Settlement Experts Predict Three Fates for Blockchain at Consensus 2016
Two global banking leaders, a banking consortium and a newly minted limited-purpose trust company gathered onstage at the Consensus 2016 conference in New York City to discuss the future of blockchain technology among global financial institutions. Moderated by business editor of The Economist Matthew Bishop, he lead the panel by proposing three possible futures of blockchain technology and asking the panelists to weigh in on the distributed ledger’s fate. Bishop indicated he believes blockchain could either "get rid of a lot of intermediaries", lead to incumbents owning the....
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