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There is a tremendous amount of activity focused on blockchain. Several blockchain-related organizations and consortiums have been formed all across the globe, to study this and contribute solutions ...
Blockchain seems to be not just a straightforward upward movement. This despite the various real-world examples and the growing number of believers. Sometimes it is very interesting and above all educ...
Since the first meetings organised by the Technology Advisory Committee of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on January 26 and February 23, 2016, on “Blockchain and the Potential Appl...
Last year August I wrote a blog on blockchain and trade finance. There I described the various pilots and plans for using this technology in the trade space. In that month, the bank-backed R3CEV blo
Blockchain technology has long been viewed as a threat to CSDs and their role as intermediaries for securities transactions. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology may make the role of many inte...
A year ago central banks were looking at the blockchain technology, mostly because they wanted to understand what private banks were talking about. The central banks are now embracing the blockchain t...
In April last year I wrote a blog on blockchain and monetary policy. In this blog I went into a number of still unanswered questions posed by the European Central Bank around blockchain technology. Th...