Traditionally, the functions of financial market infrastructure (which includes payment systems) have been centrally administered and operated by a single entity. There is a growing movement within the wholesale financial market towards decentralisation in order to reduce reliance on centralised intermediaries and “unlock billions in capital and liquidity”. Decentralisation is at the core of our design principles at Fnality. Both the technology underpinning the Fnality Payment System (‘FnPS’) and our organisational design are based on the concept of decentralisation. There will be no ‘single point of failure’ should a server go down or ‘single point of attack’ from malicious actors...
29-Sep-2021 11:39:17 / by Jason Fleming posted in Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, digital assets, payments, dFMI, Nodes, FnPS
27-Sep-2021 07:35:25 / by Lisa McNaught posted in Fnality, people, Career, Fnamily, South Africa, Gratefulness, Humble, Grace
When the Covid Lockdown hit early last year, life seemingly came to a standstill. In that period of calm, my husband and I vowed to express to each other 5 things we felt grateful for every morning before work. Little did I know, that soon after that quiet period and by the end of that year, we would find ourselves moving overseas to the UK from South Africa.
10-Sep-2021 11:15:00 / by Francesca Gunn posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, diversity, inclusion, Mental Health, Wellbeing, culture, Fnamily
27-Aug-2021 14:00:00 / by Isabella Baker posted in Fnality, people, inclusion, Ways of Working, working remotely, work from home, culture, Fnamily, lockdown, Colleagues
Since the pandemic began you would have read several articles on how our personal and work lives have changed and adapted as we’ve moved online. Instead of face-to-face interaction we have been accustomed to using collaboration tools such as Zoom, Slack and WebEx.
13-Aug-2021 16:15:00 / by Gary Chu posted in Fnality, Views, people, diversity, inclusion, Ways of Working, agile, Career, Legal, Fnamily, Specialist, Colleagues
It’s been a while since a former British Lord Chancellor declared “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts”, striking a populist note in the lead up to the UK’s Brexit referendum. In Watching the English, an entertaining book recommended to me when I first immigrated to this country, anthropologist Kate Fox writes about the English having “vestigial traces of a ‘culture of amateurism’, involving an instinctive mistrust of professionalism”. Others have argued about the superiority of generalists in a highly specialised world.1
23-Jul-2021 16:30:00 / by Anna Przewoznik posted in Fnality, people, Wellbeing, Fnamily, Health, Kind, Compassion, Human, Motivation, Anxiety
In a recent conversation with Fnality’s CEO, Rhom, he recommended that I should be kinder to myself. I’ve heard it before. In fact, I’ve been hearing this repeatedly since the early days of my career. I would normally do something nice, like a longer weekend, or taking a long bath. However, having investigated this concept recently, I realised that it is not just about doing something nice for yourself; it is about the way you treat yourself, and how you use your inner voice. If you are a person who often says “I am my own worst critic” or hears “don’t be too hard on yourself” the chances are that you may not be very good at being kind to yourself. Many of us are not aware of the unhelpful...
15-Jul-2021 09:00:00 / by Fnality Team posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, diversity, culture, ESG, empowerment
Recently, the Fnality ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) Community of Practice organised a live Q&A session with Meghan Foreman-Purves, Head of Legal, Europe for CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce). It was a session that all of us at Fnality found insightful and inspiring, so we are delighted to share Meghan's experiences and advice around topics such as leadership, overcoming career obstacles, and parenthood in the workplace with a broader audience in this blog post.
Meghan was, until very recently, a Director of CIBC’s UK regulated subsidiary, and has recently been welcomed to the Fnality Community as CIBC’s Board Observer and Shareholder Representative.
09-Jul-2021 10:00:00 / by Cait Foley posted in News, Fnality, Views, people, pandemic, culture, Health, World, World Population Day, lockdown
From the International Day of Friendship to International Asteroid Day, the United Nations’ annual celebration of human life and history aims to bring awareness and offer opportunities for learning and participation across language, health, culture, science, and more. During lockdowns around the world in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, towns and cities appeared almost deserted overnight; once bustling streets became ghost-towns, before ‘furlough’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘Zoom calls’ were common lexicon. Whereas parts of life seemed to grind to a halt, healthcare was pushed to its limit as hospitals and morgues filled, and communities were put at risk when demand outran supply. No one...