Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
Blockchain smart contracts raise systemic risk concerns
Automated swaps margin payments could exacerbate systemic risks, regulators warn
Digital Asset enters healthcare as blockchain questions grow
Masters’ firm quietly moves beyond finance; works with PNC Bank
Masters: blockchain could ease margin headaches
Margining non-cleared derivatives a “massively under-optimised space”, says Digital Asset chief
R3 banks disagree over DLT implementation
Blockchain consortium confident it can raise $150 million by next summer
Smart contracts face cleared world challenge, R3 Summit hears
Follow-on contracting not legally enforceable in some jurisdictions
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