The Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) announced the launch of its “Blockchain Academy” that offers the Kingdom’s first Blockchain Professional Qualification Programme, in addition to a series of Masterclasses and Workshops. With the professional qualification programme launching on January 6, 2019, the BIBF...

Ledger announced that it has expanded its U.S. presence to New York City and appointed Demetrios Skalkotos to lead global business unit operations for Ledger Vault, which will be headquartered from the new office. A multi-authorization cryptocurrency self-custody management solution built to secure large...

All parties wishing to introduce cryptocurrency in Malaysia must go through Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) first, said Lim Guan Eng. The Finance Minister said that the government and BNM must be careful with any introduction of cryptocurrencies as such new technologies are still being studied...

Abu Dhabi’s Al Hilal Bank has executed the world’s first sukuk transaction using blockchain technology, it said on Monday. The Islamic bank used the distributed ledger technology, best known as the underpinning of crypto-currency Bitcoin, to sell and settle in the secondary market a small...

As the price of the controversial “cryptocurrency” Bitcoin plunges, new figures show that the City watchdog is stepping up its investigations into the murky sector. The number of inquiries into businesses involved in the new breed of digital currencies has doubled, according to figures from...

Cryptocurrency trading is all set to become safe and profitable like never before, with the recent launch of a fully automated crypto trading platform by Napston. This groundbreaking trading platform is based on a proprietary technology called Distributed Artificial Neural Networks that has been...