The Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has formed the Dubai Future Council for Blockchain in order to foster blockchain implementation in various sectors. According to the press release published on Zawya, the Council is...

European financial services giant Nordea has announced that it is launching blockchain-based we.trade platform for its small and middle-sized business customers (SMEs). Built on the IBM Blockchain platform using...

Samsung SDS, the IT subsidiary of Samsung, is planning to include blockchain technology in its enterprise solution packages, CoinDesk reported. CEO Hong Won-pyo revealed the plans at the recently held Samsungs Real 2019...

South Koreas Financial Services Commission (FSC) has announced nine additional financial services that have been approved to be tested in the financial regulatory sandbox. The FSC launched the sandbox on April 01, 2019...

Austrian banking giant Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has joined Marco Polo, a trade finance network on R3s Corda blockchain platform. Launched in September 2017, Marco Polo is a platform developed by the worlds...

Voltron, a blockchain-based trade finance initiative, recently completed trials involving the simulation of multiple digital Letter of Credit transactions with more than 50 banks and corporates, Finextra...

Tech giant Microsoft has released the new Azure Blockchain Development Kit for the Ethereum blockchain. Chris Pietschmann, Microsoft MVP and founder of BuildAzure.com, made the announcement in a blog post on May...

​Indian IT giant Wipro, in collaboration with blockchain startup R3, has developed a blockchain-based solution prototype to enable digital currency for interbank settlements in Thailand. The prototype has been developed...

Syniverse, a telecom services provider, and tech giant IBM have successfully trialed a blockchain-based mobile roaming solution with two international telecommunication companies, Orange and Mobile TeleSystems...

The World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based non-profit organization that aims to improve the state of the world, is teaming up with more than 100 organisations on a blockchain initiative. In a press release dated May...

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has opened a new Customer Development Environment (CDE) as part of its efforts to replace Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) with a blockchain-based system. The...

International coffee chain Starbucks has teamed up with tech titan Microsoft to trace coffee using blockchain technology, GeekWire reported. In March 2018, Starbucks revealed its plans to launch a pilot program its...

Enterprise blockchain project Hyperledger has announced the opening up of Hyperledger Iroha 1.0 for general availability. Hyperledger Iroha is a blockchain platform implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects...

A test advertising campaign using blockchain technology achieved a 28% increase in efficiency, Mindshare, a WPP-owned media agency network, said in a press release. Mindshare carried out the test in March 2019 in the...