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Trixze Smith
Forbes: The Fintech 50: The Complete List

Just as Amazon changed the way we shop and Apple reinvented the music biz, digital disruption is going to soon affect every aspect of your money: how you earn it, save it, invest it and spend it. You'll want to keep close tabs on the 50 companies listed here. They are the small firms destined to have a big impact on your financial future and possibly upend your portfolio.

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Jo Lang
FT: Blockchain initiative backed by nine large ...

Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, are planning to develop common standards for blockchain technology in an effort to broaden its use across financial services.

The group are looking to channel data, ideas and financial backing to a start-up called R3CEV, a New York-based group of trading and technology executives.

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R3 assembles expert technology team to lead distributed ledger initiative

Today’s staffing announcement coincides with the addition of five more banks to R3’s distributed ledger initiative – BNP Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, ING Bank, Macquarie Bank, and Wells Fargo & Co. – bringing the total number of bank members to 30.