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Banks have traditionally managed trade finance as a paper-intensive practice. While internet-based technologies have made giant steps into banks' departments, trade finance has long remained anchored ...
Banks struggle to balance two imperatives: to open their systems to external partners and clients via application programming interfaces (APIs) and to control the user interaction. In order to maintai...
Request for Proposal, Purchase Order, Sales Order, Advanced Shipping Notice, Bill of Lading. In blockchain a simple token is enough.
A growing number of posts and articles describe how blockchain impacts supply chain operations. This is all but good news for a technology that was doomed to be the exclusive domain of cryptocurrencie...
<<Do we really need this blockchain? From what we see from current projects it looks like we could do the same with the technologies already in use.>> I get these and other objections from...
Heads of corporate treasury are crossing paths with digital transformation, a revolution that already started with the advent of the internet and one that is now shaping the world of business and the ...
Collaboration is a key business enabler and parties decide to collaborate if: There is a business objective that cannot be achieved individually. There is value for all parties in reaching the obje
Blockchain technology is finding barriers to acceptance among global corporate institutions. Lack of trust among users represents one of the biggest hurdles to full acceptance. So what? The real probl...
The value of blockchain is shaping up: an infrastructure layer that enables companies to turn goods into tokens and then trade and settle them. All of this without changing any of the company’s curren...
This article summarizes the most recent use cases developed by Network Partners of the NdT Community. Although they operate in very different industrial sectors, all the Partners have the same objecti...
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 (th...
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...