At the Sibos conference in Singapore, SWIFT’s fintech innovation division Innotribe has named newcomer Hyperledger as the winner of the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge, giving the vendor exposure and a $50,000 cash prize. On its website, Hyperledger says it “uses revolutionary shared, replicated ledgers technology to provide a trustful, universal record of truth not controlled… Read More >>
SETL Hits Milestone via Internal Test of Blockchain Network
SETL, a recent fintech startup that means to apply virtual network Blockchain technology to financial services settlements, reports that its internal test network has “broken the 1 billion transactions-per-day capacity barrier.” The announcement comes as the FIX Trading Community, the messaging standards non-profit formed in 1998, reports separately that it has formed a working group… Read More >>
Firm58 Applies Telecom Lessons to the Back Office
Jim Mullen has seen more than his fair share of change during his 25-odd years in the telecommunications and financial services worlds, having lived through both the mobile phone explosion of the early nineties and the automation of financial markets that took off in the late nineties. Those revolutions left both industries in flux and… Read More >>
NYC FinTech Lab Calls for Entries
New York’s FinTech Innovation Lab, co-founded by Accenture ACN and the Partnership Fund for New York City, is now accepting applications for its fifth annual, 12-week program to “help early- and growth-stage financial technology (fintech) companies accelerate product and business development by gaining exposure to top bank and venture capital executives,” according to the Lab’s… Read More >>
