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The blockchain-based corporate bond market is about to burst into life
The blockchain-based corporate bond market is about to burst into life The US$124 billion global bond markets seem at last to be taking pole position in the race to unlock the efficiencies conferred by blockchain technology. Much of the effort is directed at the primary markets, where the telephone plays the part it has since…
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Why South African fund services infrastructure Finswitch is (no pun intended) switching to blockchain
Why South African fund services infrastructure Finswitch is (no pun intended) switching to blockchain It is not hard to see why centralised financial market infrastructures are more alive than other financial institutions to the opportunities and threats of distributed ledger technologies. They are the neutral entrepots through which data flows between participants in every financial…
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A fine art fund manager explains what tokenisation and NFTs could do for his investors
A fine art fund manager explains what tokenisation and NFTs could do for his investors Fine art is often cited as a natural candidate for tokenisation. It is illiquid and traded amongst a small class of wealthy investors at prices which are not always transparent. Fine art also has a long history of generating positive…
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How banks can make money in the Metaverse (24 March 2022)
A Future of Finance Webinar with banks, meta platforms, software companies, regulators and financial professionals Thursday March 24 at 2pm UK time The Metaverse is notoriously hard to define. Those definitions which do exist describe a digital facsimile of the physical world, which people enter as avatars by donning headsets and hand sensors. Once inside,…
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The good reasons and the bad for taking NFTs seriously (17 March 2022)
A Future of Finance webinar with the NFT marketplaces, digital asset players, regulators and technology providers Thursday March 17 at 2pm UK time A market in which the assets coveted by investors for use as profile pictures or digital avatars are branded as Crypto-Punks, members of the Bored Ape Yacht or Kennel Club, or as…
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