Blockchain and Shared Ledgers: The New Age of the Consortium
This paper discusses the differences between private shared ledgers and public blockchain to support commercial consortia. It then identifies the critical choices to be taken in forming a consortium, including the necessary components of a governance and operational framework.
Shared ledger technologies and opportunities (Volume 10 Number 2, Summer 2016)
This paper sets out a simple shared ledger taxonomy and layered architecture designed to facilitate communication between technologists, businesses and regulators in the financial services world and explains why the various forms of shared ledgers might be attractive to financial services organisations, borrowing the phrase âambient accountabilityâ from architecture to suggest a new way to organise a financial sector.