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A third of the world's biggest banks still have no board members with professional technology experience, skills needed to help lenders make better decisions as they increase investments on IT, a new study by consultancy Accenture showed on Friday.

By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - Komainu, the digital asset custodian backed by Japanese investment bank Nomura Holdings Inc , has raised $25 million in a funding round led by veteran hedge fund manager Alan Howard, the company said on Tuesday. Other investors in the round included Galaxy Digital, NOIA Capital and Nomura Research Institute, which will act as strategic partners to the custodian, Komainu said. Howard is the co-founder of investment firms Brevan Howard, and ...

Large companies from carmaker Tesla Inc to business intelligence firm MicroStrategy Inc have swapped billions of dollars in cash for bitcoin in ...

Large companies from carmaker Tesla Inc to business intelligence firm MicroStrategy Inc have swapped billions of dollars in cash for bitcoin in recent months.

Rush to bitcoin? Not so fast, say keepers of corporate coffers

Insight: Rush to bitcoin? Not so fast, say keepers of corporate coffers Toggle share menu Advertisement Insight: Rush to bitcoin? Not so fast, say keepers of corporate coffers When Elon Musks Tesla became the biggest name to reveal it had added bitcoin to its coffers last month, many pundits were swift to call a corporate rush towards the booming cryptocurrency. FILE PHOTO: Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin and U.S. dollar banknotes are ...

8 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric carmaker’s backing of bitcoin this week could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCitys Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo Tesla Inc revealed on Monday it h...

8 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric carmaker’s backing of bitcoin this week could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCitys Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo Tesla Inc revealed on Monday it h...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc has restarted its cryptocurrency trading desk and will begin dealing bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards for clients from next week, a person familiar with the matter said.

San Francisco-based Affirm Holdings Inc said on Thursday that it is planning to launch its first payment card allowing users to pay for some purchases in installments, as the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector booms.