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New Games for a New Century - Part 1

Tim Grant and Professor Gordon Hewitt — 17 February 2021
Introducing Digital Market Infrastructure and The New 21st Century Mindset – An Evolving World View of Competition and Value

The powerful roots of financial market infrastructure (FMI), the traditionally important exchanges, clearing, settlement, central securities depositories (CSD), and payment systems that support the world’s monetary and financial markets participants, were embedded back in the 1960s and ‘70s. Today, this foundation raises a number of questions. Do we, for example, believe that the next evolution of FMI propelling global capital markets into the 21st century will be architected in the same way?

The pace, intensity, and complexity of competitive change has left traditional firms in global industries playing “competitive catch up”. This was not the future that we wanted for…

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Benjamin Nadareski — 04. February 2021

Our DLT predictions for 2021

The confluence of evolving digital asset market fundamentals, a highly competitive landscape and accelerated innovation continues to establish DLT-based applications not as a promise of revolutionized business, but a reality here in 2021. Within SDX’s rapidly evolving global ecosystem, our corporate development team is uniquely positioned to see the breadth of these developments first hand, working with our word-class clients and partners in solidifying DLT-business as a commercial reality in 2021. My predictions below are a first-hand example of some of the major breakthroughs we expect to materialize in 2021.

Tim Grant — 28. January 2021

SIX Digital Exchange publishes first report on settling tokenized assets in central bank money

SIX Digital Exchange, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub (BISIH) Swiss Centre, and have published the Helvetia report, a two proofs-of-concepts experiment using “near-live” systems to settle digital assets on a distributed ledger with central bank money.

Tim Grant — 28. January 2021

The Roaring Twenties: Digital Assets, Escaping the Dominant Logic of the 20th Century and Entering a 21st Century Mindset

I remember saying at the end of 2019 that I was excited to be entering into the roaring twenties. And that I could see a world of promise and significant advances during the coming decade that has the opportunity to positively impact the way we do things for decades to come.

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