(As featured in Reuters- October 20, 2016) Written by: Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss U.S.-based financial innovation start-up R3, along with 12 global banks, have completed the test of a cross-border payment system powered by blockchain technology and developed by financial technology [...]
(As featured in Cryptocoins News- October 10, 2016) Written by: Samburaj Das Ripple has reached an all-time high in market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap. Ripple’s CoinMarketCap chart threw up unexpected numbers this morning. Whether an error or a rabid [...]
(As featured in CoinDesk- October 13, 2016) Written by: Michael del Castillo With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup’s chief executive is making the pitch for a national ‘FinTech advisor’. Chris [...]
(As featured in Business Wire- October 7, 2016) Written by: Business Wire Team Newest feature helps consumers manage their credit cards more intelligently and right from their phones Prosper Marketplace announced today the release of Credit Card Optimizer™, a [...]
(As featured in The Wall Street Journal- September 15, 2016) Written by: Paul Vigna Ripple, the San Francisco-based startup building a bitcoin-like payments platform aimed at banks, announced a $55 million Series B funding round on Tuesday, bringing its [...]
(As featured in Pando- August 13, 2014) Written by: Michael Carney Don’t look now, but content is sexy again. After nearly a decade of being discounted by investors and entrepreneurs as a dying category, digital media companies are finally [...]
(As featured in The Wall Street Journal- June 30, 2016) Written by: Mike Shields Woven Digital, which owns a stable of young male-focused websites like BroBible andUproxx, has raised $18.5 million in series B funding to invest in more [...]
(As featured in Banking Technology- June 27, 2016) Written by: Tanya Andreasyan Canada’s ATB Financial sent €666.67 to ReiseBank in Germany using Ripple technology, with the transaction completing in eight seconds. The participants say this is the world’s first [...]
(As featured in Banking Technology- June 27, 2016) Written by: Tanya Andreasyan Canada’s ATB Financial sent €666.67 to ReiseBank in Germany using Ripple technology, with the transaction completing in eight seconds. The participants say this is the world’s first [...]
(As featured in CNBC’s “Tech Transformers”- June 22, 2016) Written by: Arjun Kharpal Several global banks including Santander and UBS are conducting real-world trials using blockchain technology for international cross-border payments, a move that could make the process faster [...]