Tag: Blockchain

NPP, payments and blockchain

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Three weeks after the launch of the National Payments Platform (NPP), Commonwealth Bank says it is signing up consumers for its PayID service at the rate of 10,000 people...

CBA outlines a blockchain future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
While Australian regulators grapple with how to best manage the legalities surrounding blockchain tech, financial services giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia is preparing to launch what it claims will...

Profit shifting a blockchain problem

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
The RMIT’s newly-minted Blockchain Innovation Hub is just a month old, but is already pressing for fresh thinking on by blockchain technology, including possible regulatory considerations that could underpin...

The legal sector’s wave of change

Posted on   |  by David McClure
The fusion of legal services and digital technology is rapidly changing commercial law and the pace of change is set to explode as technologies like blockchain, contract automation and...

Bipartisan group for blockchain

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor and Coalition parliamentarians have banded together to throw support behind a measures aiming to support the burgeoning bitcoin and blockchain sectors in Australia. The Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain...

Blockchain and food provenance

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Mark Toohey’s startup is a joke – literally. Called TBSx3, the startup is developing a blockchain-based system intended to stall counterfeiters. The joke is in the company name, which...

Blockchain’s new coming of age

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
In a week when Bitcoin broke through the $US2,000 barrier, news emerged that a pallet of Coonawarra wine had completed its 8,100 kilometer journey to China’s Qingdao with its...

Blockchain patents – the new black

Posted on   |  by Chris Baxter
What’s the big story in software patent applications in 2016? Does it by any chance involve a tamper-proof, virtual decentralised verification ledger? In other words, does it use blockchain?...

ASIC’s new role in blockchain rules

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO’s Data61 will pilot test the blockchain technology that offers instant settlement between banks, and ASIC will create a regulatory sandbox for FinTech startups to prove-out their ideas. But...