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Markos Zachariadis

Markos Zachariadis

Greensill Chair in Financial Technology (FinTech) at Alliance Manchester Business School
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Bio Professor Markos Zachariadis is a faculty member at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, where he holds the Greensill Chair in Financial Technology and Information Systems. Career History Professor Markos Zachariadis is a faculty member at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, where he holds the Greensill Chair in Financial Technology and Information Systems. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum at the Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems, and a Fintech Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Blogs

Innovation in Financial Services

Do Distributed Ledger Systems hold the key to Cross-Border Payments innovation?

02 Feb 2017

In August 2016 the World Economic Forum published a report declaring that blockchain will become the “beating heart” of the global financial system. Amongst the most popular use cases for the recently surfaced technology is that of cross-border payments and correspondent banking, which have been portrayed as slow, complex and inefficient. In that ...

 

What can the Bank of England learn from SWIFT?

14 Mar 2016

What can the Bank of England learn from SWIFT? Last month I was invited at the Bank of England to consult members of the RTGS Review committee on their efforts to rethink and redesign the Bank’s settlement system. Earlier this year the Bank announced [1] plans to reevaluate its high-value RTGS infrastructure in light of the recent developments in...