Fantastic Beasts: Blockchain Based Banking

Banking on Blockchain: Costs Savings Thanks to the Blockchain Technology

This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities of implementing blockchain technology across banking, providing food for thought about the potentialities of this disruptive technology. The blockchain technology can optimize the global financial infrastructure, achieving sustainable development, using more efficient systems than at present. In fact, many banks are currently focusing on bloc...

Blockchain manoeuvres: applying Bitcoin's technology to banking

Already there are ideas for using the blockchain to make payments faster and cheaper, to make it easier for small businesses to obtain finance and for banks to assess mortgage portfolios at the click of a mouse. Smart trade finance contracts are being worked on that are so watertight, they will never be argued over in court. Securities transactions could be settled in minutes rather than days. ...

Fantastic Beasts and How To Sequence Them: Ecological Genomics for Obscure Model Organisms.

The application of genomic approaches to 'obscure model organisms' (OMOs), meaning species with no prior genomic resources, enables increasingly sophisticated studies of the genomic basis of evolution, acclimatization, and adaptation in real ecological contexts. I consider here ecological questions that can be addressed using OMOs, and indicate optimal sequencing and data-handling solutions for...

Fantastic beasts and how to sequence them: genomic approaches for obscure model organisms

Blockchain application and outlook in the banking industry

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, it is also affected by economic transformation, Internet development, and financial innovations. Hen...