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Antshares sets out to be the people’s digital asset blockchain
Antshares promises “Digital Assets for everyone.” The organization's platform and cryptosecurity is designed to be a useful asset digitization platform for the mainstream user. Existing in the space between Ethereum and Counterparty, “Antshares is about building a financial system bridging the real-world assets.”
‘Bottom line: Bitcoin bad, Blockchain better,’ claims Credit Suisse
Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse is a leading global private bank and wealth manager. The company reported $1.25 trillion under management in 2016, has operations in about 50 countries, and 47,180 employees from over 150 different nations.
Blockchain an ‘essential’ tech for CEOs, states PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is one of the world’s largest professional services firms in the world. With headquarters in London, the company operates in 157 countries, boasts 756 locations and employs 200,000 people. The company ended 2015 with global revenues reaching US $35.4b.
JPMorgan Chase urges asset managers to adopt blockchain
JPMorgan Chase & Co, and an international management consulting firm, Oliver Wyman, recently released a guide encouraging blockchain technology adoption amongst asset managers: “The report is designed to serve as a guide to how the technology may evolve, the impact it may have on asset managers and the action they can take.”
Whaleclub: Trading powered by bitcoin and only bitcoin
Whaleclub Director of Operations, Petar Zivkovski, along with Director of Marketing and Business Development, Jessica Lee, took over operations of Whaleclub in October 2015. This was merely a year after TradingView members founded the Club as a real-time feed of bitcoin trade ideas, supplied primarily from the TradingView and Teamspeak communities.
Western Union won’t make the same mistake with Blockchain
Digital Currency Group is an investment firm founded in March 2015, by prolific Angel Investor Barry Silbert. The company has invested in 72 different companies, more than two-thirds of which operate in the bitcoin space. In the last four months alone, the company acquired the biggest bitcoin news site, CoinDesk, and along with it, the biggest bitcoin conference. The company already had investments in Bitpay, the industries leading payment service provider, as well as coinbase and Kraken, two of the largest platforms for trading bitcoin.
Global remittances slow, while regulation restricts access
In the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, released earlier this month, remittance only grew marginally last year. Remittances to developing countries amounted to $431.6 billion in 2015, an increase of 0.4 percent over 2014. Although still growth, the pace is the slowest since the global financial crisis. Global remittances, which include those to high-income countries, contracted by 1.7 percent in 2015, to $581.6 billion.
UK Cabinet Minister, Rt Hon Matt Hancock, spearheads government blockchain adoption
The Imperial College of London's Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering and Digital Catapult ran a policy hack day for UK government representatives on the 26th April, in order to help government officials identify possible applications of blockchain technology in public service delivery. The event was attended by representatives from policy, academia and government, with in-depth discussions around how and when blockchain could be applied in a broad variety of government use cases.
Ethereum powered HEAL Bonds join fight against AIDS
On June 5 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Report describing a rare lung infection in five young, previously healthy, men. They all had other, unusual, infections as well, indicating that their immune systems were failing. Two of the patients had died by the time the report is published, and it marks the first official reporting of what became known as the AIDS epidemic.
Manulife to explore wealth management blockchain application, partners focus on Ethereum
Manulife Financial is a Canadian-based financial services company, offering a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services. As of 31st December 2015, the company had US$676b in assets under management and administration. More than 16,000 Canadian businesses entrust their employee benefit programs to Manulife’s Group Benefits, while Manulife Private Wealth offers a seamless and integrated approach to wealth management for affluent clients.
