FinTech Rising

Reports at the intersection of money, banking, securities, and payments with digital technologies

Blockchain

The Mortgage Blockchain

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Gaining the ideal-state efficiencies that blockchain technology requires cooperation across a value chain. Almost certainly, it will require significant government collaboration and resources, especially when public records are involved. Governments are known more for regulation than collaboration, but this is starting to change. At the Chicago Blockchain Summit last week, … [Read more...] about The Mortgage Blockchain

Collaboration: Blockchain

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FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 10/15/17 Collaboration between banks and FinTech startups came to focus as financial media expanded on the need for collaboration, and a blockchain summit provided some cogent examples. "Since 2016, there has been a significant move from banks fearing start-ups and start-ups wanting to disrupt banks, to start-ups and banks working together in … [Read more...] about Collaboration: Blockchain

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 09/27/2017

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Pitchbook's 3Q 2017 blockchain report gives the following summary of recent events: Regulatory statements in China and the U.S. have yet to temper market enthusiasm for the red-hot cryptocurrency and ICO market. SEC recognition that some tokens are securities and some are not is a sensible approach that will encourage the best ideas to continue in a sandbox, while … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 09/27/2017

Capital-Markets FinTech

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FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 08/09/17 FinTech in the capital markets sector is at once intensifying while becoming more pragmatic. For all practical purposes, excitement and hype around blockchain has marked the sector's FinTech profile. By now, expectations are more realistic, and FinTech firms are taking greater interest in other capital-markets applications. "Until … [Read more...] about Capital-Markets FinTech

BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 8/1/17

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Last week the big news was the regulation initial coin offerings, one of the year’s hottest cryptofinance and investment rends. This week, it’s the split in the bitcoin community, leading to two varieties of the digital currency. "It looks like ICOs, shorthand for initial coin offerings, are about to undergo a lot more scrutiny. The SEC has concluded that the digital … [Read more...] about BLOCKCHAIN WATCH 8/1/17