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Olaf Ransome

Olaf Ransome

Director at 3C Advisory LLC
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Bridging the divide between TradFi and DeFi

  Nice post Hirander. The old and the new must indeed come together.

07 Dec 2022 Reply Read article

It's time to take a stand against all the blockchain crap out there

  Too much hype indeed. The potential may be there, but nothing much will come of it in FS without a lot of cooperation between institutions. This needs some unselfish industry cooperation and imho a lot of central bank cooperation. Potential will remain untapped unless and until a simple mechanism is found to convert fiat money to emoney.

21 Jan 2016 Reply Read article

A business case for SWIFT

  Agree with you. They want to avoid mistakes, which is great, but over time have become too hidebound. Experiement, fail faster. 

19 Nov 2012 Reply Read article

A business case for SWIFT

  To paraphrase Bill Gates words about banking: "SWIFT the format, i.e. ISO, is essential, SWIFT the carrier is not" We do not need SWIFT to move messages from A to B. Others can and do offer services for that. To its credit, SWIFT has done a good job of moving away from charging only per message, with its bulk pricing. We do though as a banking community need channels and forums for dealing with one another and SWIFT is moving, albeit slowly and arguably late, to improves its post-trade services. The success of ventures like CLS that provide a forum for banks to settle trades and even of the various LCH services show that banks need these forums or platforms to manage settle their business. To stay relevant, SWIFT needs to provide more than just a message carrying service. 

19 Nov 2012 Reply Read article