Fairfax County Retirement Systems has released details about its investment in a blockchain fund, seemingly to quell fears about the Virginia municipality’s two pension funds taking on exposure to cryptocurrency. “Given that…

Iran’s central bank is working with a pair of blockchain startups that are developing what could be the groundwork for a new token ecosystem, CoinDesk has learned. Many government banks around the…

Chinese search giant Baidu has launched a blockchain platform aimed to simplify commercial deployment of decentralized apps, or dapps. Officially announced by Baidu Cloud on Thursday, the Baidu Blockchain Engine (BBE) platform is touted as…

An HSBC executive has said that the bank’s blockchain-based system has helped it cut the costs of settling foreign exchange trades. Speaking to Reuters, Mark Williamson, chief operating officer of FX cash trading…