Fintech News

Food companies unite to advance blockchain for supply chain traceability

IBM and a group of leading food companies are taking a major step towards making food supply chains more transparent with blockchain technology. The …

Fintech / 22-08-17 / by Sanne Wass

HSBC and IBM develop cognitive trade finance tool

HSBC and IBM have developed a cognitive solution to automate and digitise trade finance documentation. The solution, which is already in use in Hong …

Fintech / 16-08-17 / by Finbarr Bermingham

R3 Corda reaches trade finance milestone

Thirteen global banks have built a prototype trade finance application on R3’s Corda platform, described by the consortium as a “milestone” innovation. The app, …

Fintech / 09-08-17 / by Finbarr Bermingham

Fintech startup brings blockchain and cryptocurrencies to invoice finance

New fintech startup Populous is introducing smart contracts, blockchain technology and digital tokens to the invoice financing space. Having raised more than US$10mn in …

Fintech / 09-08-17 / by Sanne Wass

New fintech partnerships to push automation in trade finance

Traydstream, a trade finance fintech firm, has entered into two partnerships to expand its newly-launched trade digitalisation and compliance screening solution. It has partnered …

Fintech / 03-08-17 / by Sanne Wass

How blockchain is changing track and trace

In August last year, UK company Provenance announced a scheme to track tuna on the blockchain. In this pilot, Indonesian fishermen sent a text …

Fintech / 28-07-17 / by Finbarr Bermingham

Aeon Japan to get IBM blockchain solution

The financial arm of Japanese retail giant Aeon is to trial an IBM blockchain solution for settlements and transactions around Asia. Aeon Financial Service provides …

Asia / 28-06-17 / by Finbarr Bermingham

Exclusive: R3 and Hyperledger in talks over Corda migration

Fintech company R3 is mulling moving its Corda solution to the Hyperledger blockchain platform. In an interview with GTR, Brian Behlendorf, the executive director …

Fintech / 29-03-17 / by Finbarr Bermingham

Hyperledger chief: live blockchain solutions in trade finance this year

Brian Behlendorf is the executive director of Hyperledger, the open source blockchain consortium powering much of the trade finance industry’s experimentations on the technology …