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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

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Hyperledger Project: collaboration pays off

Recently, I wrote that smaller blockchain consortia are needed (see my Blog: Towards smaller and more focused blockchain consortia, 27 February 2017). The Hyperledger Project however may be the exception. Things look quite good for the Hyperledger Project, described as being an “umbrella” for the developer communities to work on creating open sourc...

07 April 2017

Blockchain and the Ripple effect: did it ripple?

Have you ever thrown a stone in still water of a river or a lake. I did! The effect is rippling the water in a way that can be followed outwards incrementally. It might be this effect that the founders of Ripple, the payments blockchain network had in mind when choosing the name for their project. Did it ripple? But first: who is Ripple? San Fra...

27 March 2017

Blockchain Regulation in the Securities Industry: still many unanswered Questions!

One of the obstacles for massive adoption of blockchain technology is the lack of clarity from regulators. Regulators world-wide have long time taken a wait-and-see attitude towards blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) (see my Blog “Blockchain and Regulation: do no stiffle .... April 4, 2016). But that is changing. Regulators across ...

13 March 2017

Blockchain in Healthcare: make the Industry better

In one of my first blogs on blockchain “What’s blockchain not: some misconceptions” (March 22, 2016), I wrote that this technology was not only for financial services. It can be used for many more areas. One sector that is already seeing significant activity is healthcare. From the perspective of blockchain adoption, healthcare organisations are m...

08 March 2017

Towards smaller and more focused blockchain consortia

There is a tremendous amount of activity focused on blockchain. Several blockchain-related organizations and consortiums have been formed all across the globe, to study this and contribute solutions in a collaborated way. But the recent announcement of a number of big banks to leave the bank-backed R3CEV consortium has raised the question of the ...

27 February 2017

Blockchain Project Jasper: reaching boundaries

Blockchain seems to be not just a straightforward upward movement. This despite the various real-world examples and the growing number of believers. Sometimes it is very interesting and above all educational to look at an individual project for a more back-to-earth view. That experiments do not just show the positives but also the gaps. Last week ...

15 February 2017

Blockchain and derivatives: reimagining the industry

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

Blockchain: accelerated activity in trade finance

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: Securities market infrastructure players in the contra-attack

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

Blockchain and Central banks: a Tour de Table Part II

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

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