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Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Since the first meetings organised by the Technology Advisory Committee of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on January 26 and February 23, 2016, on “Blockchain and the Potential Application of Distributed Ledger Technology to the Derivatives Market”, we have seen a lot of activity in this area. The Depository Trust and Clearin...
06 February 2017
Last year August I wrote a blog on blockchain and trade finance. There I described the various pilots and plans for using this technology in the trade space. In that month, the bank-backed R3CEV blockchain consortium revealed that 15 of its member banks had participated in a trial involving trade finance. Since then activity in this area has acc
26 January 2017
Blockchain technology has long been viewed as a threat to CSDs and their role as intermediaries for securities transactions. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology may make the role of many intermediaries in the post trade market infrastructure obsolete. In one of my blogs (Blockchain and the securities industry: future eco-system 14 March 2...
19 January 2017
A year ago central banks were looking at the blockchain technology, mostly because they wanted to understand what private banks were talking about. The central banks are now embracing the blockchain technology to revamp their own infrastructures. Major central banks worldwide have spent the past year organising their own working groups dedicated t...
09 January 2017
In April last year I wrote a blog on blockchain and monetary policy. In this blog I went into a number of still unanswered questions posed by the European Central Bank around blockchain technology. There was a big uncertainty about the impact of this technology on the future role of central bank money and on monetary policy. While at that time man...
03 January 2017
In the past three weeks we travelled throughout South Africa. Our main focus was on the country, the people, the safaris, the Big Five. But not on blockchain! Now being back home I am curious what happened in between in the blockchain area. So let's have a look. A number of interesting reports were launched, amongst others by Euroclear and Deloitt...
22 December 2016
19 December 2016
Today, I was invited to participate in a Challenge meeting at the Euroforum Fintech event in Amsterdam. My challenge was the following. Suppose we are somewhat further in time. Blockchain is far beyond the hype, the initial overdone expectations have been brought to a more realistic level and the technology is generally accepted as having enough o...
23 November 2016
When talking about blockchain, up till recently there was not much happening in the energy industry. At least not in the spotlights. But that is rapidly changing. In April 2016, the ‘said’ world’s first blockchain managed energy trading transaction took place in Brooklyn, New York. The owner of a solar roof panel sold excess energy (a few kilowatt...
22 November 2016
Next week we are leaving the Netherlands for a three-and-a–half week trip to South Africa. A yearly returning and exiting event across this intriguing country and their neighbors. Being a regular blogger on blockchain I am curious what South Africa was doing with this new disruptive technology. After having done somewhat research the picture that ...
15 November 2016
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