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Blockchain: What happened during my stay in South Africa? (Part II)

| 30-12-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | In the past three weeks I travelled throughout South Africa. My main focus was on the country, the people, the safaris, the Big Five and not on blockchain! Now being back home I was curious to learn if there were developments in the blockchain area.  A number of […]

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Blockchain: what happened during my stay in South Africa? (Part I)

| 28-12-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | In the past three weeks I travelled throughout South Africa. My main focus was on the country, the people, the safaris, the Big Five and not on blockchain! Now being back home I was curious to learn if there were developments in the blockchain area.  A number of […]

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Blockchain: how to make it operational in your company?

| 29-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | Today, I was invited to participate in a Challenge meeting at the Euroforum Fintech event in Amsterdam. My challenge was the following. Suppose we are somewhat further in time. Blockchain is far beyond the hype, the initial overdone expectations have been brought to a more realistic level and the […]

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Could blockchain bring the EU Capital Market Union forward?

| 10-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | The European Commission recently launched an update report on the state of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project. A comprehensive program of actions set out a year ago to put in place the building blocks for this CMU by 2019. Aim is to create deeper, and more integrated capital […]

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Blockchain: can it be of help for the agricultural industry?

| 03-11-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | During my economics study in the seventieth of last century (indeed a long time ago!) one of the courses I followed was agricultural economics. Recently I met a Canadian (with Dutch roots) from the agricultural business and we were talking about the opportunities for using blockchain technology in […]

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Blockchain, near real-world projects and collaboration: viable approaches

| 25-10-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | In one of my earlier blogs I wrote that we are beyond the hype of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Support in the financial industry and beyond for this technology is accelerating in a rapid way. A lot of time and money is now invested into blockchain and its […]

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Blockchain and Hyperledger Hackfest: from another planet

| 17-10-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | Last week I was invited to attend a Hyperledger Hackfest at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. This event organized by the Hyperledger Fab led by IBM took place in the rooms of the bank’s new Innovation Lab, an ultra-modern environment. Certainly the right place for such a happening. Technical specialists and […]

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Blockchain and the Hyperledger project: beyond the hype

| 27-09-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | Who is not yet convinced of the potential of blockchain? Here is another example that shows blockchain is beyond the hype. Early September, the Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort to advance blockchain technology, announced that 17 new companies and organisations have joined, bringing the total number of […]

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Blockchain, financial regulatory reporting and challenges

| 20-09-2016 | Carlo de Meijer | It is always challenging to look for new topics worth mentioning related to blockchain or distributed ledger technology. One issue that needs special attention is financial regulation reporting under blockchain. In June, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation (or discussion) paper “The Distributed Ledger […]