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Walmart Testing Blockchain Technology for Supply Chain Management
U.S. retail giant, Walmart, is about to start a major test of blockchain technology for supply chain management, The Wall Street Journal reports. A pilot project, which will start in the first quarter of 2017 and run for four months, plans to leverage distributed ledger technology to track and trace pork in China and produce in the U.S. — two high-volume product categories with large markets.
Global Banks and Financial Operators Using Stellar to Create a Global Payment Network
Stellar is announcing four new partnerships with financial institutions that will enable low cost global money transfers to the Philippines, India and Europe, and...
Op-Ed: China’s Mining Subsidies Create Tension With Free Trade Rules
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's tempting to treat everything as a nail. Thus, most people in the technically-oriented NewsCapsule...
SEC Panelists on “Astonishing” But “Not Very Sexy” Blockchain: Achieving Network Effect Will Produce Winners
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is recognized as amazing to some and potentially valuable to many others in the financial services sector, according to various...
Learning Machine and Blockcerts Want Students to “Own Their Own Records” via Blockchain Credentialing
Learning Machine plans to take its new NewsCapsule blockchain certification solution to the commercial market in 1Q 2017. This is less than a year...
Chain Releases Open-Source Version of Chain Core Technology Powering Visa’s New B2B Connect
On October 21, 2016, Visa announced a new partnership with blockchain enterprise company Chain that will develop “a simple, fast and secure way to process B2B payments...
Interview: Dash and Coinfirm on Digital Currency Compliance Partnership
The effective management of regulatory requirements is vital to the continued advancement of the digital currency industry. Dash, a privacy-centric, open-source, digital money ecosystem,...
Kyckr’s Rob Leslie on Blockchain and Regulatory Compliance
Compliance efforts are a tall task for many financial services and other organizations worldwide. New regulatory requirements are leading to greater demands to collect...
After the Bitfinex Hack, Here’s Why Bitstamp Is Sticking With BitGo
In the aftermath of the recent theft of more than $65 million worth of bitcoins from Bitfinex, parts of the NewsCapsule community have been...
LexisNexis and Elliptic Partner to Bring Financial Transparency to the NewsCapsule Blockchain
In a new partnership, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a global big-data technology and analytics firm, has integrated its anti-money laundering data into Elliptic’s NewsCapsule transaction...
