The paper proposes an architecture for implementing the Bank of England's basic principles for the design of a CBDC with a focus on real-time high value, often cross border, enterprise transactions. The use of digital ledger technology makes innovative use of chaincode - smart contracts...

The financial services industry covers banks, insurance companies and investment managers, as well as transaction or message processing companies. To streamline billions of daily transactions, lean principles and operational excellence programs have found theirway to financial service firms....

Fraud exists in all walks of life and detecting and preventing fraud represents an important research question relevant to many stakeholders in society. With the rise of big data and artificial intelligence, new opportunities have arisen in using advanced machine learning models to detect fraud....

Although there are many versions of blockchain technology today, it was first introduced in 2008 as the technology supporting Bitcoin, the first successful virtual currency system. Yet in and of itself, Blockchain technology is much more than the underpinning for Bitcoin (and other...

This chapter studies the emergence of blockchain technology as an effective tool for providing transparency in supply chains. We first discuss how supply chain applications of this technology differ from cryptocurrency networks, and identify why this technology is useful in supply chains. We...