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Banking Giant ING Is Quietly Becoming a Serious Blockchain Innovator

Dutch bank ING, which made a splash last year with a modification to zero-knowledge proofs, is adding another innovative wrinkle to privacy in DLT.

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Bank of America Is Closing My Three-Year-Old's Account Over Crypto

My daughter is 3 years old. Bank of America is closing her account because of her “risk profile” and a highly indirect “connection” to cryptocurrency.

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Court Forces Chile's Banks to Reopen Crypto Exchange Accounts

A Chilean court has ordered banks to reopen the accounts of crypto exchanges after the institutions announced their plans to close them in March.

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Ripple Says Sales of XRP Cryptocurrency Rose 83% In Q1

While XRP's price has fallen since the end of the year, Ripple's sales of the cryptocurrency are stronger than ever.

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BBVA Issues $91 Million Loan Using Two Blockchains

Spanish banking giant BBVA has completed a pilot that issued a $91 million corporate loan using two different blockchain technologies.

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Barclays, Goldman Champion ISDA Standard for Blockchain Derivatives

U.K.-based bank Barclays is pushing hard for a data standard for derivatives, as a foundation for that market to adopt distributed ledger technology.

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1 in 5 Financial Institutions Exploring Crypto Trading, Survey Finds

A survey conducted by Thomson Reuters found that around 20 percent of its financial services clients are mulling trading cryptocurrencies in 2018.

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'WordPress of Blockchain' Startup Seeks to Solve Enterprise Pain Points

Elemential, which is based in Mumbai, India, seeks to remove the pain of “blockchain administration."

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JPMorgan Trial Puts Debt Issuance on a Blockchain

JPMorgan Chase has partnered with National Bank of Canada and others to trial a blockchain platform aimed to improve the debt issuance process.

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Blockchain Slump? Banks May Be Fatigued But Insurers Are Pumped

Giving progress reports on their blockchain projects, bankers come across browbeaten and anxious, while their cousins in insurance sound spritely.

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