Yesterday it was announced that five leading healthcare providers have signed up to use a new blockchain credentialing system from ProCredEx. The aim is to resolve the administrative inefficiencies in healthcare credentialing by using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The solution aims to connect existing credentialing systems.

Today the Spanish bank BBVA and the owner of the Spanish electricity grid, Red Electrica announced that they have partnered to deliver a syndicated loan arrangement using blockchain. The arrangement was concluded on BBVA’s proprietary distributed ledger platform. The deal is worth €150 million, and BBVA granted the loan alongside Japan’s largest bank, MUFG, and the French international banking group BNP Paribas. The transaction follows multiple pilots in the industry designed to test the potent

Government clients will have access to digital identity solutions through a new collaboration between the world’s largest professional services network, Deloitte and the identity management company, Attest. The new partnership launched yesterday in Washington will help unlock the full potential of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) for government. It will provide administrations with the resources needed to solve a host of government-specific issues.

Charity leaders raise concerns about anti-advocacy clauses in government awarded contracts

The use of parliamentary privilege to break non-disclosure agreements raises questions about their usage

Wonga’s collapse is arguably a victory for increased regulation, but deeper changes are still needed to protect the vulnerable

Greater context and accuracy is needed from companies for gender pay gap reporting to have an impact

Following Facebook’s stock-market plunge, questions should be asked of its governance practices

TSB’s handling of its IT migration reveals the importance of managing reputational risk

The judges for the award for most innovative individual spent much time debating the relative merits of Edward Chan of Linklaters and Dan Wright of Osborne Clarke.

In the latest research for the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe report, the most commonly reported barrier to change was lawyers’ inherent risk-aversion.

Terror is one of the defining words of our age. In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a shift in the use of the term; from a descriptive word describing extreme fear, to shorthand for terrorist activities committed by those claiming to act in the name of Islam.

I feel that following the rather audacious title of this blog I should perhaps begin with a clarification; I fully accept that in 1888 a series of murders occurred in the Whitechapel area of London, however, what interests me is the way our cultural concept of ‘Jack the Ripper’ is so far removed and broader in scope than the rather paltry facts that exist about the murders.

Celebrity deaths have left us upset and shocked—and, at times, very confused. Some seem so strange or unbelievable that we continue to debate for many years the true events surrounding the end of their lives.

In this paper, I focus on the ways in which Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) has become indelibly linked with the Whitechapel murders.

Less than a month into my postgraduate studies I was excited to attend a research seminar at the University of Greenwich led by Dr Martin Dines, senior lecturer at Kingston University, entitled ‘Trouble with boys: Queer Domesticity and Egalitarian Relationships in Post-War London Novels’. It was a topic that was largely outside of my area of knowledge (although I had studied queer theory as an undergrad) and I was keen to learn about a new subject.