Tag: United Kingdom

BoE Governor-Elect Torches Bitcoin, Says It Has No ‘Intrinsic Value’

BlockchainMarch 5, 2020

Andrew Bailey, the Governor-elect of the Bank of England, has joined the ranks of global financial policymakers who believe that Bitcoin isn’t a...

BitMEX Not Authorized To Offer Financial Services In The UK, FCA Says

BlockchainMarch 5, 2020

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a financial regulatory agency in the United Kingdom, has recently accused crypto derivatives platform, BitMEX, of operating...

Five, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet

AutomotiveMarch 5, 2020

We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the...

Cathay Pacific fined 500k by UKs ICO over data breach disclosed in 2018

Cyber SecurityMarch 4, 2020

Cathay Pacific has been issued a £500,000 penalty by the UK’s data watchdog for security lapses which exposed the personal details of some...

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes $71M fund, Jumo raises $55M, AWS partners with Safaricom

FintechMarch 4, 2020

VC firm TLcom Capital closed its Tide Africa Fund at $71 million in February, and announced plans to invest in 12 startup over...

Could lessons from the challenger bank revolution kick-start innovation on the climate crisis?

FintechMarch 3, 2020

Now that the world is swimming in data we may be able to address the climate and environmental risks to the planet. But...

Retailers, banks, unis and high schools used controversial law enforcement facial-recog software – and more

AIMarch 2, 2020

Also, head of AI at Intel leaves after his chip got canned Roundup Welcome to this week's AI roundup, where The Reg has...

BIS: No Central Bank Digital Currencies Focus on Cross-Border Payment

BlockchainMarch 2, 2020

Cross-border payments do not appear to be a priority as countries all over the world to engage with their own digital currency projects,...

Bank of England Warns Crypto Adoption May Impact Credit Creation

BlockchainMarch 2, 2020

Jon Cuncliffe, the deputy governor for financial stability of the United Kingdom’s central bank, the Bank of England (BoE), has warned that the...

Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway Gocrypto Onboards 1,000 Locations Worldwide

BlockchainMarch 1, 2020

On February 28, Gocrypto CEO Dejan Roljic revealed the payment gateway has officially onboarded 1,000 merchant locations during a recent...

Luno Says It Will Be Supporting Ripple Very Soon

BlockchainFebruary 29, 2020

Cryptocurrency exchange Luno – based in London in the United Kingdom – has stated that it will soon add Ripple’s XRP to its...

Kaspersky announces blockchain voting system

BlockchainFebruary 29, 2020

Kaspersky Cybersecurity firm has introduced a prototype of its revolutionary Polys blockchain voting system to open up the opportunity of a safer alternative...

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