Karen Mills, former director at Small Business Administration, discusses the influence of smaller financial technology companies on big banks and how the U.S. government could help small businesses.
Liquidity is the degree to which an asset or security can be quickly bought or sold in a market without affecting the asset’s price.
10XTS is piloting XDEX as a solution for compliance automation and fractional liquidity in the Opportunity Zone fund space.
Lately the team has been discussing how we can help incumbent banks and financial services firms accelerate their fintech offerings by using our platform and tools.
With so much hype surrounding the technology over the past few years, you’d think blockchain was a cure for cancer. But not only has it deflated, unless you’re a deep-in-the-weeds developer working on solving very specific problems, you might even be
The notary function has been a necessary aspect to most common law systems with a “notary public”, a public official who validates documents and can administer oaths and attestations or affirmations.
In the future, when we look back at this chapter in the market, it will be tantamount to looking back on the early days of the internet
HSBC announced they will be shifting $20 billion worth of assets to a new blockchain-based custody platform by March 2020. This is a vast improvement of the previous system as the HSBC platform will digitize paper-based records of private placements.
Encryption protects all kinds of electronic communications, as well as things like passwords, digital signatures, and health records.
In the late 1700’s, an English philosopher named Jeremy Bentham enumerated some controversial ideas about social reform. Among his many musings, he believed power should be visible and unverifiable.
China’s president, Xi Jinping, called on his nation to “seize the opportunity” and take a “leading position” in the development of blockchain technology.
The BlockLegalTech conference at Chicago-Kent was really great. Hats off to the folks involved - extremely well done, and what I wish every blockchain/crypto conference would be like. All the smart folks bringing salient topics without the anarcho-capitalist “bring down
Just as Amazon radically altered the retail landscape with Jeff Bezos’ mantra, “Your margin is my opportunity”, now it appears Robinhood is throwing hard punches at the retail financial investment market.
Current blockchain platforms do not create a native, immutable, mathematically provable link between the blockchain and real-world documents about entities, assets, & transactions.
With blockchain, comes added safety and security against changes in historical transactions through its immutability. That same immutability backfires when you have incorrect data present in the blockchain.
Asset tokenization is the process of converting ownership rights in a particular asset into a digital token on a blockchain.