Financial Blockchain Applications will be Measured in the Trillions, says Blythe Masters at Exponential Finance 2015
The Singularity University and CNBC are hosting the Exponential Finance 2015 conference n New York, on June 2-3. The conference examines how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital currencies and robotics are rapidly disrupting businesses throughout the financial industry. The....
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Former JP Morgan credit default swap pioneer, Blythe Masters, believes that distributed digital ledgers have the potential to empower business models and will fundamentally change how our financial world operates. Speaking at Exponential Finance 2015, Blythe Masters, former Head of Global Commodities at JP Morgan, presented her views on how blockchain technology and public ledgers can disrupt current business models, and why major financial institutions and regulators should explore their potentials. "Economic transactions on a digital ledger can be programmed to record virtually anything....
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