S&P Global Ratings wrote in a report last June: “Although we think blockchain could help the operational management of sukuk, we believe it will not induce any changes in the legal substance...
This week we’ve seen two instances of why private market assets require credentialed 3rd party marks. First, Petco went public, again, soaring 60% as soon as stock traders could get their hands...
JPMorgan is using DLT for repo. From reports last week: “JPMorgan has announced a successful blockchain-based repo transaction – with the potential to reduce such payments to hours rather than days. The...
We have so many things to be grateful for as we start a new year and one of them is our friendship with Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez. He joined our advisory...
As talk of $3 trillion in stimulus spending swirls in Washington & bitcoin trades between $30-40k+ now is a good time to re-examine the Fed’s view on blockchain & digital money. Last...
Yesterday the WSJ revealed the recent SolarWinds cyber-security attack caused breaches “at U.S. government agencies; U.S. technology and accounting companies, at least one hospital and a university.” From the report: “Customers are...
The impact on commercial real estate from coronavirus is still being calculated, The Wall Street Journal reports: “A recent Citigroup report on 400 properties in the retail and hotel sectors found an...
Tyler Winklevoss & Cameron Winklevoss predicted (see interview in comments below) bitcoin will soar 30-fold in coming years, and indicated comic books & baseball cards would move to blockchains. We’ll leave price...
Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs deputy & Trump economic advisor, had some notable comments this week on tech. He said: “Part of the integrity of a system is knowing who owns it...
Outstanding reporting by Michael del Castillo of Forbes. He writes: “Credit card giant Visa today announced it is connecting its global payments network of 60 million merchants to the U.S. Dollar Coin...
Today’s WSJ talks about employees’ reluctance to return to the office since Labor Day. From the article: “Attendance is up sharply from an April low of less than 15%, which largely consisted...
Great report by Analytics Insight on 2021 trends in Big Data. Excerpts: “Actionable Data: 2021 will see more emphasis on actionable data. This data signifies the missing connection between business propositions &...
Deloitte penned an excellent piece on “Digital transformation through the lens of COVID-19”. The Big 4 accounting leader touched on ‘Acute Disruption’: “The acute disruption brought on by COVID-19 seems to have...
