Disrupting Financial Markets (2) — Market Infrastructure In the first article in our series on “Disrupting Financial Markets”, we discussed the advantages of digital securities and how…
Stock Borrowing what is it and why? At its most basic level, Stock Borrowing is the temporary transfer of an asset from an owner to a borrower…
What Actually is Programmable Money? Everyone seems to be interested in programmable money (and assets), but what exactly does this mean? This post explores the…
Radix Launches First Layer-One Protocol for Decentralized Finance As Congestion on Ethereum Reaches Record Highs Radix publishes White Paper introducing four core technologies to prepare DeFi for mass adoption, including a first-of-its kind developer incentive…
Disrupting Financial Markets (1) — The Issuer There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on…
Operational Risk. 3 final observations on the 2011 $2.3B loss at UBS caused by a rogue trader. Insight form the coal face; in 2011 UBS had a $2.3B loss created by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. Beyond the…
Why Most Institutional Investors Still Don’t Lend At first glance the €21 trillion of securities available for loan at the end of 2019 seems a large figure…