Joseph C. Guagliardo
Blockchains have the potential to dramatically reshape the capital markets industry, with significant impact on business models, reductions in risk and savings of cost and capital. However, the revolution will not happen overnight.
Can Blockchain Tech Really Unclog the Capital Markets?The article discusses the potential for the use of blockchain technology in financial services and markets which is originally regarded as the distributed ledger behind bitcoin. A research by Chris Whalen of Kroll Bond Rating Agency reveals the ...
Beyond the hype: Blockchains in capital markets Read the article The way it works is, if I owe you $20, we do the transaction. There’s a huge community called miners, and they have a powerful computing resource. Some people have estimated that the entire computing power of Go...
All told, DLT has the potential to significantly benefit financial markets. Bain research estimates annual cost and capital savings could amount to 1 to 3 basis points of total global assets under management, or about $15 billion–$35 billion. Much of these savings will come fr...
Blockchain is an emerging decentralized architecture and distributed computing paradigm underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and has recently attracted intensive attention from governments, financial institutions, hightech enterprises, and the capital markets. Blockchain s key advantages include decentra...
The United Kingdom treats crypto as a capital asset for tax purposes. Switzerland. This Alpine country takes a notably progressive approach to regulating cryptocurrency. Lawmakers in 2020 passed a law on distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), introducing the concept of “DLT securities” and ...
The fact that blockchains make markets more transparent is a significant benefit for the technology, says David Treat, a senior managing director at consultancy Accenture who specialises in technology and capital markets. “Everyone gets the exact same information at the exact same time.” He says...
A benefit of blockchain-based bonds is the ability to assist capital markets in achieving fast, efficient, and secure transactions via distributed ledger technologies. World Bank Blockchain Bond-I Details According to the World Bank, the bond-i is the world's first bond to be "created, alloca...
(formerly Exotix), emerging nations are the most promising beneficiaries of blockchain tech. He argues that, because "frontier marketsin Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia lag far behind [in the area of ownership recording], with average performance less than half that of the ...