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Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
It is no secret that the global financial technology market is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. The previous year was marked by the thriving of the Fintech sector with record-breaking investments worldwide: a total of 3472 investment deals were made, worth $55.3 billion. And there is an explanation for that: the traditional banking...
21 January 2021 /payments /markets
Jesse Chenard CEO at MonetaGo
Fraud is an age-old problem that has plagued every industry since businesses began trading. It takes many forms and guises and is a constantly evolving threat, as the perpetrators adapt to the ever-changing business environment they seek to disrupt. Perhaps one of the most well-known examples of fraud is money laundering. On one end of the spectr...
21 January 2021 /regulation /crime
Ivan Kot Solution Consultant at Itransition
While many people still view cryptocurrency with some scepticism, the use of blockchain within certain industries and for specific processes has gained general acceptance. One of the offerings of blockchain that has attracted much hype is Decentralized Finance (DeFi). While the adoption of DeFi has not reached the heady heights that were predict...
18 January 2021 /security /payments
Smart contracts have been making waves since the inception of the technology on the blockchain platform Ethereum. They are now used in the number of industries but haven’t fully lived to the hype. In this article, we are figuring out what challenges prevent smart contracts from widespread adoption in real estate transactions, particularly those re...
27 November 2020 /security /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Why, how and what described in the somewhat busy picture below. It works well as animated and walked through. But I will try with some brief points here: Why? The goal is to remove friction from the economy. Friction caused by paper, not real-time, lack of trust in counterparts and data, unstandardized data, need to search for data from many source...
16 November 2020 /retail /identity
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Early adoption will be a key differentiator in the race to lead SE Asia in digital asset exchanges - offering services such as the primary listing of securities, listing of alternative assets and secondary-market trading of security tokens and cryptocurrencies. Distributed ledger technology is bound to revolutionise capital markets so that conventi...
22 September 2020 /crypto /markets
The current crisis has increased the need for accelerated automation that would lead to increased efficiency, reduced costs and, counterintuitively, increased revenues. This can only come from a paradigm shift. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is undoubtedly revolutionising capital markets. It is, however, important to cut through the hype and b...
14 September 2020 /crypto /covid-19
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
1200 words, 4.5 minute read Central bank balance sheets are ballooning the world over, and in parallel, adoption of shared ledgers using blockchain is accelerating. These major shifts indicate the global architecture for money and payments is on the cusp of structural change. Blockchain analysis and debate are dominated by a focus on cryptocurrenci...
08 September 2020 /payments /crypto
Paul Hampton Security Expert at Thales
The financial industry is one of, if not the most regulated industries in the world. As such, while innovation may appear to be on a smooth road in other sectors, to many the financial world can be viewed as a little slow to the party. However, while the industry can be cautious and rightly so given the role it has in society, innovation is by no ...
03 September 2020 /security /regulation
The extent of money supply increases needed to facilitate stimulus packages by sovereign central banks to counter the negative effects of the current crisis will dictate the inflationary pressures that ensue. Current world currencies are driven in a large part by expectation value and when confidence wanes there is a flight to alternative stores o...
20 July 2020 /crypto /covid-19
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