Visa said the deal has the potential to add as much as 100 basis points to the company’s net revenue growth by 2021.The Wall Street Journal first reported the Visa acquisition.

Now people dining at KFC in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will pay for their meals by smiling.

To facilitate increase in efficiency and reduction in risks, US stock and bond trades will now settle in two, rather than three, days. Both Canadian stocks and bonds, and Mexican equities are also shifting to T+2. The move is in line with Europe, Australia and Hong Kong. 

A new report from Juniper Research has forecast that the value of cryptocurrency transactions will break the $1 trillion milestone before the end of 2017. This would mean a growth 15 times larger than the previous year.

The central banks of Japan and European Union have concluded that Distributed ledger technology is not mature enough to replace settlement systems.

Singapore is slowly emerging as a key hub for blockchain startups wanting to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The city-state of Singapore has always been a dream destination due to its tax-friendly regulations