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Ex-BitTorrent General Manager Joins Crowdfunding Startup RealtyShares

July 3, 2016

RealtyShares, an online marketplace for real estate investing, tapped Simon Morris as its new Chief Product Officer. In this role, Morris assumes responsibility for overseeing technology and product develop...

Danske Bank Secures Jason Mann as its Senior Credit Syndicate Manager

June 22, 2016

Danske Bank has brought in longtime banking executive Jason Mann to help reinforce its credit syndicate desk. He joins the group as its newest Senior Credit Syndicate Manager in its Debt Capital Markets (DCM)...

Ripple Secures the Services of Former HSBC Exec, Marcus Treacher

April 12, 2016

Ripple, a provider of financial settlement solutions, has appointed payments veteran, Marcus Treacher as its newest Global Head of Strategic Accounts with immediate effect, according to a Ripple statement. M...

Major Bitcoin Firms Invest $1m in RootStock to Take on Ethereum Threat

March 24, 2016

It seems that after the meteoric rise of Ethereum, Bitcoin supporters can no longer just try to deny its invitational approach to blockchain and the smart money has decided that if you can’t beat them, join t...

Elliptic Secures $5m Funding from Santander et al to Police Bitcoin

March 21, 2016

Blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic just announced a $5 million Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group, an...

Beleaguered Venezuela Steps Up Anti Bitcoin Propaganda

March 17, 2016

Imagine you are part of a populist government whose far left socialist policies have led your country to such economic ruin that some ordinary citizens are now turning to cryptocurrencies to protect their rem...

Ex-TD Bank Head Appointed to Run TMX Market Insights’ Division

March 7, 2016

The Canada-based exchange operator under the TMX Group company structure appointed today Tom Wadden as Head of Data Science and Analytics for TMX Insights, a sub-division of TMX Markets, effective immediately...

Banc De Binary to Pay $11m Settlement to US Regulators

February 25, 2016

The online brokerage and Liverpool Football Club sponsor Banc De Binary has reached an $11 million settlement with US authorities after several years of investigations over it illegally providing binary optio...

R3 Blockchain Experiment Kicks Off with Ethereum Technology

January 20, 2016

R3 CEV has announced today the completion of a distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s biggest banks, including Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of Austral...

Kraken Acquires Coinsetter and Cavirtex, Enters US and Canadian Market

January 19, 2016

Spring 2013 is remembered as the period that bitcoin hit the forefront of mainstream public knowledge. Due to prices skyrocketing from the teens to over $250, coverage emerged from niche technology and financ...