Chris Skinner

JULY 4, 2018

Conservative MP Eddie Hughes has just written a 36-page white paper extolling the benefits of blockchain for Britain, which was published yesterday Unlocking Blockchain: Embracing new technologies to drive efficiency and empower the citizen, by FREER.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Innovate Finance has been working with the Department of International Trade (DIT) on a report on blockchain and the future of financial services. The report was developed with the help of the Economist Intelligence Unit and is now available here.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

You and I probably think it’s just that once a year renewal … The post InsurTech’s big ticket items: machine learning on the blockchain appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. There are lots of interesting nuances in insurance.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The World Bank announced it has raised $33 million from investors for its blockchain-based “Kangaroo” bond, Bond- i. The bond, which is due August 2020, is the first bond created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life-cycle using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. This isn’t World Bank’s only blockchain project.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 5, 2016

Friday’s blog was all about bank innovation labs and structures. A serious and committed undertaking this time around, with many experimentations and proofs of concept taking place, especially around blockchain.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 2, 2016

So I just attended a really interesting two day meeting that covered all things blockchain, regulations, innovation and more. I’ll blog about the bits I can in the next few days, and thought I’d start with an overview of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Regulatory Sandbox and Project Innovate.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 26, 2018

I was honoured to accept to be the moderator of the afternoon and guess I was chosen because Alipay and Ant Financial are a … The post Ant Financial’s Strategy for AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and more appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 25, 2019

It is that time of year when we do an annual review of the blogs our readers viewed the most on our Insights on Banking blog. Looking at the top five blog entries of 2018, we see that using technology to meet the ever-increasing scale and rate of regulatory change is top of mind for financial service organizations.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 3, 2019

Dominic Venturo, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at U.S. Bank, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation Build 2019, this blog’s event on best practices in banking innovation. Bank Innovation Build will take place November 6-7 at Atlanta’s W Hotel Downtown.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2019

New Jersey ’s governor has signed a bill to implement a Blockchain Initiative Task Force. Bill S2297 explained that the task force will study potential uses for blockchain technology on the state and local level, with an emphasis on medical records, land records, banking, and property auctions as potential applications.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. These shortcomings make the cross-border payment industry ripe for disruption and innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2019

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank are partnering up to launch a private blockchain and “quasi-cryptocurrency.”. In addition, Learning Coin’s app will serve as a “hub for knowledge” where blogs, research, videos and presentations can be stored.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lots of people saying that blockchain is past its sell-by date, R3 are bust and distributed ledgers are dead.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 12, 2017

So one of my 2017 forecasts is coming true already: it is the year that blockchain moves out of proofs of concept and work and into the mainstream. Two great examples broke out this week from skunk works to media.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

Blockchain probably won’t solve all the world’s financial problems, as devoutly as innovators and enthusiasts may hope and believe that it can. Esther Pigg, SVP Product Strategy of FIS , says blockchain’s potential benefits will instead be discovered gradually, and will change the industry even more gradually.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

.” Oliver was discussing cryptocurrencies and blockchain on his show, highlighting the massive potential the world of FinTech has touted for the last year or so. This balance of optimism and realism is taking over the blockchain space as of late. But the segment also warned to temper the hype with healthy skepticism.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 28, 2017

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation. See you in Boston!

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Spending on blockchain technologies will ramp up to $9.2 Its latest Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide also calculated a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of blockchain spend of 81.2 2018 will be a crucial stage for enterprises as they make a huge leap from proof-of-concept projects to full blockchain deployments.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2023

In our first blog in this series, Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility , we covered why visibility is so crucial in the supply chain for all parties and gave examples of firms using distributed ledgers to help improve customer service, reduce inventory costs, provide proactive status updates, and help mitigate risk.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 21, 2018

AI, AGI, ASI (Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence); machine learning and deep learning; blockchain, shared ledgers and distributed ledger technologies; cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies and digital currencies; Open Banking and Open APIs; and so on and … The post How quantum will change everything (..)

