What is Circular Economy?
The current environmental crisis that we find ourselves in, is multidimensional – rising emissions, limited availability of resources, excess waste, and loss of biodiversity, are some of the common issues that every industry is facing today. There is a magic word which is conveniently used as a solution to many of these problems – Circular economy. This is a term given to a set of changes in supply chains of consumer and industrial products aimed at maximising the utilization of products and the materials used in those products to minimize waste. It can be implemented by reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering of materials in supply chains.
Blockchain in Insurance Industry – Gaining Momentum
The insurance industry is largely process-driven and many of these processes require a significant human intervention. These processes include selling, evaluating, analyzing, processing, and activating, policies; customer service and management; receiving, validating,...
Blockchain – Proxy Voting: Made for Each Other
Annual General Meetings are supposed to be an ornament of transparency that is associated with publicly listed companies. Important decisions that influence business and sustainability performance of the company are put to vote in front of all shareholders,...
Blockchain – Bond Markets: How blockchain can benefit market participants
Bond issuance and trading platforms built on blockchain can benefit several stakeholders in the bond market. The list of stakeholders includes enterprises, SMEs, investors, stock exchanges, regulators, treasuries, banks, insurance companies among others. Some of the...
Private Share Trading on Blockchain: Win-win for investors and Start-ups
Blockchain is now losing synonymity with bitcoin and is being acknowledged as an enterprise technology. At the same time, the stakeholders in the private equity trading and startup fundraising ecosystem are now looking beyond the hype of the ICOs to explore how this...
Food and beverage supply chains are keen to embrace the blockchain
After a sudden surge in blockchain adoption within food supply chain in the last quarter of 2017, the momentum seems to have continued in the first quarter of 2018. Here are some trends related to the enterprise blockchain adoption for projects related to food and beverage supply chains.
Can blockchain regulation keep up with innovation?
Innovation around the blockchain technology is on the rise, however, what’s not catching-up is the regulatory framework. Can blockchain regulation catch up?