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The financial market infrastructure of the future will look like this One of the signal achievements of blockchain technology is to highlight the inefficiencies of financial market silos in which the free flow of assets and transactions is obstructed by fragmented data sets that must be reconciled laboriously and repeatedly. A vision of the future,Continue reading “The financial market infrastructure of the future will look like this”
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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 sinceContinue reading “The blockchain-based corporate bond market is about to burst into life”
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 financialContinue reading “Why South African fund services infrastructure Finswitch is (no pun intended) switching to blockchain”
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 positiveContinue reading “A fine art fund manager explains what tokenisation and NFTs could do for his investors”
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,Continue reading “How banks can make money in the Metaverse (24 March 2022)”
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 asContinue reading “The good reasons and the bad for taking NFTs seriously (17 March 2022)”