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Last week the Dutch Central Bank launched a report on blockchain, in which they concluded that the blockchain technology “fundamentally failed to pass muster as a realistic replacement for current fi...
Trade finance has become one of the top focus issues for blockchain technology use. The number of pilots and other trials that are looking into the opportunities of blockchain technology for trade fin...
Notwithstanding the large number of blockchain and distributed ledger pilots, there is still a large number of challenges to overcome that are limiting its uptake. Next to scalability, other main issu...
On 10 April, at the EC Digital Day 2018, the European Union made a big step forward towards a great blockchain future. On that date 22 EU member countries have signed a Declaration on the creation of ...
Last year we have seen increased blockchain activity across various industries worldwide. This was mirrored in an even greater number of trials, proofs-of-concept and prototypes, as well as the growt...
Last year I wrote a blog on the Hyperledger project and what that could mean for blockchain acceptance (see my blog: Hyperledger Project: collaboration pays off, 9 April 2017). We are now almost a yea...
Blockchain technology enables real-time settlement finality in the securities world. This may mean the end of a number of players in the post trade area. For a long time, central securities depositori...
Almost a year ago I wrote my blog “Blockchain and the Ripple effect: did it Ripple?”. Now twelve months later we may conclude it did. And even more than that. Ripple is making many waves. A lot happen...
Long-time regulators world-wide took a wait-and-see attitude towards the non-regulated markets for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. But that is changing rapidly. With the growing popularity of the crypto...
The last few months there was not much exiting news from the blockchain front. Most focus was on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and their spectacular rise and fall. But that is changing (for the t...