In Trade Finance there’s a lot of activity. As mentioned yesterday, you have HSBC and Bank of America working with HyperLedger; R3 trialling with 15 banks based upon Corda; Ripple working with Standard Chartered and DBS; and JPMorgan have been developing a trade finance trial with Digital Asset. These are platofrms and industry developmetns, but…
After Clearing and Settlement as a blockchain use case, the next big area of interest is Trade Finance. This is primarily because it’s an area full of inefficiencies and open to fraud. Bills of Lading and Letters of Credit are old world methods of managing the shipping of goods and services, and the potential to…
After yesterday’s blog generally about blockchain use case implications in Clearing and Settlement markets, here are the six companies I see as being at the forefront of changing the game: Digital Asset, SETL, tO, Clearmatics, Symbiont and itBit. Digital Asset Digital Asset – also known as Digital Asset Holdings (DAH) – is the most notable…
I’ve talked a lot about blockchain, but not much lately about the use cases, of which four stand out in terms of real activity: Clearing and Settlement, Trade Finance, Payments and Digital Identity. I thought I’d do a deeper dive into these during the quietness of August, starting with what’s happening in Clearing and Settlement. Today,…
Friend of the Financial Services Club and journalist with Financial News Anna Irrera has recently started producing a weekly roundup of FinTech news. She’s kindly agreed to let me republish this summary here on The Finanser, so here goes: Lots of banks have been testing blockchain based applications for trade finance… 15 R3 Members Trial Distributed Ledger…
Here are our key posts for the past week … Renewing core systems is like renovating the subways Someone recently equated banks and their systems and structures, to the underground in London. It’s a lot of pipes, wires, cables and tunnels that were built in the Victorian times and are still operating today. You have…
Someone recently equated banks and their systems and structures, to the underground in London. It’s a lot of pipes, wires, cables and tunnels that were built in the Victorian times and are still operating today. You have engineers on the tracks every night and day, trying to keep the systems running, whilst also trying to…
On Tuesday the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a UK Government Agency, told British banks that they must digitalise or suffer penalties. In a report entitled Making banks work harder for you, they have ordered the UK banks to digitalise within two years or face regulatory fines. The key headlines include, under what the CMA…
As my readers will know, I regularly interview innovators of start-ups and banks of how they see the world. These interviews constitute a third of the ValueWeb and Digital Bank books. In the interests of maintaining these case studies, as I find them interesting, I recently met Ben Milne, Founder and CEO of Dwolla. In case you’re…
