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To look at the blockchain in practice, I am delighted that we have been able to put together a distinguished panel with real-world experience of what the illuminati call “blockchain solutions”:
Keith Pritchard completed a secondment from JPMorgan to the DTCC in 2017, where he was responsible for building a blockchain-based platform to support the credit derivatives market. He is currently with the consultancy Base60 where he is helping ISDA with the groundwork for a wider distributed ledger strategy.
Martin Walker is currently head of product management at Broadridge for securities finance and collateral management, and worked on capital markets product development at R3 – the firm behind the Corda distributed ledger platform;
Haydn Jones is founder and MD of Blockchain Hub providing educational, strategic and operational support for organisations seeking to leverage blockchain technology;
William Garner is head of CRS’s broking, trading and markets practice, where his list of blockchain clients includes SETL – which uses blockchain technology for payments and settlements (and which now has Deloitte as a major investor).
I hope we will get beyond the hype, to see exactly what is being done by whom and for what in the blockchain space. If you (or a colleague) would like to join us and perhaps share your thoughts, please call the CSFI on 020 7621 1056 or email alex@csfi.org. Thanks to CRS, we can promise generous wine and sandwiches.
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Forum friend Ian Grigg, who I always take very seriously indeed on any such topic, wrote about Corda on his blog and concluded with a powerful statement. Bitcoin told the users it wanted an unstoppable currency - sure, works for a small group but not for the mass market. Ethereum told their users they need an unstoppable machine - which worked how spectacularly with the DAO? Not. What. We. Wanted. Corda is the only game in town because it's the only one that asked the users. It's that simple. From Financial Cryptography: Corda Day - a new force xxx It seems to me, however, what Ian is pointing to as the greatest strength of their approach is also the greatest weakness. A staple feature of unimaginative management consultants presentations about innovation is some variation on the statement by Henry Ford that if you had asked users what they wanted, they would have asked for faster horses coupled with some variation on the statement by Steve jobs that it was pointless ask...