Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
R3’s Rutter: swaps will trade on blockchain in five years
Risk USA: first distributed ledger products could hit the market in 2017
CFETS joins R3-led project
Number of participants rises above 60 since September 2015 launch
Banks test blockchain potential for real-time market surveillance
Regulators can monitor a million active trades and hundreds of messages per second in swap test
Blockchain: a solution looking for a problem
While new financial technologies show considerable promise, many proposed applications are either naive or miss the mark outright
Central banks eye advantages of digital currencies
BoE economist says digital currencies might improve real policy rates, tax rates and bank competition
Central banks are not fintech accelerators – Bundesbank
German payments authority says fintech should receive equal regulatory treatment to banks
Smart contracts to slash time and costs, say technologists
Blockchain to deliver lucrative benefits to derivatives market, London conference hears
Blockchain creators call for new reference data paradigm
Derivatives trade identifiers to leverage off cryptographic hashes
Bitcoin technology could slash transaction risk in banking
Using cryptography to validate transactions may transform finance