Blockchain Short Story 014: Convergence

Numerous intermediaries sit between issuers/sellers and investors/buyers. Blockchain/DLT helps in disintermediating parts of the value chain, which brings issuers/sellers and investors/buyers closer to each other. The shortened value chain makes trading and settlement processes faster, and it reduces costs. That, on the other hand, opens new business opportunities, e.g. smaller trade sizes become profitable.

Moreover, the front-office (where the trade happens) and back-office (where the trade is settled) are converging up to the point that a trade, if wanted, can also be instantaneously settled.