Bitcoin and Banks? Things to Come.
As we pointed out in our previous interviews with a lot of highly educated and important people inside the financial sector, the banks are looking at Bitcoin and its technology. Recently some banks have come forward into admitting that they are “looking into Bitcoin and the blockchain technology”. Among these banks are 3 Dutch banks: Rabo Bank, ING and ABN Amro. It is true that the Dutch government and financial oversight commissions have urged caution with the whole digital currency. Nevertheless our predictions from last year have rung true. We said in many articles that the banks,....
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Bitcoin and Blockchain are technologies which have the potential to dramatically change the world. If Blockchain technology is deployed rapidly and effectively, we can bank the unbanked, automate contracts and even get Blockchains to work with the Internet of Things (IOT) to create a Blockchain of Things. Yet the primary use of Blockchains remains as a medium to validate cryptocurrency transactions. If that is the case, one must ask the question, how soon before central banks not only accept Blockchain but also start to have more acceptance of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? After all....
Moreover, it is evident these Australian banks have no intention of supporting Apple Pay whatsoever, and collaborating in this regard seems the best possible outcome for all parties involved. Many people think the bigger banks are only opposing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but that is not entirely correct. Over in Australia, the banks are opposing Apple Pay as well. A new collaboration between the country’s three biggest banks will shake up things by quite a margin. If their approval is granted, the institutions will negotiate with Apple to install their own mobile payment solutions on....
Banks around the world are figuring out a way to keep their business afloat, and the customer will be paying the price for services rendered in the long. Things are getting particularly worrying in Belgium, as the banks want to charge a fee for withdrawing cash from an ATM in the future. Other financial services might be targeted as well, although no definitive proposal has been drafted yet. This is another step in the right direction for pushing people to alternative financial solutions such as Bitcoin.
Banks do not have the best of reputations as it is, and this decision will only make things worse. It is not the first time major banks plan to stockpile Bitcoin to thwart ransomware attacks. Even though that money should be spent on improving the IT department, financial institutions tend to take the easier option. Rolling over and paying the Bitcoin ransom will only invite more trouble down the line, though. But for now, London banks want to buy up Bitcoin in the case of a cyber attack. Dealing with a ransomware attack can be quite devastating. Computer systems and important files are....
None of the banks fined admitted to these charges, but they all agreed to pay the fines. The year 2016 will not end on a high for Wells Fargo, by the look of things. FINRA has fined the bank, as well as a few other institutions, for a combined US$14.4 million. Apparently, all of these banks suffer from record-keeping problems that could have lead to company and customer documents to be altered. Although electronic document-keeping should have improved overall transparency and accuracy, that has not been the case so far. Various financial institutions have failed to protect this....