FinTech builds on blockchain for international mobile payments

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 21:07:00 -0700

IBM has partnered with a Polynesian payments system provider and an open-source FinTech payment network to implement a new international exchange based on a blockchain electronic ledger.

The new payment network uses IBM’s Blockchain Platform, a cloud service, to enable the electronic exchange of 12 different currencies across Pacific Islands as well as Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

KlickEx Group, a United Nations-funded, Pacific-region financial services company, and Stellar.org, a nonprofit organization that supports an open-source blockchain network for financial services, are backing the new cross-border payments service.

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Attack The Machines: The lucrative business of ATM malware

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:00:43 +0000

Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally. The report digs into the depth and breadth of malware targeting ATMs, as well as the perpetrators behind…

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Linux group pushes out production-ready blockchain collaboration software

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:01:00 -0700

The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project announced today the availability of Fabric 1.0, a collaboration tool for building blockchain distributed ledger business networks  such as smart contract technology.

The Hyperledger project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, said the Hyperledger Fabric framework can be a foundation for developing blockchain applications, products or customized business solutions

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