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Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
Bitcoin at 50k USD In March 2018 I posted a Finextra blog “Bitcoin at 50,000 USD”. It was framed as a scenario rather than a prediction and I observed that no-one could possibly know with any certainty what would happen next with Bitcoin. However, the objective of the blog was to examine what Bitcoin and the crypto landscape would look like should...
18 February 2021 /payments /crypto
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
At the start of January 2020 I made top 5 predictions in the digital, crypto and blockchain space and evaluated how these had played out at the start of January 2020. The results were very accurate. I try to repeat that feat with my key predictions for 2021: Capital markets accelerate the move from analogue to digital I expect some very interesting...
22 January 2021 /crypto /predictions
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
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
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
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