2018/10/24
Blockchain technology poised to enter European settlement system – is the latest big news in the world of market infrastructure. This is following last week’s announcement that Private blockchain can handle US equity trade volumes. Clearly a lot is happening with blockchain technology among capital markets infrastructure providers. This is also what we found in our recent research CIO Priorities in Capital Markets Infrastructure: Technology Empowers New Models – commissioned by Nasdaq and conducted solely by Celent – where we found 70% of market infrastructure providers in our survey are engaged in pilots or proofs of concept with blockchain technology.