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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

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Blockchain and Stable Coins: opening the crypto markets?

In my recent blog about IBM’s Blockchain World Wire I mentioned the use of Stable Coins as settlement instrument for global payment transactions. Not many are familiar with the term Stable Coins, because it is a relatively new type of cryptocurrency. The Stable Coin market is however hotter than ever. In recent months, Stable Coins have seen remark...

14 May 2019 Blockchain Observations

Blockchain Corda Settler, Ripple and SWIFT a mariage a trois?

My last blog was about the IBM World Wire, a blockchain based platform for global payments. Another competitor in the blockchain payments world I have written about regularly is Ripple. Both are thereby targeting centralised payments messages network SWIFT. IBM and Ripple however are not the only players in the blockchain payments world. Late last ...

30 April 2019 Blockchain Observations

IBM Blockchain World Wire: growing competition in payments

Last year October I wrote a blog about IBM’s World Wire project. In that month they announced to come to the market with a global blockchain network for cross-border payments and foreign exchange for regulated financial firms using digital assets. But at that time it was not yet ready for production. A month ago the firm has announced that World W...

15 April 2019 Blockchain Observations

Blockchain for Europe Association: speaking with one voice

It is getting crowdy in the world of Blockchain Associations in Europe. Following the examples of The European Blockchain Partnership, The Blockchain Association of Europe, the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum, and many others, end 2018 a number of leading blockchain corporates including Ripple joined forces to create the Blockchain for Europ...

31 March 2019 /regulation Blockchain Observations

Gartner Blockchain Spectrum: a great tool for CIOs

CIOs of companies are increasingly showing their interest in blockchain technology. In PwCs 2018 survey amongst a large number of business executives from 15 different industries in various countries, more than 80% of the respondents said their company was actively involved with blockchain technology. Some more than others. This is not surprising ...

12 March 2019 Blockchain Observations

Blockchain Smart Treasury: game-changer for treasurers?

Though blockchain is not yet well understood by many treasury people, and tangible real-world applications for the corporate treasurer’s day-to-day activities are still scarce, this technology is getting increased interest in the treasury world. In August 2016 I wrote a blog in Finextra named “The Corporate Treasurer and Blockchain”. My conclusion...

19 February 2019 Blockchain Observations

Blockchain and disruption in the financial world: Will banks survive?

The world of banking as we know for many years is in a fundamental transformation process, triggered by new technologies. The most important is blockchain that is said to fundamentally change the way financial transactions are handled today. It is forecasted that this technology will have significant consequences on how traditional banks do busin...

12 February 2019 Blockchain Observations

Blockchain and big Data: A great mariage

Blockchain and Big Data are among the emerging technologies that are high on many companies’ agendas. Both are expected to radically transform the way businesses and organizations are run in the upcoming years. Long-time developing in a separate way, at first sight one might assume that these technologies are mutually exclusive. But that idea is...

29 January 2019 Blockchain Observations

Crypto-assets and EU regulation: to a global format

It is increasingly becoming a certainty that crypto-assets are here to stay. Also regulators are now more convinced that these will be here for the long run. Long time taken a wait-and-see attitude, there is growing consensus at European regulators to come up with EU-wide regulation. While on the one hand EU regulation could give the crypto marke...

15 January 2019 Blockchain Observations

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