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The ERC-20 token is developed on the basis of Ethereum. The platform consists of a blockchain that stores transactions, and a virtual machine that encodes smart contracts that guarantee their executio...
It seems like 2017 broke records for all the wrong reasons…one of them being the worst year for data breaches in history. According to reports, hacking was the most common way to collect this data, b...
Most industries have undergone regulatory overhauls over the past century; by my observation, none have done so more rigorously than the financial industry, which sometimes falls short of optimum self...
In today’s fintech-frenzied atmosphere it’s easy to understand why there’s so much buzz about APIs and microservices. While breaking the monolith is certainly an exciting prospect, for many financial...
We are currently doing some domain driven design to understand our primary business domains and identify the appropriate core APIs required. This is an exciting yet daunting time - some domains look
“Out of the Blue”, and “quite in the shadow”, IBM recently introduced a new product called Blockchain World Wire. A cross-border payments system for financial institutions based on blockchain technolo...
Regtech” is defined as addressing regulatory requirement through technology to ensure regulatory compliance are met by Bank, Financial Institutions, Insurance companies, Central Banks and other market...
The phenomenal growth of Alibaba has made many of its executives very rich but life outside the online retailer can be challenging - as former chief operating officer Li Qi has discovered. Li Qi joine...
Would you fly on a plane guided by a decentralised air traffic control system, even if the price was cheaper?.. Decentralisation is a term often thrown around when someone talks about blockchain and c...
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...
‘Artificial intelligence’ (AI) and ‘machine learning’ are sneaking into every part of our daily lives. How do we tell the realizable use cases available now from what’s projected? In 1850, Michael Far...
Biometrics boom No longer the preserve of the military and secret service, biometrics is one of the hottest and fastest growing sectors in the world. With the technology used across a variety of secto...