Tagged: event

October 9, 2018 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Security Token Academy held its second annual STO focused event in Manhattan. This year, attendance at the Security Token Industry Launch event increased dramatically as more financial services players are viewing securities on blockchain as a likely path for the future of… Read More

September 28, 2018 @ 2:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published the agenda for Fintech Forward 2018: Innovation, Regulation and Education, conference taking place in DC next week. The conference is a collaboration of CFTC’s LabCFTC and the Office of Customer Education and Outreach (OCEO). As part of the… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 10:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) is out with an update on their forthcoming event next month. CIS has partnered with Consensys and Token Foundry to educate cryptocurrency and blockchain investors as well as developers. At the event, CIS will introduce a “Builders’ Track,” designed to specialize… Read More

September 23, 2018 @ 10:10 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin entrepreneurs Alena Vranova and Giacomo Zucco announced today that they are creating a foundation to help Bitcoin, an automated, autonomous payment network invented in 2009, compete with centralized cryptocurrency ventures. Vranova, an early adopter of Bitcoin and co-creator of the Bitcoin projects Slush Pool,… Read More

September 23, 2018 @ 2:34 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Baltic Honey Badger Conference of 2018, held this year in Riga, Latvia, wrapped up today with a panel featuring Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream, Giacomo Zucco, CEO at BHB Network; Tone Vays, a former Wall Street risk analyst and Bitcoin advocate; and Eric Lombrozo,… Read More

September 17, 2018 @ 1:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain Charity Foundation (BCF), Finance Center for South-South Cooperation (FCSSC) and Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL), have joined to host a blockchain focused summit to be held at the United Nations on September 24th.  This summit, entitled “Blockchain for Social Good: Utilizing Blockchain to… Read More

September 13, 2018 @ 9:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

A confluence of events has brought together a series of blockchain /crypto conferences to create the first ever Los Angeles Blockchain Week. Just announced, Crypto Invest Summit, StartEngine Summit, Women of Crypto, Expert Dojo, UCLA and USC have all joined together to create LA Blockchain… Read More

September 12, 2018 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) has shared details of its 3rd annual Hong Kong Fintech Week. The private – public partnership event which seeks to promote Hong Kong’s prominence in the fast evolving Fintech sector will be a bit different this year. For 2018, HK Fintech… Read More

September 11, 2018 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that registration is open for their forthcoming Fintech focused conference. Scheduled to take place at CFTC HQ in Washington, DC, on October 3-4, FinTech Forward 2018: Innovation, Regulation and Education, is an effort to bring together policy… Read More

September 5, 2018 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speaking at the very first OECD Blockchain Policy Forum taking place in Paris this week, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria opened the conference calling blockchain (or distributed ledger technology) an “unprecedented technological revolution.” The Forum saw the participation of multiple public officials including the Premier… Read More

August 16, 2018 @ 10:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crypto Invest Summit has partnered up with CryptoOracle to offer two masterclass courses at Crypto Invest Summit’s Fall Conference in LA. The two masterclasses, will tackle pretty diverse topics. The first will be on the emerging security token industry and the second will be on… Read More

August 14, 2018 @ 11:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

FinTech Australia has shared that the Victorian Government will increase its support for Fintech by signing on to be the major sponsor of Intersekt for the next two year.  Intersekt is billed as the leading Fintech event in Australia. “The Victorian Government and Minister Dalidakis… Read More

August 14, 2018 @ 6:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Even the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is interested in blockchain these days. The international organization that is focused on promoting policies that will improve the economic plight of everyone around the world has scheduled a blockchain event in Paris for this September…. Read More

August 13, 2018 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

This fall, a diverse group of global blockchain industry types will be convening at the United Nations to discuss the role of Blockchains for Sustainable Development or “B4SD.” While finance is deemed the hot sector of distributed ledger technology, the benefits of this tech may go… Read More

August 1, 2018 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SF Blockchain community has scheduled an inaugural Blockchain Week in October. The event is said to focus more on the mechanics and benefits of blockchain (aka distributed ledger technology) as opposed to the initial coin offering hype that has infiltrated so many other events…. Read More

July 29, 2018 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

FinTech Australia CEO Brad Kitsche expects this year’s annual event to be huge in comparison to last few years. The touchstone conference Intersekt will be adding an extra day and will seek to bring in the participation of all Australian Fintech firms. As part of… Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will address the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) next week as part of its annual event at the University of Cambridge. Queen Máxima will be speaking in an official capacity as the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate… Read More

May 28, 2018 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

For the second year running, KPMG Digital Village and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will be organizing the Global FinTech Hackcelerator for the 2018 Singapore FinTech Festival. According to KPMG, this year’s program will focus on 80 problem statements in the following 4 categories:… Read More

May 23, 2018 @ 10:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silvio Schembri, the Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy, and Innovation has announced the launch of the government’s first official blockchain event. The Delta Summit will become Malta’s official blockchain event as it seeks to become the blockchain island. Schembri said that the Delta… Read More

May 21, 2018 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

The “West Coast’s Largest Cryptocurrency And Blockchain Event” has scheduled a second event for later this year. Following the gangbuster success last month, Crypto Invest Summit will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 22nd. The organizers say that after the Spring event… Read More