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Though financial institutions and technology companies have experimented with trade finance for years, it has a slow progress. Despite automation advances in many areas of financial services, trade finance remains a largely paper-based, manual process. But it could be one area where blockchain…

Credit Suisse leads a group of banks and financial firms. These institutions recently achieved the second phase of a blockchain proof-of-concept which focuses on syndicated loans. How Blockchain Can Be Used In Syndicated Loans & How It Works? from Blockchain Council A joint venture, Synaps…

A Supply Chain provides an open source distributed ledger technology in the field of the blockchain. This is mainly suited for organizations which manage digital assets in a secure, robust and adaptable way. How Blockchain Can Be Used In Supply Chain Management & How It Works? from Blockchain…

Many use cases and applications are now made which use blockchain technology, with several recent implementations and use cases described in our previous articles. All implementations of blockchain-based applications have the standard security requirements for generating, storing and managing the…

Clearing comprises all processing from the time the commitment for a securities transaction is entered into until consideration is exchanged in settlement thereof – usually contemporaneously. Advanced removal systems and legal provisions are needed. This is because the speed of trading by far…

Market participants in the securities industry are contemplating various applications of the blockchain. Many of these participants have focused on discrete applications within the broader equity, debt and derivative markets. They focus on separate applications and devising limited-scale…

The blockchain is currently one of the hottest topics in financial services and capital markets. The technology has the potential to transform many business processes. This makes the data used in those processes more available, transparent, immediate and secure. It could also strip out large…

Blockchain technology is a method of recording and confirming transactions. Here, instead of a centralised platform, participants each hold a complete record of transactions through peer to peer verification of transactions. This means there is no central recording system; rather each participant…

Ask an average person on the street what they think of when you say ‘payments’. They will likely respond with something around paying for goods. Or if they are particularly savvy, they may reference an app they use to pay their friends, such as Venmo. How Blockchain Can Be Used In…

Blockchain adoption has the power to transition new and existing models of insurance, including P2P insurance, parametric insurance and microinsurance, into a new digital age. Blockchain is powerful because of its secure platform connecting capabilities. How Blockchain Can Be Used In Micro…

Know Your Customer (KYC) processes require banks to validate and verify primary documents as part of due diligence. Currently, KYC utilities that help manage these documents and share them with multiple entities flood the markets. In some cases, these services may even perform due diligence.…

The Internet of things is creating new opportunities and providing a competitive advantage for businesses in current and new markets. It touches everything—not just the data, but how, when, where and why you collect it. The technologies that have created the IoT aren’t changing the internet.…