SEC Awards a Total of $107 Million to Whistleblowers The SEC has given a whistleblower “more than $22 million” for a “detailed tip and extensive assistance” that allowed the regulator to halt “a well-hidden fraud at the company where the whistleblower worked,” according to officials. “The $22 million-plus award is the second-largest total the SEC… Read More >>
SWIFT Gets on the Blockchain Proof-of-Concept Bus
Financial messaging and services cooperative SWIFT is providing more details about its R&D efforts, including proof of concept efforts, for blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) in a white paper it just completed with global consultancy Accenture The two have combined efforts for a position paper, “SWIFT on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Delivering an Industry Standard Platform through… Read More >>
SWIFT’s Innotribe Crowns Hyperledger
At the Sibos conference in Singapore, SWIFT’s fintech innovation division Innotribe has named newcomer Hyperledger as the winner of the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge, giving the vendor exposure and a $50,000 cash prize. On its website, Hyperledger says it “uses revolutionary shared, replicated ledgers technology to provide a trustful, universal record of truth not controlled… Read More >>
