FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 18 March 2022
Our pick of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
ConsenSys
Blockchain firm ConsenSys lands $450m Series D funding
Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Microsoft all contributed to the latest funding round.
Blockchain firm ConSensys raises $65m from major banks
ConSensys raises cash following company restructure.
JP Morgan’s blockchain platform Quorum moves to Brooklyn
JP Morgan has also made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys.
Digital security firm Trustology gets $8m funding
ConsenSys’ cybersecurity baby is doing well.
Sibos 2018: Banks and crypto lovers battle it out
Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, has something to say.
ConsenSys drums up $6.5m blockchain funding for DrumG
Former R3 founders to build their first banking solution on Ethereum.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 8 February 2018
Features Binance down, a “Crypto Rich List”, and VMS Software and Swirlds.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 1 February 2017
The world moves fast, so you need a fast read. A round-up of key events to save you time. PayCommerce, an open cross-border payments network, has completed its real-time, cross-border payment, clearing and settlement testing. It is the first phase of its multi-country global roll out strategy and was done between the US and India. […]
Microsoft unveils blockchain-based identity system
Microsoft is collaborating with Blockstack Labs and ConsenSys, and developers across the globe on an open source, self-sovereign, blockchain-based identity system. The announcement by Microsoft follows its participation at the United Nations’ ID2020 Summit on Identity. Yorke Rhodes, blockchain business strategist, Microsoft, says: “Without legal identification, children and people are invisible to society which makes […]
