Blockchain and Digital Assets News and Trends

May 28, 2019

To remain competitive, companies find themselves increasing their efforts to digitally transform their businesses by developing new offerings based on emerging technologies and integrating these technologies into existing product and service offerings. This is our second monthly bulletin, aiming to help companies identify important and significant legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts and digital assets. While the use cases for blockchain technology are vast, from copyright protection to voting, most of the current adoption is in the financial services section, and this bulletin will primarily focus on the use of blockchain and smart contracts in that sector. With respect to digital assets, we have organized our approach to this topic by discussing it in terms of traditional asset type or function (although the types and functions may overlap); that is, digital assets as.

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Financial Sense® Wealth Management

Financial Sense® Wealth Management is a marriage of two companies—Financial Sense® Advisors, Inc. (Registered Investment Advisor) and Financial Sense® Securities, Inc. (broker/dealer, member FINRA/SIPC) - each sharing the same goal: to provide exceptional asset management and educational resources that help investors build, maintain and preserve their wealth.

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WHITE PAPER - Globiance

whitePaper | July 4, 2022

The goal of the Globiance White-paper, is to offer the reader a comprehensive understanding of Globiance services and platforms, the problems it addresses and the technologies used to solve them. Anyone who regularly engages in trade and finance and is looking to integrate crypto currency usage with on-line banking facilities, will find reading this White-paper essential, while also discovering the specifics about Globiance.

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Corporate Onboarding: Will it become a competitive differentiator for banks in a real time world?

whitePaper | April 19, 2021

The way in which banks onboard corporate clients can impact many aspects of their business, from reducing time to revenue, to improving customer experience and loyalty, and to compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations. This white paper explores how banks can deal with changing KYC regulations and the incoming 6AMLD; what technology can be utilised to assist banks achieve seamless corporate onboarding; and what stands to be lost, and more significantly, to be gained, with a seamless real-time onboarding experience.

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Immersive Banking: A New Paradigm for Customer Engagement in Financial Services

whitePaper | August 2, 2023

As immersive technologies evolve primarily powered by investments from big techs like Apple (Apple placing its most recent bet with Vision Pro), Meta in Metaverse, and related AR/VR technologies, the possibilities are further enhanced by the revolution in the Generative AI space by leaders like Open AI (ChatGPT) and Google (Bard).

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DIGITAL ASSET WHITEPAPER

whitePaper | April 4, 2022

Decentralization, Scalability, or Security: Pick two. In brief, the Trilemma refers to the fact that networks in general (and distributed systems in particular) suffer from internal trust issues, proportionate to their size: The larger the size of any network, the greater the degrees of separation between its members and therefore the lower the level of trust. This problem can only be averted by either a) making it harder to join the network, reducing scalability; or b) delegating the responsibility (and associated privileges) of overseeing the network’s activities to a handful of specialized nodes, sacrificing the inherent appeal of decentralization.

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NEO-PRIVATE BANK & FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE 3.0

whitePaper | April 25, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are the underpinnings of a new financial infrastructure, similar to how the internet was the underpinning of a new information infrastructure. In this paper we present Ledgity, the Neo-Private Bank & Financial infrastructure dedicated to financial advisors and their clients, paving the way for a greater adoption of crypto asset investments and blockchain technology. Beyond the digitization of investors’ experience, we make it easy for financial advisors and their clients to widen their investment scope. For the first time crypto assets and tokenized financial products are easily accessible to traditional finance. Ledgity is the first digital wealth management infrastructure that harnesses the benefit of blockchain technology for the representation and the exchange of assets. Crypto asset investments opportunities and asset tokenization are offered to all, at a finger touch, on our fully integrated platform.

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Xand Technical Whitepaper

whitePaper | July 19, 2022

Paul Allen, an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, had a vision to create better money. He found it confounding that he with his billions would pay less to transfer money than the poorest amongst us. Paul wanted to make money more equitable by making it more efficient and independent of any one financial institution. His team at Vulcan, along with several experts in financial technology, distributed systems, software, and financial regulations, came up with a design they called Xand, playing off Alexander Hamilton’s name, and spun out a new company, Transparent Financial Systems (Transparent) to develop it.

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Spotlight

Financial Sense® Wealth Management

Financial Sense® Wealth Management is a marriage of two companies—Financial Sense® Advisors, Inc. (Registered Investment Advisor) and Financial Sense® Securities, Inc. (broker/dealer, member FINRA/SIPC) - each sharing the same goal: to provide exceptional asset management and educational resources that help investors build, maintain and preserve their wealth.

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