointelegraph regarding the announcement of Wim Raymaekers, Head of Banking and Treasury Markets at SWIFT.

Bittiraha.fi and Bitcoinkaupat.com opened the first Bitcoin ATM in the largest shopping centre of Finnish capital

Coinizy launches the world’s first Bitcoin to PayPal exchange option. This new option promises to simplify Bitcoin to fiat exchanges and withdrawals.

CCEDK released a new currency called Obits that offers holders a share garnered from trading and referrals on the OpenLedger platform.

Bitwage announced today the closure of the funding round to build the Future of Payroll with $760,000

New mobile payments start-up Bitholla, which allows peer-to-peer payments in digital currencies from any mobile wallet of the user’s choosing, has arrived.

A group of 32 startups, investors and startup accelerators call for the Australian government to bring major innovation to the federal financial technology industry.

George Osborne, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, has to resolve the problem of getting a bank account in the United Kingdom for Bitcoin-related companies.

One of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges Coinbase has recently announced major updates to its mobile app that will allow traders to monitor Bitcoin trading activity "on the go".

Bitcoin security platform BitGo announced the launch of the first automated open source Key Recovery Service (KRS) software that allows generating, securing and storing private backup keys

Three more banks have announced joining the Distributed Ledger Group (DLG) and R3 Blockchain consortium that include Mizuho Bank, UniCredit and Nordea.

Payment service provider and future BitRuble issuer Qiwi are launching a series of blockchain focused master classes called “Promising Distribution”

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched new Web Payments Working Group to examine ways for easier adoption of payment instrument improvements or new payment instruments.

Holberton Software Engineering School announced it will become the first school to deliver academic certificates that are secured and accessible via Bitcoin’s blockchain.

A study by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm shows that Sweden is on track to become the world’s first cashless country.

Bitcоin Fоundаtiоn Ukraine supervisory board member Yuriy Kostiv is running for the deputy's seat at the Kiev Council of Deputies and is looking to bring its principles of decentralized management to Ukraine’s capital.

BitcoinPay has announced the launch of plugin for stores using the OpenCart Online Shopping Solution that allows integrating digital money payments into their e-commerce platforms.

NeuCoin (NEU), a cryptocurrency specifically designed to aid the implementation of online microtransactions and tipping within online products and services, finally launched September 23

Five banks in Russia have undergone a DDoS-attack according to Artyom Sychev, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Security and Information Protection of Russia’s Central Bank.

LottoShares is the world’s first digital asset tied to a physical lottery that will use blockchain technology for proof of fairness and 100% transparency, which could unravel the lottery business as we know it.

Hackers have broken into football star Alexander Kerzhakov’s e-mail account and are looking to sell 904 letters from the player’s correspondence for at least 40 bitcoins during a “private auction”

Azerbaijan is actively discussing the possibility of creating a “Cryptomanat” coin – the cryptocurrency equivalent of its national currency, the Azerbaijani manta, reports the Echo local newspaper.

Russian payment service provider Qiwi has registered all domain names such as bitrouble.com, bitrouble.org, bitru.rf, and bitrub.li, according to the Russian newspaper “Kommersant.”

A decentralized project called Refugee Emergency Response was recently launched by Bitnation to help resolve the current refugee crisis in Europe by registering undocumented individuals on the blockchain.

This week ARK Investment became the first ETF to invest in Bitcoin, purchasing publicly traded shares of Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which are linked to the price of bitcoin directly, for ARK’s Web x.0 ETF fund.

Swiss banking giant UBS is developing a new blockchain-based currency "settlement coin" – a digital currency that’s backed by fiat money and fits into the existing regulatory framework.

Russian payment service provider Qiwi has reportedly invested “several hundred million rubles” to develop the first cryptocurrency designed for the Russian market.

A Blockchain lab is scheduled to launch in the UK next month as a result of Innovate Finance teaming up with Hartree Centre to explore the opportunities offered by blockchain technology.

Recently the Russian State Duma adopted amendments to the law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security" that will enable Moscow to tighten its grip on the Internet.

While Russian authorities are scratching their heads about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is being put in the spotlight in the center of Moscow.