by Eddy Wagenaar | 25-08-2017 | Blockchain News, Fintech, RegTech
Co-Founder of the (European) Blockchain Federation, Irina S. Zimakova, wil be performing a keynote speech on 7 September 2017 at the NPF & Regtech Leaders Forum 2017: the premium gathering for senior executives responsible for compliance and payment strategies....
by Irina Zimakova | 01-08-2017 | Blockchain News, Fintech
Recently, Blockchain Federation Founder Eddy Wagenaar was asked to perform a keynote speech on ‘Hybrid Blockchains’ at Digital Festival 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. Afterwards Mr Wagenaar starred in a brief interview commenting on changes expected in the...
by Irina Zimakova | 19-05-2017 | Fintech
Peer-to-peer money sending firm TransferWise has become profitable this calendar year, six years after being founded. Its customers are now transferring more than £1bn every month, and it has 700 staff, it says. TransferWise was founded by friends Taavet Hinrikus and...
by Eddy Wagenaar | 13-05-2017 | Fintech
Stellar, an open-source payments network that started as a splinter project from Ripple, has formed a for-profit company to help financial institutions integrate its software. Lightyear.io represents an acknowledgment that to fulfill Stellar co-founder Jed...
by Eddy Wagenaar | 21-04-2017 | Fintech
While the UK’s popular press obsesses over the color of post-Brexit Britain’s personal passports, our fintech entrepreneurs are worrying about the EU passporting system for banks and financial services companies. The EU passporting system lets firms authorized...