If you’re asking yourself whether the hype around blockchain is worth looking into it, the answer is yes. You should definitively look to understand what the is fuss all about because there is a high probability that it will impact your work, your business and potentially your day-to-day life much sooner that you realise!
If you’re asking yourself whether the hype around blockchain is worth looking into it, the answer is yes. You should definitively look to understand what the is fuss all about because there is a high probability that it will impact your work, your business and potentially your day-to-day life much sooner that you realise!
Back in 2013, the CEO of Fintricity, Alpesh Doshi spoke about the way data shapes a brand and how it can be used throughout the lifecycle of the brand. From brand positioning to operational efficiencies, to e-commerce sales, social media, and brand engagement, he believed that data was, and still is the key asset to building brand value.
Alpesh Doshi recently held a talk with Fintricity’s consulting partner, KPMG. The presentation was kindly scribed and shared with us, to share with you!
Things are moving at lightning speed right now and whilst 2017 is the year to explore, in 2018 we will see the leading companies successfully productionise DLT on a global level. You do not have the luxury to wait until others have failed, you need to earn your own stripes. Therefore be agile, be bold, be brave, and have fun!
Recently, the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) trialled the use of the blockchain to pay welfare benefits to the unemployed and disabled, and this raised privacy concerns. The scheme would see claimants receive and spend money using an application on their phones. And with their consent, their transactions are being recorded on a blockchain to aid financial management.
Asset Managers (as well as the wider financial services industry) have gone through difficult times over the past 9 years, and regulators have hampered their growth and imposed significant burdens on them to continue to do business.
It’s that time of year again – time to reflect on what has been and what is to come. As we come into 2017, it feels like the creation of new technologies and their application, and the hype surrounding these technologies, continues.
We thrashed out 24 hot blockchain topics and opened the discussion to the floor. Let’s take a look at what we discussed and some of the interesting points that came up.
This blog looks at the definition of markets, which role technological advances play and how digitalisation is the catalyst for disintermediation, blurring established market boundaries.