Search Results - subject:"Distributed Ledger"

Älykäs sopimus : miten blockchain muuttaa sopimuskäytäntöjä?

Lauslahti, Kristian; Mattila, Juri; Seppäläinen, Timo O. - 2016

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CRIX or evaluating blockchain based currencies

Trimborn, Simon; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2016

The S&P500 or DAX30 are important benchmarks for the financial industry. The first mimics the performance of the major US on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, while the second does the same for the German Prime Share sector. These and other indices describe different compositions of certain segments of...

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Blockchain technology : what is it good for?

Ammous, Saifedean - 2016

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How can cryptocurrency and blockchain technology play a role in building social and solidarity finance?

Scott, Brett - 2016

The decentralized digital currency Bitcoin - and its underlying "blockchain" technology - has created much excitement in the technology community, but its potential for building truly empowering social and solidarity-based finance has yet to be tested. This paper provides a primer on the basics...

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Product-centric information management : a case study of a shared platform with blockchain technology : conference paper : Industry Studies Association Conference, 24.5 – 26.5.2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Mattila, Juri; Seppälä, Timo; Holmström, Jan - 2016

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The future of financial infrastructure : an ambitious look at how blockchain can reshape financial services : an industry project of the financial services community : part of the future of financial services series

Weltwirtschaftsforum - 2016

findings include: i) Distributed ledger technology (blockchain) has the potential to drive simplicity and efficiency by … establishing new financial services infrastructure and processes; ii) Distributed ledger technology will form the foundation of … orthodoxies in today's business models. The report is centered on use cases, considering how distributed ledger technology could …

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A maturity model for blockchain adoption

Wang, Huaiqing; Chen, Kun; Xu, Dongming - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 12, pp. 1-11

Background: The rapid development of the blockchain technology and its various applications has rendered it important to understand the guidelines for adopting it. Methods: The comparative analysis method is used to analyze different dimensions of the maturity model, which is mainly based on the...

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Fraud detections for online businesses : a perspective from blockchain technology

Cai, Yuanfeng; Zhu, Dan - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 20, pp. 1-10

Background: The reputation system has been designed as an effective mechanism to reduce risks associated with online shopping for customers. However, it is vulnerable to rating fraud. Some raters may inject unfairly high or low ratings to the system so as to promote their own products or demote...

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Blockchain application and outlook in the banking industry

Guo, Ye; Liang, Chen - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 24, pp. 1-12

Blockchain technology is a core, underlying technology with promising application prospects in the banking industry. On one hand, the banking industry in China is facing the impact of interest rate liberalization and profit decline caused by the narrowing interest-rate spread. On the other hand,...

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Are blockchains immune to all malicious attacks?

Xu, Jennifer J. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 25, pp. 1-9

Background: In recent years, blockchain technology has attracted considerable attention. It records cryptographic transactions in a public ledger that is difficult to alter and compromise because of the distributed consensus. As a result, blockchain is believed to resist fraud and hacking....

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