According to a survey by State Street Corporation, 94% of the 101 asset managers and owners with $100 billion-plus portfolios said they either have digital assets under management or are planning to add them in 2020.
- It's all rainbows and alpacas for eToro CEO Yoni Assia at the Ethereal Summit in Tel Aviv, September 15, 2019 (photo by Molly Jane Zuckerman for Modern Consensus).
How blockchain will ‘eat’ finance: An interview with eToro CEO Yoni Assia
Modern Consensus sat down with Yoni Assia, the CEO and founder of social trading network eToro, at this weekend’s Ethereal Summit in Tel Aviv
Yoni Assia is quite confident that traditional finance will eventually fully transition over to blockchain—in his oft-repeated words, “it's going to eat their existing financial systems.” Having begun trading at just 13 years old, the eToro CEO brought the social trading platform into the crypto space in 2010, with a further step towards adoption in the launch of the eToroX crypto exchange earlier this year.
EU study: blockchain can help meet data privacy rules
While big hurdles remain, blockchains can likely be designed to meet and even support GDPR privacy requirements
A new report by the European Parliamentary Research Service takes issue with the idea that blockchains are incompatible with the EU’s new data privacy laws.
Report: With blockchain hype over, focus now on active blockchain businesses
Digital marketing agency Zage interviewed leaders of more than 100 businesses currently using blockchain technology in the real world
A seamless user experience is one of the keys to the widespread adoption of blockchain technology, according to a report released on August 19 by digital marketing agency Zage.