Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country’s three largest banks. It is the sort of […] This story continues at The Next Web

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