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The Global Financial Innovation Network invites Fintech start-ups to test their products and services across borders
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Banks Help Blockchain Move from Bitcoin to IoT

The Global Financial Innovation Network invites Fintech start-ups to test their products and services across borders

By Jim Bulling and Luke Camilleri

On 1 February 2019, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced its participation in the recently created Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN). The GFIN is comprised of 29 regulatory bodies from jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The GFIN was established to:

  • act as a network of regulators to collaborate and share experiences of innovation in respective markets, including emerging technologies and business models, and to provide accessible regulatory contact information for firms;
  • provide a forum for joint regtech work and collaborative knowledge sharing; and
  • provide firms with an environment in which to trial cross-border solutions.
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Banks Help Blockchain Move from Bitcoin to IoT

By Susan P. Altman

As companies continue to look for practical uses for blockchain’s distributed ledger technology, we’re seeing interesting collaborations between major banks, global technology players, and nimble startup fintech companies. To be sure, banks are still focused on blockchain as it applies to financial services. BNY Mellon recently hosted a blockchain event at which presenters discussed whether blockchain should be viewed by banks as a disrupter or an opportunity. (Naturally the bank is looking for opportunity.) Of particular interest to the lawyers is the discussion of legal risks raised by blockchain, which include problems already in existence, such as data privacy concerns across geographic jurisdictions, and new problems created by blockchain, such as identifying where an asset is when no one bank or entity is the custodian of the record.

But the banks aren’t only experimenting with, dare we say, traditional financial uses for blockchain; they’re right in the mix trying to figure out how to exploit blockchain in industries far beyond the bitcoin world. BNY Mellon has also, for example, joined Cisco, Foxconn, security company Gemalto and several blockchain startups in a collaboration to develop a shared blockchain protocol for the Internet of Things. Blockchain could potentially improve security of IoT applications and create a tamperproof manufacturing, maintenance and supply chain history, areas not typically viewed as concerns of large financial institutions. Banks are experimenting with supply chain technology. Now that’s looking for opportunity in the world of disruption.

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