Financial Systems News

The government of Hong Kong is planning to create a Blockchain technology-based trade financing system.

Bitcoin and other cryptos have the power to break people out of poverty and free them from the systemic lack of financial inclusion.

Feel the imminent collapse of the world’s rigged financial system? Our future is crypto capital markets, says Nick Ayton the Sage of Shoreditch.

Is the Netherlands equipping itself to be the next big innovator in the blockchain world?

Cointelegraph spoke with the CEO of Coinsetter and CAVirtex, Jaron Lukasiewicz, about their new margin trading program, their plans following the purchase of Canada’s largest crypto exchange

Former JP Morgan credit default swap pioneer, Blythe Masters, believes that distributed digital ledgers have the potential to empower business models and will fundamentally change how our financial world operates.

Cointelegraph spoke with Mark A. Calabria, the Director of Financial Regulation Studies at Cato Institute, about the institute’s views on Bitcoin.

Overstock takes steps toward issuing blockchain-secured stocks by purchasing a 25% stake in trading firm Pro Securities.

In light of the Murray report released in November, the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADCCA) welcomes the several recommendations issued by the Financial Systems Inquiry, including broadening the types of entities that qualify for an Australian Financial Services License and have access to the Government's Document Verification Service, as well as developing a national strategy group, dubbed the "Innovation Collaboration."

Bitcoin API provider Chain raised US$9.5M in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to US$13.7M.