Category Archives: blockchain

Distributed Ledger approach to STP

Settlement cycles have shortened from the 14 days that it took when horses and ships were part of the process to the current norm for many financial transactions of 3 days abbreviated as T+3. The push continues to drive that further down to T+2 and T+1. Straight-Trough-Processing (STP), aims at… Read more »

A more efficient crypto remittance model

On the previous post various challenges faced by a Bitcoin based remittance systems were evaluated. Namely volatility neutralization costs and transaction delays as side-effects of Bitcoin underlying consensus process. In this post we will take a look at Ripple, one of the permissioned ledger systems, as a possible workaround. For an explanation… Read more »