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Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility 

Perficient

While distributed ledger technology including blockchains did not exist when Ray Kroc was meeting with his farmers/suppliers, they do exist now and allow all members of a supply chain to see current inventory and materials in transit. Clearly a win-win – all via data (the location of the driver) transparency.

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Insurers Test Blockchain To Manage Provider Data

PYMNTS

The blockchain is making inroads into healthcare. insurance landscape said they’re launching a pilot program that will help boost the management of healthcare provider data. Walker told PYMNTS that “we believe that a permissioned blockchain is the most suitable approach for our pilot.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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Go Where No Operations Department Has Gone Before – Instant Settlement

Perficient

Blockchain Simplifies and Centralizes Trade Flows In the last series of articles published by members of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team , we wrote about the use of blockchain-based supply chains to assist supply chain transaction partners to share data through permission-based Blockchain solutions.

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Bitcoin Daily: Signal Messaging App Testing Crypto Payments; Gemini Adds 20 Tokens To Exchange; SIA, WizKey Partner For Credit Market Based On Blockchain

PYMNTS

Signal is exploring the idea of adding cryptocurrency payments into its messaging app by integrating MobileCoin , a cryptocurrency supported by the Stellar blockchain, Platformer reported. MobileCoin complements the privacy-focused app in that it is “more resistant to surveillance,” according to a 2017 Wired report.

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Blockchain in Capital markets: Emerging use cases I

Bank Innovation

Wholesale financial services has attracted more of the talk and the very early “walk” of blockchain use cases. 15 months ago when I officially committed to Fintech content creation in Capital markets and Wealth management; I was cautious not to discuss blockchain (still not included in Word’s standard dictionary).

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Blockchain-Powered B2B FinTech Roars Back With VCs

PYMNTS

It’s been several months, if not years, since blockchain was the darling of tech startup investors, but this week proved the technology still has a lot to offer venture capitalists. blockchain startup Envoy will be used to bolster its supply chain and trade finance platform, the company told PYMNTS in an emailed announcement.