Fintech News: The blockchain issue

28 Sep 2015

In less than a year, blockchain has emerged from the shadow of bitcoin to become one of the most talked-about technology topics in finance...

  • Moving from T+2 to T-instant

    New initiatives often give new hopes of solving longstanding problems. In the securities domain, there have been many complaints about the operational complexity and the high cost of post-trade processing, the business of making sure securities are transferred after a trade and the right payments are made to the right owners on time.

  • The public vs private debate on blockchain

    Bitcoin promised to open up the current financial system but blockchains run by top-tier banks would be the opposite of that libertarian dream.

  • Meet the new kids on the blockchain

    From OTC clearing to smarter lending, a host of start-ups have developed ways to put blockchain technology to work in finance. Financial News profiles four.

  • Blockchain: Four financial frontrunners

    Brainstorming ideas, setting up specialist labs, launching small-scale systems...Financial News looks at how four big names in finance are exploring blockchain.

  • Blockchain: The right solution at the right time?

    In less than a year, blockchain has emerged from the shadow of bitcoin to become one of the most talked-about technology topics in finance.

  • Blockchain: An Uber moment for finance - maybe

    The futurologist and sci-fi writer Arthur C Clarke said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” At times those words seem to apply to the blockchain.

  • Smart contracts and the self-driving bank

    To bitcoin’s early adopters, blockchains – which do not require a central server whirring away in a building, or direct human oversight, to run – seemed to carry out their work almost if by magic.

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