Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By eliminating middlemen, cross-border blockchain payments can result in even faster transfers while significantly reducing costs for both merchants and customers.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 28, 2019

I often say that blockchain is one of the most complex areas, combining all we don’t know about technology with all we don’t understand about finance. Some things that claim to be blockchain don’t use blockchains, and some blockchains claim not … The post Who needs a blockchain?

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

I just gave a presentation on blockchain. I haven’t been asked to make a specific presentation on blockchain for over a year, so it meant dusting off some rusty notes and slides and thinking about where we are today. I know that last year, I spent most of the year … The post Are you pulling my blockchain?

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Let's take a look at the what blockchain is, and how it can help transform the mobile payments industry.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 4, 2019

What's holding the blockchain back? What can make it more secure? Panelists at Financial Services Data Security Summit, sponsored by Thales and Networld Media Group, shared thoughts on these issues.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 7, 2017

Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital firm to focus exclusively on DLT technology is offering digital tokens that represent a stake in the firm’s third fund. The tokens are held on the Ethereum blockchain […].

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 21, 2019

Today’s share is from Simon Taylor, he of the blockchain fame … The post Will blockchain replace core banking? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Futurist Ian Khan sees the potential for blockchain going beyond revolutionizing the payments industry to transforming entire cities.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 7, 2018

I recently wrote an article for Bloomberg’s Business Week, and thought it worth sharing with y’all here: What’s next for blockchain? Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2016

So much has happened with blockchain over the past couple of weeks—so very much—but let’s talk about the banks: Firstly, Bank of America is the latest to join the ranks of financial institutions experimenting with blockchain. Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently announced at Sibos that it was collaborating with Read More.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 14, 2018

I haven’t written about blockchain for a while. I’m not bored of the promise of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Just bored of how much hype there has been and of so many companies claiming to have the latest blockchain breakthrough. … The post Do we need a blockchain?

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Chris Skinner

JULY 9, 2019

My examples include John and Patrick Collison, Stripe, who were 19 and 21 when they started their business; Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, who were in their mid-20’s when they created Venmo; Nicolay Storonsky, who was … The post The 10-year-old who runs a blockchain company appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

But when the interviewer, Erik Schatzker, asks her … The post Ana Botin of Santander on FinTech and Blockchain appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. It starts with talking about how Santander can make a difference on climate change with Ana claiming that the bank is voted the most sustainable bank in the world.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2020

Blockchain is an example of a distributed ledger systems and as such shares the same performance a concerns as any other distributed systems. The original blockchain paper implemented an elegant solution to this problem: the Merkle tree. In blockchain systems, a block must hold a complete history of all valid transactions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Is now the prime time for blockchain ? As COVID-19 has disrupted supply chains worldwide, Brian Behlendorf , executive director of Hyperledger , told Karen Webster that the pandemic has spurred a shift in thinking about new use cases for permissioned blockchains. The Emerging Use Cases.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2018

Bank of America has more blockchain-related patents than any other firm in the U.S., The report counted a total of 1,045 blockchain […]. according to a new report by New York-based law firm EnvisionIP. According to the report, Bank of America has 43 patents while Mastercard and IBM have 27 each, followed by 14 from Fidelity.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 13, 2017

Financial services have been experimenting with blockchain projects for quite a while now. In fact, 2017 seems to be the year blockchain is set to break out of the Proof-of-Concept stage and into production environments — yes, even for banks.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

These included: Mastercard partners R3 … R3 and Infosys complete blockchain trade finance trial Wells Fargo’s Stablecoin ‘Faster, Cheaper’ Than SWIFT … The post Blockchain: a solution looking for a problem? One of the main headline grabbers for me came from R3.

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Payments Dive

JUNE 11, 2019

Giants in retail, banking and the Web are rapidly adopting blockchain technologies. But, will these companies such as Google and Facebook truly dominate blockchain?

