Northern Trust and IBM have built a security-rich blockchain, or distributed ledger solution, based on the Hyperledger Fabric. It is the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market. It is available for use for managing the administration of a private equity fund domiciled in Guernsey and managed by Unigestion, a Geneva, […]

Blockchain technology has the potential to: streamline and accelerate business processes, increase cybersecurity and reduce or eliminate the roles of trusted intermediaries (or centralised authorities) in industry after industry. The blockchain reaction will pull in different industries at different times with differing levels of disruption, bringing both opportunity and risk. Understanding the nature of that […]