Infrastructures talk about Blockchain

Alternative Investment Funds have the wind in their sails and the ‘glass ceiling’ is far from being reached. What role will these funds play in the evolution of AUM development in Luxembourg, towards the level of 5,000 billion? Interview with Mathieu Maurier, Country Head Luxembourg for Societe Generale Securities Services.

Blockchain, Fintech, Regtech, Suptech… these terms describe the most commonly used innovations and new technologies in the financial sector. The recent acceleration of progress in the digital field and the necessity for users to gain technological agility make this a priority issue, particularly in the banking industry. Making these issues part of a strategy...

The past 12 months have seen initiatives across the globe further experiment with blockchain technology in pursuit of the holy grail of a production ready Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) payments solution. Alongside FinTech initiatives, individual banks, central banks and SWIFT have confirmed their interest in DLT, testing the waters with various trials...

Put simply, a blockchain is a shared database providing a token manager and programmable transactions that can be updated securely by many different actors in a network. All changes made to the blockchain are logged, effectively leaving a complete audit trail of data.