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The Future of Finance Meetings bring together a variety of high-profile financial speakers. We will host a series of discussions, articles and interviews across all of our chosen themes: Data, Digital Identity, Securities, Asset Management, Law and Regulation, Payments, Money, Insurance, Pensions, Real Estate, Technology and Funding FinTechs. Follow this page for further updates.
Blockchain technology is not enough to build a global digital debt market
Key Insights From This Interview FQX is a blockchain-based issuance platform for tokenised debt. Founded in Zurich in 2019, the start-up has invested as much time and money in the legalities as the technology and can now offer issuers near-certainty over the status of their security token offerings in legal and regulatory terms across six…
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Blockchain in the bond markets could be a Trojan virus that kills incumbents
A summary of the webinar of April 20 2022 entitled Blockchain in the bond markets could be a Trojan virus that kills incumbents? SUMMARY What has happened so far? The US$124 trillion global bond market is now viewed as the most likely candidate to adopt blockchain on a major scale. There are several reasons for…
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SDX explains the challenges of pioneering a regulated digital bond issue
[FEB 2022] Six Digital Exchange explains the challenges of pioneering a regulated digital bond issue In November 2021, the SIX Group issued a CHF 150 million bond onto its own exchange and into its own central securities depository (CSD). Nothing remarkable about that, you might think. Except that the securities became the first digital bond…
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The blockchain pioneer that never stops reinventing itself
Nivaura was a blockchain pioneer in London, working with banks, stock exchanges, financial market infrastructures and law firms on a string of high-profile regulatory sandbox projects that proved blockchain technology could support private placements, structured products, bonds, crypto-currency-backed bonds and equity settlements, even within the existing regulatory regime.
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For HQLAx tri-party repo is the point of departure not the destination
HQLAx is a properly funded start-up using the R3 Corda variant of blockchain technology to improve the ability of banks to mobilise eligible collateral, wherever it is, by tokenising assets while leaving them exactly where they are.
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Using blockchain as it was intended to make debt issuance more efficient
As blockchain technology emerges from the Trough of Disillusionment (© Gartner) and ascends the Slope of Enlightenment (© Gartner) the original promise of what it can deliver once it reaches the Plateau of Productivity (© Gartner) is being rediscovered.
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A Future of Finance Interview with Saum Noursalehi
A Future of Finance interview with Saum Noursalehi, CEO of tZero, on what the company is doing in the burgeoning security token markets.
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Complacency about prime broker risk could kill hedge funds
A SUMMARY AND FULL REVIEW OF THE DISCUSSION AT THE WEBINAR ON 29 JULY 2020 Part I
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Whatever happened to blockchain in the bond markets? (30th June 2021)
A Future of Finance webinar with bond market professionals, exhangces, infrastructure providers, technology and blockchain companies. Wednesday June 30 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Back in the blockchain heyday of 2016-18 there was no shortage of schemes to apply the technology to primary market issuance, bond market trading, and post-trade settlement and financing. Some…
Keep readingComplacency about prime broker risk could kill hedge funds
A Future of Finance webinar with prime brokers and hedge fund managers. 29 June 2020 2.00-3.00 pm UK time The equity divisions of the banks gained from the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, as market volatility increased transaction flows and trading opportunities. But hedge fund managers cannot count on the crisis continuing to be…
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