Yesterday Finextra reported that another 23 banks have joined Italian’s Spunta platform [1], on top of the 32 that have been present at the launch of the system a month ago [2]. The project’s goal is to simplify the reconciliation of interbank transfers, which for the time being is a pain-staking bilateral process. It has been sponsored by the Italian Bankers’ Association ABI [3]. The underlying technology is based on Corda [4,5] with ABI Labs coordinating the work of R3, NTT Data and SIA [6-9].
As widely reported today, Facebook’s Calibra wallet today rebranded to Novi. Less widely reported however is the most important piece, then link-up with WhatsApp and Facebook messenger [1].
This episode is the second of my Consensus interview episodes where I am discussing with some of the people I met at the excellent networking event what they got out of the conference, and what they thought of the virtual format. In today’s episode we have Brian Nistler from Lowenstein Sandler, Carlos Cabrera from Sigma Capital, and Laura Harper Powell who is a regulatory policy attorney in the US.
Today’s episode is with Thomas Barker, a software engineer and my goto person for everything blockchain technology, with whom I’ll discuss Hyperledger Cactus that recently graduated from Hyperledger’s Lab to the Greenhouse [1]. Hyperledger Cactus is the old “Blockchain Integration Framework” [2] that allows different blockchains to interact with each other, and having standardised technology of this kind is a key step in the blockchain ecosystem growing up.
After the long post on my future vision and tokenisation, and after a number of good conversations of twitter (thanks @polemitis and @pascalbouvier) today a more focused post on what the value proposition of fractionalisation has to be for investors so that fractionalisation will take off.
This episode is the first of my Consensus interview episodes where I am discussing with some of the people I met at the excellent networking event what they got out of the conference, and what they thought of the virtual format. In today’s episode we have Lourdes Miranda from Miranda FinIntel Consulting, Harrison Wright aka “The Blockchain Recruiter”, and John McLaughlin, CEO of McKurz Capital.
Apparently there is a “non-paper” circulating by the European Union that addresses future crypto regulations. I haven’t seen it yet (please send it my way if you have it) but there are some details in CityAM [1].