In this blog post we examine the “Digital Dispute Resolution Rules” — published by the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) [1]. These rules provide the foundations for automated dispute resolution mechanisms built into smart contracts. In particular, these rules are relevant for Okapi as our smart Financial Collateral Arrangement enables the…

In this blog post we explain why creation of the omnibus account by the Bank of England is an important step and how it is relevant to a wide array of use-cases. On 19/04/2021 the Bank of England released a statement on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Announcing the creation…

In this post we look at the consequences of the Archegos saga and ask ourselves: What happened? Why did it happen? What do we want to do about it? What happened? On Friday (26/03/2021) murmurs that a large fund was going pop started to surface. As many people have already…

In 2009 at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh the largest global economies took a long hard look at themselves and asked the question — ‘how do we stop that happening again?’. Of course, they were talking about the global financial crash and the failure of Lehman Brothers. Whilst the analysis…

In this short post we explain how blockchain technology can be used for more than simple value transfer between two counterparties. Indeed, we discuss how blockchain, and DLT, enables not just removal of the intermediaries in payments but also the third-parties responsible for calculations throughout the entire trade life-cycle. Where…