Tagged: world economic forum

January 15, 2021 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s national standards organization, the British Standards Institute (BSI), had recently released the Security Token Specification, which is one of the industry’s very first cross-chain standards. The specification is referred to as “PAS 19668” and has been supported or sponsored by blockchain advisory… Read More

December 30, 2020 @ 7:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Di Dai from the World Economic Forum (WEF), a Switzerland-based international NGO that’s “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas,” confirms that the Coronavirus crisis has accelerated… Read More

December 17, 2020 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies, has published its inaugural report on digital assets entitled, Crypto, What Is It Good For? An Overview of Cryptocurrency Use Cases.  The report explains: “While much has been written about blockchain technology, there is little… Read More

December 5, 2020 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

  The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) released a report this week entitled The Global Covid-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment Study. The report seeks to better understand the development of Fintech during a time of a global pandemic. The research was supported by the… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), along with its partners the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, hosted a presentation this week outlining its findings in a study reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Fintech industry. The survey was launched… Read More

November 1, 2020 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Establishing proper standards is the key to ensuring that the blockchain sector moves forward, according to a recent blog post published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The blog post’s authors (Sumedha Deshmukh, Mercina Tillemann-Dick, Sofia Arend) note that standards for blockchain or distributed ledger tech… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain, Data, and Digital Assets at the World Economic Forum (WEF), an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business leaders of society to shape global agendas, says that she’s “quite bullish” about blockchain and… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kate MacDonald, New Zealand Government Fellow at the World Economic Forum, and Lofred Madzou, Project Lead, AI and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum have published a report that explains how AI can benefit everyone. According to MacDonald and Madzou, artificial intelligence can improve… Read More

July 25, 2020 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Economic Forum (WEF) Fintech Cybersecurity Consortium was established in 2018. It aims to help protect the global financial ecosystem, which now includes large organizations with “high levels of cybersecurity maturity” and fast-growing Fintech firms that are offering emerging technologies such as AI, Big… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 9:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Benedict Carandang and Lee-Anne Tobias from First Circle Growth Finance, a company that offers financing services to qualified SMEs in the Philippines that sell to other businesses or government agencies, note in a blog post published on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) official website that… Read More

July 14, 2020 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a highly influential global organization that engages with top political leaders, business executives and other prominent members of global society to demonstrate that combined with integrity and high standards of governance, entrepreneurship is in the global public interest. Among… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Deloitte claims that Fintech industry professionals no longer think that blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) is “groundbreaking and merely promising.” The professional services firm’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey polled around 1,500 senior management professionals and found that: “Initial doubts about… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 3:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

EquityZen, a secondary marketplace for private securities, has received a nice recognition from the World Economic Forum (WEF), according to a note from the firm. The WEF has selected EquityZen as a company in the list of the 100 of the most promising Technology Pioneers… Read More

June 15, 2020 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Joint study to provide timely data and actionable insights on how the pandemic has affected the Fintech industry globally The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School is partnering with the World Bank Group and the World Economic… Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been adopted by a large number of companies from several major industries. There are currently hundreds of different DLT platforms being operated across the globe. Most of these blockchain-enabled networks are unable to… Read More

January 25, 2020 @ 12:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has established what it says is the world’s first ever global consortium focused on creating a framework for the transnational governance of virtual currencies, which include stablecoins (digital currencies that are usually pegged to national fiat currencies). According to a… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam White, president at Bakkt, recently shared some details regarding a major development currently underway at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)-owned digital assets trading desk while attending a conference at Davos. White noted during a panel discussion held at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos,… Read More

October 29, 2019 @ 1:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Economic Forum (WEF), a Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland-based NGO that’s committed to improving the state of the world by engaging world leaders to shape global agendas, is working with seven major mining and metal companies on a project that uses blockchain tech to source materials… Read More

August 13, 2019 @ 10:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to jointly launch a research project addressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in financial services. CCAF is an academic research institute at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and is the… Read More

July 17, 2019 @ 1:47 am By JD Alois  |  

The World Economic Forum and the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, with the support of Accenture, has published a report on the value of blockchain. While there has been more than enough hype regarding distributed ledger technology (DLT) and there remains an ongoing debate as… Read More