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Hedge funds lack confidence in data security

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... towards an increasingly interconnected world and we're seeing a lot of investment in the space globally, more so than blockchain. If we look ahead to ten years' time and imagine everything on our roads is automated - driverless cars, traffic lights ...

CBA in world-first blockchain transaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... Commonwealth Bank and Wells Fargo have embarked on the first global trade transaction between two independent banks via blockchain. The transaction involved a shipment of 88 cotton bales from Texas to Qingdao, China using a distributed ledger known as ...

Asset owners, managers not prepped for blockchain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
A survey by State Street has found that while 65% of APAC asset owners and managers expect blockchain technology to be widely adopted in the next five years, only 33% of participants actually have blockchain initiatives underway at present to support ...

NAB pursues innovation via global banking alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... table." NAB already partners with CIBC to complete international payment transfers between the two banks via Ripple's blockchain technology. "We believe that the technology has the potential to not only deliver real time international payments, but also ...

State Street partners with blockchain startup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
State Street has teamed up with a blockchain provider in order to offer more transparent, timely and auditable means of reporting. The investment manager has engaged Silicon Valley-based PeerNova to develop a program via its Cuneiform platform aimed ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A New York University professor believes at the very least the ASX should use blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack ...

ASIC and Singapore regulator sign co-op agreement

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... partner ASIC in joint innovation projects on the application of key technologies such as digital and mobile payments, blockchain and distributed ledgers, big data, and Application Programming Interfaces." ASIC chair Greg Medcraft added: "We recognised ...

Robo-advice to impact not replace: CFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... biggest risk introduced by robo-advisers (46%), followed by mis-selling (30%) and data protection (12%). Touching on blockchain technology, the survey revealed that members believed clearing and settlement, alternative currencies and commercial banking ...

Pillar enters blockchain

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
Superannuation services giant Pillar Administration has leapt in to blockchain with a view to address many of the technology inefficiencies in the $2 trillion super industry. At an internal super summit in Wollongong yesterday, Pillar chief executive ...

BNP and SmartAngels announce Blockchain partnership

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... Services and direct investment platform SmartAngels have signed a strategic crowdfunding partnership for the use of blockchain. The partnership will allow private companies to issue securities on the primary market and give investors access to the secondary ...