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As part of the blockchain conference, I chaired a session with some central bankers talking about their views on distributed ledger technologies. These central banks have run trials and are thinking about it, but none of them are particularly big on blockchain right now.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 5, 2016

Our main stories of this week includes … Regulations, Innovations, Sandboxes and #RegTech So I just attended a really interesting two day meeting that covered all things blockchain, regulations, innovation and more.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 21, 2018

I’ve been thinking for a while now about building a new financial system from the ground up using AI, blockchain, the Internet of Everything and other technologies. I guess the piece that inspired a lot of my thinking came from two … The post The future financial world is here appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Thai state-owned oil and gas company PTT and blockchain energy nonprofit Energy Web Foundation (EWF) have announced that they are teaming up to build a blockchain-based renewables platform. account and select the tier of verification required to achieve your desired withdrawal limits,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 6, 2018

I’ve been tempted for some time to write a book about how sex is at the heart of commerce, innovation and money. Money and rumpy-pumpy (sex) are the twin engines … The post Banking isn’t really about money appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

“After careful consideration with our customers in mind, we recently decided that now is not the time to develop the idea further and bring it to the next phase of innovation,” a Rabobank spokesperson told The Next Web. Some users shared images on Twitter of a supposed Ripple-based app for cross-border transactions.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 4, 2016

She’s kindly agreed to let me republish this summary here on The Finanser, so here goes: Once upon a time it was all blockchain!blockchain!blockchain!…Now blockchain!blockchain!…Now blockchain!…Now …Now it’s all brexit!brexit!brexit!

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I wrote a blog the other day for The Next Web. Then FinTech has also gained subcategories like Lending, Analytics, Digital Identity, Cybersecurity, SME Finance, Financial Inclusion, Payments, Roboadvice, Blockchain Distributed Ledgers, Neobanking and more. I thought it was ok, and it has gained a lot of traction socially.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

If recent forecasts from the World Economic Forum (WEF) are to be believed, blockchain – the technology behind bitcoin – is set to become “the beating heart of the financial system” But some in the industry might not be entirely clear about what blockchain even is, let alone the impact it could have on how banks do business.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 12, 2018

So, I was particularly interested when in Sunday’s Guardian, I saw the headline Blockchain: hype or hope. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. In fact, I love it when someone points out I’m wrong, and shows me why, because I learn something. It’s quite a good article, and talks about … The post bitcoin you say?

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

Embedded Finance and Blockchain . You may be wondering if embedded finance conflicts with distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain. In this blog, we defined what embedded finance is and what companies should consider as they decide whether they should pursue embedded finance as a firm. Conclusion .

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Chinese payments provider LianLian is joining Ripple’s payment network, RippleNet, to use its blockchain technology for faster cross-border payments, the companies announced today. Ripple stated in a blog post. LianLian CEO Arthur […].

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Insights on Business

JULY 23, 2018

CxOs are somewhat divided about whether the innovation focus will be on new or established markets. Previously, they thought open innovation would predominate, but now a growing number of these executives anticipate more internal-driven innovation. They’re neither as focused nor as agile as Reinventors.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 13, 2016

In a final post about African transformation through technology, I’ve covered the key themes: mobile financial inclusion, smartphone innovation through apps, digital currencies and blockchain identities. One thing missed is a mention of the Water ATM.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Trade finance is a dynamic, highly innovative business with multiple opportunities linked to new technologies and environmental/social/regulatory demands. For more on trade finance, have a look at my previous blog series , where I examined the need for change, impacts of blockchain and how banks can recapture momentum.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 9, 2017

A summary of the main blogs of the week … Solving state corruption with technology I try to generally avoid making political commentary on the blog as it’s not appropriate. This is a blog about technology and finance, not the economy and politics. Every now and again the two come together such as with Brexit and Donald Trump.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. Helps institutions discover and execute their blockchain strategies. YUKKA Lab AG detects market sentiments and transforms them into innovative tools for the finance and communications industry. Innovative AI chat and voice solutions to empower banking customers.

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