Building a better Internet with Syntropy
Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy. Syntropy, based in San Francisco, transforms the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet, where encryption and optimized performance are built-in and automatically enabled for anything and everything connected to it.
The future of financial infrastructure: An ambitious look at how blockchain can reshape financial services
The World Economic Forum (WEF) published a comprehensive, 130-page report which aims to complement existing distributed ledger technology research by providing a clear view into how financial service functions can be reimagined.
Blockchain and the law – An uncharted landscape
The financial and technological industries are coming together to explore the possibilities in blockchain, or distributed ledgers, the technology underlying the digital currency bitcoin. Blockchain offers the potential to become an essential component of the infrastructure for the Internet of Things. This report explores some of the opportunities and challenges.
Backing Australian FinTech
At the recent World Economic Forum it was noted that 90 per cent of the data we use today has been created in the past two years. The ability of new technology to capture and process big data is changing how we do business and the way consumers use products and services.
Opportunities and risks associated with the advent of digital currency in the Caribbean
This report examines the usage of digital currency technology in the Caribbean subregion with a view to drawing attention to the opportunities and risks associated with this new phenomenon. It discusses the broader context of an emerging activity at the global level and considers how this technology could address subregional deficiencies in the electronic payment infrastructure.
Bitcoin
2014 Saw Bitcoin Go (Quietly) Mainstream as Blockchain Tech Unbundled from Bitcoin Currency Prices; 2015 Will be About Enterprise-Class Infrastructure
Opinion Paper on Next Generation Alternative Retail Payments: Infrastructure Requirements: EBA Working Group on Electronic Alternative Payments
In early 2014, the EBA e-AP Working Group published an opinion paper on the user requirements for next generation alternative retail payments. As a next step, the working group has published an opinion paper which aims to facilitate a discussion on the impact of these requirements on retail infrastructures. It focuses on the relation between the interbank infrastructure enabling e-APs and the services that e-APs consist of. After defining and scoping the current role of infrastructures, this paper sets out three possible directions for future developments and suggests an approach to EBA members.
