The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the financial services industry and the world of business has arrived. It’s not peer-to-peer lending, big data, Mobile banking robo-advisors, or Apple Pay or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. This technology represents nothing less than the second generation of the Internet, and it holds the potential to profoundly transform the financial services industry. 

 

Among other things all financial assets, from money, to securities, customer data, policies, contracts, deeds, intellectual property are becoming digitized.  The Internet of Information was in the public domain.  The Internet of Value is and will be owned by investors.  Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg.  This presents the biggest opportunity for investors, perhaps ever.  

 

The financial services industry needs a new transactional architecture a new ledger of accounts, a database, a notary, a sentry, and clearing house, all achieved through consensus mechanism. This holds the potential to make financial markets radically more efficient, secure, inclusive and transparent.  This is also good news for consumers who will have more choices, more privacy and better access, all at lower costs. But this could also represent a once in a generation opportunity for incumbents too, if they’re willing to embrace change. Government leaders and regulators need to understand this transformation as well too. 

 

You will learn:  

1. How the current view of “fintech” is limited and wrong.  

2. How blockchains work. What are the key emerging platforms?

3. How all assets are being digitized.

4. How key elements of the financial services are being disrupted by blockchain: payments, identity, loans, asset management, investing, markets, insurance.

5. What are the new opportunities for incumbents and also startups? 

6. How to think about investing in crypto.  How to determine future value. 

7. Management of the “dark side” issues like energy use.

8. What should governments do to better regulate the new emerging industry. 

9. The implications of all this for other industries – like supply chains, manufacturing, government. 

10. What is your personal role as a leader in this new world?

 

Note:  All attendees will receive free copies of proprietary reports that are normally only accessible by members of the Blockchain Research Institute .  These will include a new report form the BRI analyzing the top 20 crypto platforms – a valuable source for investors and enterprises alike.

Note 2: The first 100 registrants to my masterclass will each receive a free copy of Financial Services Revolution: How Blockchain Is Transforming Money, Markets, and Banking, by Alex Tapscott.

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Don Tapscott, co-author of the best-selling book on the topic (Blockchain Revolution) shares his views. He is Co-Founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, Chancellor Emeritus of Trent University in Canada and was recently ranked by Thinkers50 as the #2 most influential living business thinker. He has authored 16 widely read books about the digital age.