CoinDesk's Report on Banking and the Blockchain Now Available
For financial institutions, blockchain technology holds great promise as a way to drive efficiencies into financial payment and settlement systems that have been slow to change. It also offers the potential to revolutionize the issuance and tracking of stocks and shares. Over the last year, many of the world’s biggest banks have started seriously experimenting with the blockchain as a means to solve a variety of issues with legacy financial systems. To this end, many banks have started their own research projects or joined consortiums to experiment with the technology, explore use cases,....
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