Blockchain
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58Why Blockchain Is Changing Financial Networks
SWIFT, the financial messaging network that connects 11,000 institutions across 200 countries, began testing blockchain interoperability in late 2023 with over 30...
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How Crypto Infrastructure Is Expanding Globally
In January 2024, Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) issued its 19th operating licence for a digital asset company. The same month,...
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The Future of Blockchain-Driven Financial Services
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, told shareholders in his 2024 annual letter that tokenisation of financial assets would be “the next generation...
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Why Blockchain Is Attracting Institutional Interest
In May 2024, the State of Wisconsin Investment Board disclosed a $163 million position in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF. A public pension...
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How Blockchain Is Reinventing Financial Systems
A wire transfer between New York and Tokyo still takes one to three business days to settle. The sender’s bank debits the...
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The Rise of Blockchain-Powered Financial Platforms
Coinbase reported $6.6 billion in revenue for 2024. Uniswap, a decentralised exchange with no corporate headquarters and roughly 80 employees, facilitated over...
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How Blockchain Supports Financial Innovation
In March 2023, a single Ethereum transaction executed a flash loan of $200 million, used it to arbitrage a price difference across...
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Why Blockchain Adoption Is Accelerating
On January 10, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs simultaneously. Within 11 months, these funds accumulated...
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The Growth of Blockchain in Financial Services
Deutsche Bank spent $5.4 billion on technology in 2024, with blockchain infrastructure accounting for a growing share of that budget. The bank...
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How Blockchain Is Transforming the Fintech Landscape
Stripe added stablecoin payment processing in 2024, allowing merchants to accept USDC and settle in dollars without handling crypto directly. The company...
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Why Blockchain Is Critical to Digital Finance
When the European Investment Bank issued a €100 million digital bond on Ethereum in November 2023, it did not use blockchain because...
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The Role of Blockchain in Future Financial Systems
In 2015, the World Economic Forum predicted that 10% of global GDP would be stored on blockchain by 2027. That estimate now...
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How Blockchain Enables Transparent Financial Services
When FTX collapsed in November 2022, auditors discovered that the exchange had been lending customer deposits to its sister company Alameda Research...
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Why Blockchain Is Becoming Financial Infrastructure
Broadridge Financial Solutions processes over $10 trillion in fixed-income transactions daily. In 2024, the company expanded its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform,...
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The Next Stage of Blockchain Innovation
Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade in March 2024 reduced Layer 2 transaction costs by over 90% overnight. A transaction on Arbitrum that cost $0.50...
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How Blockchain Is Transforming Global Finance
In Dubai, a government-owned free zone called DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) granted crypto exchange licences to Binance, OKX, and Bybit in...
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The Rise of Blockchain-Enabled Financial Ecosystems
Ethereum hosts over 4,000 decentralised applications, processes $50 billion in weekly DeFi volume, and secures more than $80 billion in total value...
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Why Blockchain Is Reshaping Fintech Innovation
A fintech startup in 2015 needed a banking licence (or a bank partner willing to sponsor one), a payment processor integration, a...
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How Blockchain Improves Financial Connectivity
A corporate treasurer at a multinational company manages an average of 27 banking relationships across different countries, currencies, and time zones. Each...
