With cryptocurrencies increasing in popularity throughout the world, Kyrgyzstan has also started to think about how it will interact with them, both from an official (government-level) sense as well as …

Uport, a self-sovereign identity and user-centric data platform on the Ethereum blockchain, has made its platform available to the citizens of Zug, Switzerland. Registration on the blockchain, which requires verification …

The Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) has released a special statement calling virtual money an instrument for financing terrorism. The special statement also declared that there was no plan for …

Air New Zealand has partnered with Swiss startup Winding Tree to explore blockchain technology for a number of potential uses, including retail airfares, cargo and baggage tracking, securing information and …

Mastercard has tested and validated its own blockchain and will be opening access to it via a set of three APIs published on the Mastercard Developers website. The APIs include …

M.Video (Russia’s largest consumer electronic retailer), Sberbank Factoring and Alfa-Bank have launched an open consortium aimed at the commercial use of blockchain-based technologies in the financial sector. The new platform …

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, believes that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to central banks and traditional currencies. Moreover, she has …

Digital currency is gaining in popularity in Georgia, and the country even hosts two facilities of the world’s largest bitcoin-mining company. There are also an increasing number Georgian entrepreneurs mining …

As blockchain technologies being to enter Kazakhstan in the financial sector, so do ideas for how to implement these tools in other spheres. In the future, it is likely that …

Kazakhstan may become the first of all Common Economic Space countries to introduce its own cryptocurrency, which will likely become a digital analogue of the Kazakhstani tenge (KZT). It is …

Maryam Tagiyeva, the chief system architect of the British Research Center for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG), believes that Azerbaijan is in a position to become the world leader in …

Financial operations are the most common application for blockchain technology; however, blockchain can also be used in other situations such as staff recruitment. Currently, relations between companies and employees lack …

Learn about the difference between bitcoin and blockchain by watching this short video: Video: 3 important ways financial institutions are leveraging Big Data Infographic: the collaborative economy BFC FinTech Monitor …

Blockchain can help businesses reduce multi-party transaction settlement times to nearly zero, reduce overhead and reduce the risk in tampering and collusion. Check out this short video to learn how. Video: artificial intelligence …

Smart contracts are computer codes with predefined sets of rules that run on blockchains and set the conditions under for how all parties to the smart contract agree to interact …

Take a short test to evaluate the level of Digitalization in your bank’s operations. Take the test here. A future without cash in Belarus Infographic: the true cost of a …

Laurent-Pierre Baculard, a partner and director in Bain & Company’s Paris office, discusses how leaders should approach digital transformation and suggests successful organizational models. Infographic: the true cost of a …

Find out the best practices for achieving an efficient digital transformation. Why the FinTech revolution has not turned the financial industry on its head 3 ways financial institutions in Kazakhstan …

The Azerbaijan Banks Association (ABA), in partnership with the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication, will hold the second ‘Adaptation of the Banking System to the New Development …

With increasingly demanding customers and competition from fast-growing Fintech companies, the urgency for banks to deliver highly-innovative new value propositions as well as maintain and improve existing products makes software …