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Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group
I need to warn you right from the start. If you think that the ‘immutability’ of a blockchain is its most useful and precious feature, think again. What you may own today, in either Bitcoin, Ether or XRP cryptocurrency (or any ‘ERC20 token’, for that matter) may become useless, once quantum computing emerges as a threat to today’s public key crypt...
03 June 2018 /payments
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Trade finance has become one of the top focus issues for blockchain technology use. The number of pilots and other trials that are looking into the opportunities of blockchain technology for trade finance and supply chain have dramatically increased in 2017 and intensified this year. The sheer complexity of trade finance is thereby reflected in th...
23 May 2018
Retired Member
Many technological innovations have been heralded as the ‘future of business’. From fax machines to the iPhone, organisations have been relying on more and more technology to operate with greater efficiency and security. While there will always be mixed opinions over which technology is going to have the next big impact, there’s no denying that bl...
22 May 2018 /regulation
Myles Milston CEO at Globacap
Inadequate oversight can create industry crises — an effect we are starting to see in crypto. Over the last year, tokens have been at the centre of multiple global hacks and large-scale fraud - such as the theft of $400 million in Coincheck tokens, the Parity coding error that froze over 513,776 ETH, the PlexCoin ICO which saw the SEC freeze $15...
18 May 2018 /regulation
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Think for a moment at the blockchain events you have attended and at the presentations you have followed. Now try to remember how many times you have been presented use cases or basic applications (the so-called POCs-proof of concepts). Almost every time, true? Good. Now ask yourself: How many times have these cases been presented by the same com...
11 May 2018
Gerard Hergenroeder Retired IBMer and Banking Executive at Payments Shark
Warren Buffet and his thoughts on Bitcoin -- "Speaking to CNBC anchor Becky Quick ahead of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday, the billionaire investor said bitcoin — the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency — is "probably rat poison squared." I agree with Warren. Bitcoin has no real mass market...
09 May 2018 /payments
Gartner’s latest CIO Survey finds that only 1% of the more than 3,000 chief information officers (CIO) surveyed indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain. 34% said they had no interest in the technology, while 43% of CIOs sa...
05 May 2018
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
As the financial services world continues to adapt to the possibilities of blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), we are now at a critical juncture, as to where the industry goes from here in utilising these technologies. Now that various organisations have more experience of implementing DLT from initial proof-of-concept to actual p...
30 April 2018
Sophia Brooke Project Manager at Independent Consultant
It was bitcoin that introduced blockchain to the world, but the technology goes beyond this cryptocurrency. Businesses are looking to process data and manage their transactions more efficiently and securely, and blockchain is the answer. One of the key competencies of today’s business leaders is that they are able to adopt disruptive technologies t...
(the use case was proposed by a Certification Agency) It is widely recognized that with digital technology supply chains are more transparent, quality-rich, and competitive. Above all by focusing on product content description, both mandatory and voluntary, that can turn into a competitive advantage especially in international markets. On the one ...
29 April 2018
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