Headlines for the world of Cryptocurrencies - September 16, 2017

Fujitsu partners with Japanese Banks to Blockchain Techonology

Japan's major IT equipment and service provider, Fujitsu is currently partnering with Japanese Bankers Association or JBA to trial the viability of running financial services using a blockchain platform.

JBA does the assessments of the effectiveness of payment solutions and guides banks through the issues involving the use of new technologies to better their services.

In this new deal, Fujitsu will provide a blockchain platform where JBA member banks can then utilize to test several business use cases.

JBA member banks will start creating their own applications next month for the blockchain platform to test several ideas to find out which of them are viable for real-world implementation.

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Bitcoin is going Back on Track

After slipping below $3000, Bitcoin is now going back on track at a price of $3721.39 at this time of writing.

Bitcoin price dropped after the news about China's banning of Bitcoin exchanges in the country.

BTCC and ViaBTC are the exchanges who already announced to stop China trading this September 30, 2017.

Huobi and OKCoin has also announced that they are going to stop yuan-denominated.

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Headlines for the world of Cryptocurrencies - September 15, 2017 Hyperledger and Ripple to reunite for an Interledger Project / AXA uses Ethereum Blockchain for its Newest Product
Headlines for the world of Cryptocurrencies - September 14, 2017 Zcash update: Better zk-SNARKs to speed up the anonymous transactions / China's Tencent and Intel Joint Forces for an IoT Blockchain Solution
Headlines for the world of Cryptocurrencies - September 13, 2017 SBI Ripple Asia is currently testing an Instant Cross-Border Payments between Japan and South Korea / Switzerland will accept Bitcoin as Tax Payments

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