Barclays Africa Executive: Blockchain Offers African Banks Much Needed Scale
Firm's CIO for CIB discusses unique use cases for distributed ledger technologies on the continent.
There aren't many certainties when it comes to blockchain. As the financial industry continues to test the waters of the new technology ─ whether it's through innovation labs or industry groups ─ there still doesn't seem to be a general consensus on when there will be actual implementations of distributed ledger technology and how big the impact will be.
There are a few things most financial firms can agree on. Reconciliation, payments and the automation of manual processes are areas that are
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