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Blockchain & Financial Services: The Fifth Horizon of Networked Innovation

July 10, 2017

How can you capitalize on the disruption that blockchain is introducing into the global financial system? What are the risks and opportunities that this new technology represents? What roles can each of government, academia and private industry play in shaping the new future that blockchain can enable? Blockchain represents a technology innovation that enables transparent interactions of parties on a more trusted and secure network which distributes access to data. Although the technical components have been in existence for decades, blockchain qua blockchain is a novel, resilient, and ubiquitous approach to data, transaction analytics and networks.

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