Bank of England Chief: DLT Could 'Reshape' Banking
Distributed ledger tech could "reshape" banking, Bank of England chief Mark Carney said today. The G-20 international organization is hosting a conference on finance and digitalization this week, with blockchain and distributed ledgers forming one of the event’s central themes. The event is being hosted in Germany, in the city of Wiesbaden. Carney, who also acts as chair of the Financial Stability Board – the group of central banks and finance ministers that is conducting its own blockchain research – touched on both the UK central bank’s work with the tech as well as some of the....
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