Can blockchain change wealth management?

Exploring 'smart contracts' and other developments

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To many, the main achievement of blockchain so far has been to create an autonomous decentralised system of money, starting with Bitcoin.

Yet blockchain is often touted within financial services as much more - a technology with huge potential to both disrupt and to turbocharge existing sectors through greater efficiencies and a shorter supply chain. Wealth management is one sector where blockchain possibilities are being lauded. But how? Bitcoin versus the FCA The first area where we will see change occurring is greater efficiency within capital markets and investment management infrastructure to transform the operational architecture of financial services. Lex Solokin, a notable tech venture investor, believes th...

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