SoftBank Makes $800 Million Bet on U.K. Financier Greensill
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is betting $800 million on Greensill in its second big investment in a U.K. financial...
Facebook’s Blockchain Team Is Assembling Its Own Mini-PayPal Mafia
The inner workings of Facebook Inc.’s blockchain team are still shrouded in secrecy, but it’s staffing up, according to people...
Fidelity Said to Offer Cryptocurrency Trading Within a Few Weeks
Fidelity Investments, which began a custody service to store Bitcoin earlier this year, will buy and sell the world’s most...
Citigroup Forms Lab for Traders to Code and Coders to Trade
Citigroup Inc. isn’t just teaching traders how to code, it’s also making sure its coders know how to trade. The...
Spa Gone. Now Workers Too. LendingClub Joins Bay Area Exodus
LendingClub Corp.’s downtown San Francisco headquarters once featured many of the lavish perks booming tech companies use to attract workers...
Fidelity Survey Finds Institutional Investors Are Eyeing Crypto
About half of institutional investors consider digital assets to be worthy of holding in portfolios, according to a survey commissioned...
Blockchain Adopted by Canadian Banks to Verify Client Identities
Canada is making a big leap in modernizing identity verification, tapping blockchain technology to let consumers digitally prove who they...
`Rare’ Wave of Hiring Hits Hong Kong as Virtual Banks Beef Up
Hong Kong’s banking sector, one of the most staid areas of its financial industry, is seeing an unusual spurt of...
Finance Firms Are Hiring in These Cities Following Global Cuts
Demand for bankers and financial services workers appears to be waning following a wave of cutbacks at the start of...
Bank CEOs Say Don’t Hold Your Breath for Predicted Wave of Deals
The biggest bank merger since the financial crisis -- February’s $28 billion tie-up between BB&T Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc....
