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The ability to track blockchain ownership in real time could make it ideal for corporation elections. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images file photo)

Investors mull blockchain to improve corporate elections, shareholder votes

By Caitlin Reilly and Laura Weiss
Posted September 24, 2019 at 7:00am
The Federal Reserve expects to launch a real-time payment service in four years. Fintech experts are already questioning how it will handle fraud. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Fed’s proposal for faster payments raises question of fraud

By Steven Harras
Posted September 17, 2019 at 7:30am
Nurses protest the lack of medicines and medical supplies in Venezuelan hospitals at a demonstration in Caracas last month. Some Venezuelans are turning to cryptocurrency to circumvent the government’s chokehold on the economy. (Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images file photos)

Venezuelans use cryptocurrency to bypass corruption, inflation

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 10, 2019 at 7:00am
Facebook's Libra crypto coin logo is picture next to gold Bitcoins. (Cheng Feng Chiang/iStock)

Digging further into Libra’s origin story

By Chris Brummer
Posted August 6, 2019 at 5:00am
Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, sees data privacy as one of the primary risks. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate Banking members take skeptical look at cryptocurrencies

By Jim Saksa
Posted July 31, 2019 at 10:22am
House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters has criticized Facebook’s new cryptocurrency offering, Libra, calling it an “unchecked expansion” into the lives of the company’s users. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Facebook’s currency plan makes fintech a tough sell in Congress

By Roll Call Staff
Posted July 30, 2019 at 6:30am
The T-Mobile logo is displayed outside of a T-Mobile store. Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra, could provide banking services to underbanked populations. But some say mobile technology companies may be able to provide those services with government-backed currencies. T-Mobile teamed up with BankMobile, a division of Customer Bank, earlier this year to allow people to bank on their phones through a service called T-Mobile Money. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mobile technology may serve underbanked with no cryptocurrency

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 23, 2019 at 7:00am
An attendee participates in a augmented reality demonstration to show how lidar, or light detection and ranging, works during a briefing on autonomous vehicles in June. (Alex Wong/Getty Images file photo)

What counts as ‘foundational’ tech?

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted July 23, 2019 at 6:30am
David Marcus, head of Facebook's Calibra digital wallet service, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on "Examining Facebook's Proposed Digital Currency and Data Privacy Considerations" on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Facebook incurs wrath from both parties at Libra currency hearing

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted July 16, 2019 at 3:20pm
New York is among the latest to consider legislation calling for unclaimed cryptocurrency to be transferred to the state after the digital assets have been abandoned. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

States, eyeing money in abandoned bitcoin, rewrite laws

By Steven Harras
Posted July 16, 2019 at 6:30am