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Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain technology startup led by JPMorgan Chase alum Blythe Masters, is expanding its capabilities by acquiring other such firms.
June 25 -
The Internet of Things, blockchains and smart (not "big") data could help financial institutions fend off disruption in lending, payments and money management, according to the Spanish bank's fintech mavens.
June 29 -
In the same way that Napster and peer-to-peer file sharing changed the face of the recording industry, blockchain technology will force banks to reconsider their traditional roles.
April 20 -
The cost of complying with New York State's proposed BitLicense regulations would wipe out many smaller digital currency businesses. But there is a middle ground: placing those businesses under the supervision of a self-regulating incubator that would help them develop robust yet affordable compliance programs.
April 13 -
The digital currency world is readying itself for more regulatory penalties over the failure to meet Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering requirements following federal agencies' action against Ripple Labs last month.
June 10
Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan Chase executive, has joined the advisory board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a Bitcoin trade association created to represent the young industry's interests in Washington.
Masters sits at the helm of
The chamber, founded by former journalist and legislative analyst
The investment banking veteran said she would help the group with "advocating polices that promote public trust and confidence in financial infrastructure and fostering the deployment of new technologies to reduce risk and settlement latency." [Editor's note: Masters and Boring will be among the speakers at American Banker's
Masters spent 27 years at JPMorgan Chase, where she held a number of leadership positions, most recently as the head of its global commodities unit from 2007 to 2014. She has also been the CFO of its investment bank and held various roles managing credit risk at the megabank.
The chamber also announced the addition to its advisory board of Jim Robinson, co-founder and managing partner of New York-based venture capital firm RRE Ventures, and Jason Weinstein, a partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP and former deputy assistant attorney general.
