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2016 is the year real estate wakes up to blockchain as industry professionals are looking to harness the technology to reduce costs, stamp out fraud and speed up transactions. One particular metric that is proof...

Gem and BTC Media have announced Gem as the title sponsor for Distributed: Health in Nashville, TN, a conference exploring the possibilities blockchain brings to healthcare. Distributed: Health aims to bring blockchain technology and healthcare industry...

Misys, a financial services provider, has conducted an in-depth look at distributed ledger technology use cases across capital markets and corporate banking before concluded that multiple initiatives across the industry are still at proof...

Advisory firm PwC has announced the release of its new report, titled ‘Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology might transform wholesale insurance‏‘. Within this report the rise of new technologies in the FS sector, along...

The blockchain, the core technology underlying the digital currency bitcoin, has gained much interest from the financial services industry with major players all looking to harness its potential in hopes to gain in efficiency...

Financial services advisor Ernst & Young has produced a report on blockchain technology titled ‘Blockchain reaction: Tech plans for critical mass’ which looks into the upcoming potential for the technology. In the report, Ernst...

Xinyuan Real Estate Co., Ltd., a NYSE-listed real estate developer and property manager primarily in China, has announced that its new blockchain-powered real estate finance technology platform was released at the first China Financial...

SETL, a London-based firm that develops blockchain-powered institutional payment and settlement infrastructures, has unveiled its first commercial offering, a new platform that allows market participants to commission and run permissioned registry service for payments,...

Goldman Sachs has recently released a report on blockchain, investigating the potential of the technology to revolutionise different market areas and to determine how effective its use might be in reducing the time, cost...

Chain-Finance attended Professor Michael Mainelli’s seminar on Smart Settlement and Blockchain. Professor Mainelli talked about the copious research his group have been conducting on Mutual Distributed Ledgers (MDL). The Professor will be publishing a...