Blockchains based upon distributed ledger technology (DLT) have the capacity to undo the “complexity, opacity and fragmentation of capital markets,” but they lack a clear path to wider acceptance, are competing against other disruptive technologies for funding, and represent a threat to traditional industry institutions, according to a new report from World Economic Forum (WEF)…. Read More >>
SWIFT’s DLT Sandbox to Help Securities Solutions Too
The SWIFT cooperative for financial messaging systems recently announced that it is exploring how distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain can help its global payments system. Upon further digging, I found out that the “underlying DLT sandbox” will be helpful in testing other proof-of-concepts (PoCs) such as one to come for securities processing. To quickly recap, SWIFT… Read More >>