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

You and I probably think it’s just that once a year renewal … The post InsurTech’s big ticket items: machine learning on the blockchain appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. There are lots of interesting nuances in insurance.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 1, 2019

Talking about spoof news, I think my blog Blockchain is dead upset a few blockchain enthusiasts. Don’t get me wrong, as it’s … The post UPDATE: The Blockchain Hype is Dead! For those fooled by yesterday’s spoof news about Alipay and Visa, did you notice it was April 1? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Payments Dive

APRIL 16, 2019

Facebook and PayPal are beginning to make investments in blockchain that could have a major impact in the payments business.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are three major problems that are keeping the blockchain out of the mainstream: poor reputation, lack of education and lack of full solutions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Morgan ’s Onyx , told Karen Webster that peer-to-peer (P2P) private blockchain networks can help streamline information flows tied to cross-border payments and remove the complexities tied to legacy systems. Morgan said it had established Onyx, a new business unit dedicated to blockchain and digital currencies. Liink, J.P.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

United Nations global blockchain expert Massimo Buonomo has foreseen a future where digital currencies could replace low-interest bank accounts, Coindesk reports. Visa has also explored the idea, with a patent application for its own digital currency, underpinned by blockchain.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

Japan-based credit card and payment firm JCB has announced a partnership with tech startup accelerator TECHFUND to explore the idea of a payment system with blockchain options, the company said on Friday (May 15). TECHFUND isn’t new to the blockchain sphere, having explored helping entrepreneurs with service token offerings in the past.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 3, 2018

BitPay, a blockchain payments company, closed a Series B of $40 million yesterday, the company announced. The money, as previously mentioned by the startup, will go towards expanding its international operations. The first stop for this expansion will be Asia.

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Accenture

JANUARY 8, 2021

The post CBDC and Technology: Enabling blockchain to drive change appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog. CBDC tokens can exhibit features akin to those of a bearer instrument—such as a bank note—encapsulating all of the properties needed to assign value,….

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 20, 2018

and the National Bank of Canada (NBC) announced today that they tested a debt insurance simulation on a new blockchain platform. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Standard Chartered has announced the completion of the first cross-bank Letter of Credit (LC) transaction over blockchain, between Vietnam and Thailand, according to a report from FinanceFeeds. It was completed over the blockchain-based Contour network, which is an open industry platform and focused on digitizing trade finance.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I just saw a report from the World Economic Forum, who estimate that over $1 trillion in new trade will be created through blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) over the next decade. trillion will be generated by blockchain trade appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Bold claims.

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Perficient

MARCH 17, 2023

Blockchain Is A Permanent Record In the last series of articles published by members of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team, we wrote about the improved visibility of blockchain-based supply chains assisting all supply chain transaction partners to share data through permission-based Blockchain solutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

And it could be one of the killer apps for blockchain. “We That will be possible due to two features of blockchain. Because it is essentially a digital ledger, every element of an agreement between a food supplier and vendor is captured on blockchain and cannot be amended without the express consent of both parties.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2019

Fintech executives sounded off on blockchain at CB Insights’ Future of Fintech conference this week. According to Henrique Dubugras, CEO and co-founder of Brex, blockchain is overhyped but cryptocurrencies are underrated. The corporate credit card startup is fresh off a $100 million funding round that has landed it a $2.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To explore the positive impacts of blockchain on small businesses, the U.S. The “Building Blocks of Change: The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses” hearing will be held on March 4 at 11:30 a.m. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business plans to hold a hearing next week.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

It’s a tall order, Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson told Karen Webster in a recent digital discussion, but the power of blockchain can be critical in addressing it. The consumer chooses to access their health record via a blockchain transaction, then chooses which businesses they wish to share information with, he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

JCB , a Japanese card provider, is developing a blockchain B2B payment offering specifically for netting trades between two parties. In May, JCB unveiled a partnership with TECHFUND , the tech upstart accelerator, to look into the idea of a payment infrastructure with blockchain options.

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