With bitcoin supporting some pretty substantial transactions recently, how can the financial community safeguard themselves from exploitation by criminals and terrorists?

Crude oil, the Russian Rouble and Greek stocks could all have made the grade this year, but Bitcoin has stolen the title as the worst investment of 2014.

Bitcoin has become more and more popular in the digital world, with a growing number of followers using it to pay for goods and services. But Bitcoin is feared to make money laundering easier than ever. Find out why.

HSBC has severed its ties with the first regulated Bitcoin fund nearly five months after its approval by the Jersey Financial Services Commission

The UK Treasury announced a series of initiatives dealing with digital currency, including a plan to apply anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to digital currency exchanges.

A report issued by Deloitte and the World Economic Forum, ‘Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services’ looked at the impact of implementing distributed ledger technology – the same blockchain technology underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies – across nine sectors of financial services and found that it has the potential to ‘reshape financial services”.