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CHAIN-FINANCE, a provider of news, research & workshops on blockchain technologies for global financial services, today announced the debut of its first Blockchain-Finance Workshop in London on March 16, 2016. Speakers from Credits, Ethereum, Nxt, UBS, and the Stephen Lawrence Scholars will contribute to the agenda.
In January 2016 alone, major banks & financial institutions invested more than $100 million in the blockchain companies Blockstream and Digital Asset Holdings. In one year, New York-based R3 CEV has built a consortium of 45 retained global banks to build a blockchain technology standard for banking.
For capital markets in general, the use of distributed ledger technology will achieve better data efficiencies and improve transaction processing and settlement. At almost $90 trillion, the global debt market, known as the "bond market" or "credit market", dwarfs the equities market by $32 trillion. (Source: Bank of International Settlement Quarterly Review, December 2014)
For the first London 2016 CHAIN-FINANCE workshop, speakers and attendees will examine how blockchain technology can be used to improve bond issuance, trading & settlement in credit markets.
Confirmed speakers include:
- George Hallam - Ethereum Foundation
- Nick Williamson - CEO & Founder, Credits Vision
- Nick Grove - NXT Foundation
- Alex Batlin - Senior Innovation Manager, UBS
- Peter A. Jensen - CEO, Finclusion Systems LTD
- Daniel Adeyemi - Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholar
To register for CHAIN-FINANCE Workshop, "How Can Blockchain Technology Improve Credit Markets?" on March 16, 2016, or find out more information, visit http://blockchain-finance.com/workshops/
