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Blockchain in Practice

LegalFling is the first blockchain based app to verify explicit consent before having sex.
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LegalFling is the first blockchain based app to verify explicit consent before having sex.
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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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