10-Jun-2020 10:00:00 / by Rhomaios Ram (CEO) & Rob Fanshawe (Chief People Officer) posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, pride, people, BLM, diversity
10-Jun-2020 10:00:00 / by Olaf Ransome (Industry Solutions Advisor,) Angus Fletcher (Commercial & Regulatory Advisor), Lars Gladhaug (Legal Analyst) posted in Technology, Distributed Ledger Technology, Views, tokenisation, payments, settlement, stablecoins
'Stablecoins' are typically viewed as a proxy for money, so we do need to be careful about their use and the potential risks that they create. To this end, the FSB has authored a paper on stablecoins: "Addressing the regulatory, supervisory and oversight challenges raised by “global stablecoin” arrangements”.
13-May-2020 09:30:00 / by Olaf Ransome - Industry Solutions Advisor posted in Fnality, Views, tokenisation, digital assets, payments, settlement, peertopeermarkets, dFMI, infrastructuresolutions, liquidity
21-Apr-2020 10:45:27 / by Olaf Ransome - Industry Solutions Advisor posted in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Views, tokenisation, digital assets, payments, blockchainadoption, settlement, peertopeermarkets, dFMI, infrastructuresolutions, capitalmarkets, cashonledger
Do we need to change thinking on value-date i.e. the date on which a transaction actually takes place? We’d love to hear your views.
14-Jan-2020 07:00:00 / by Rhomaios Ram (CEO) & Olaf Ransome (CCO) posted in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, payments
Blockchain is? Pick a headline: a) the global panacea for lots of ills, or b) all hype and more talked about than actually used. Does it matter? Unequivocally, it does. Well, at the very least, for those of us in Financial Services.
20-Dec-2019 11:54:49 / by Olaf Ransome - Industry Solutions Advisor posted in Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, payments
Is the DLT potential real, why haven’t we realised it, will we ever realise any of it? These are all questions worth examining. Here’s my view as we end 2019 and plan for progress in 2020. It’s a long piece; your feedback is really welcome.
15-Aug-2019 09:32:43 / by Daniel Heller - Regulatory Affairs Advisor posted in Distributed Ledger Technology, Views, Crypto
We often read that we live in an increasingly polarised society, retreating too easily into digital echo chambers, inhabited only by like-minded souls. We also see divided opinions in the financial sector, such as over the adoption of technology innovations. When assailed on either side by fierce optimists and implacable sceptics, the pragmatist will remember that any new platform multiplies its chances of success by attracting a large and diverse range of participants.
Among the new technologies being explored, the crypto asset space is perhaps the most controversial. Certainly, it has earned many column inches, from Bitcoin’s surges in Q4 2017 and Q3 2019 to Libra’s recent launch. True...
10-May-2019 11:00:00 / by Rhomaios Ram - CEO posted in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Views
In this third article in a series, we examine some methods for creating tokenized assets on a blockchain and set out some of the necessary prerequisites. Cryptocurrency was lauded as a way to control the supply and issuance of a medium of exchange without a third party. Making transparent the supply and issuance of this currency decouples it from unforeseen political events, such as quantitative easing.
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06-May-2019 11:00:00 / by Rhomaios Ram - CEO posted in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Views
In this second of a series posts, we explore how a distributed Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI), a Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) based on a blockchain protocol, could have a system of governance that satisfies the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks and takes advantage of the improved economic mechanism features that blockchain can offer.
01-May-2019 11:00:00 / by Rhomaios Ram - CEO posted in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Views
A major appeal of Blockchain, more generically described as “Distributed Ledger Technology” (DLT), from the perspective of financial market participants has been the promise of simpler and less risky operational processes. But this is only a part of its full potential and misses an even bigger story: how DLT will enable a big disruptive shift in the shape of financial market structure.