Accenture Innovation Lab Includes Blockchain Startup
Services and consulting firm Accenture has added a blockchain startup to the latest class of its financial innovation lab in London. Blockchain technology startup Crowdaura joins other 14 other startups to be included in Accenture’s 2016 FinTech Innovation Lab London. The London Lab is now in its fourth year. The 12-week long mentoring program is geared to help new fintech startups and entrepreneurs with expertise from executives of financial institutions such as Bank of America, JPMorgan, UBS, Goldman Sachs among others. Crowduara, as a part of its name suggests, is a platform that uses....
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A financial innovation lab operated by management consulting firm Accenture has added a blockchain startup to its latest class. Accenture's 2016 FinTech Innovation Lab London, the company announced yesterday, will include 15 startups. Crowdaura, which uses blockchain technology as a mechanism for issuing securities via crowdfunding, is the sole blockchain startup to be included in the class. The selected startups will spend 12 weeks working with Accenture staff and executives from a variety of major financial institutions including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Société Générale.....
Blockchain technology developer Digital Asset Holdings has revealed new ‘strategic business relationships’ with consulting and technology services firm Accenture, financial services firm Broadridge and one of the ‘Big Four’ in auditing and services network PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In a press release today, New York-based blockchain technology startup Digital Asset has announced the formation of three “non-exclusive business relationships” with Accenture, Broadridge and PwC. The Blythe Masters-led startup will help the three firms harness the potential and promise of blockchain, the....
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