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Blockchain healthcare innovation firm Hashed Health announced in a press release it sent to CoinReport a partnership with the Illinois Blockchain Initiative to leverage distributed ledger/blockchain technologies. The pilot program will identify opportunities to improve the...

Citigroup Inc. (Citi) announced, in a press release CoinReport received, a partnership with acclaimed graduate institution Cornell Tech to engage with Cornell University researchers, faculty, students, startups and other companies and form closer bonds between industry and...

Synechron Inc., the technology, business consulting and digital services provider, announced in a press release sent to CoinReport, results of a distributed ledger or blockchain survey conducted by TABB Group. Results showed that 94% of financial services executives believe...

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has announced that it has become the first bank in the Middle East to go live on a blockchain for real-time cross-border payments. The NBAD is employing Ripple’s distributed ledger or blockchain. Originally named Opencoin and renamed Ripple...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced in a press release sent to CoinReport that it has selected IBM, Axoni and R3 to get a blockchain or distributed ledger...

Chipmaker Intel published a plan to develop its own distributed ledger named Sawtooth Lake, International Business Times reports. The goal of the distributed ledger is to provide companies that don’t need a central authority the ability to run their own blockchains. Data...

Richard G. Brown, CTO of the financial innovation firm R3, confirmed Tuesday in a corporate blog post that the company and its member banks are collaborating on a distributed ledger platform for financial services called Corda. Designed to record, manage and synchronize financial...

New York-based blockchain technology startup Ribbit.me closed a $1.5 million seed round, according to a press release sent to CoinReport. Hayaat Group, a Dubai-based investment company, led the round with Privity FZ LLC acting as its advisor. “We are the first company to...

Fintech innovation firm R3 CEV announced in a press release last week that a ground-breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions had been successfully completed. In the experiment, R3 and the banks – Barclays, BMO Financial...