Blockchain: Coming to an equity market near you?

Potential for a single, real-time and permanent data record

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Robert De Dominicis explains what blockchain is and why it could ultimately prove such a significant positive disrupter within the financial services sector

If you are interested in finance or technology - and possibly even if you are not - you are likely to have heard the buzz around ‘blockchain' in recent years. You might also a) not have much idea what blockchain is - something to do with bitcoins maybe? - and b) not really care because it does not really concern you - because it has something to do with bitcoins. Yet despite sounding like something you might use in the toilet, blockchain is actually hugely relevant to financial advisers. It could be a major positive disrupter in the financial services industry and make the way we do busi...

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