The announcements from eight insurers (one retail, several wholesale and reinsurers) using Z/YEN’s ChainZy mutual distributed ledger technology in earnest, and their large clinical trial clients, has heightened attention on building MDLs quickly and privately using proven technology and not depending on Bitcoin, Ethereum or Ripple payment systems.  Z/YEN are already doing over 50,000 clinical data trial […]

ISITC Europe has signed a MoU with OASIS Open based in North America but with offices worldwide . They specialise in creating open standards and lobbying for standards to ISO amongst others. The ISITC Europe Blockchain DLT Working Group has now merged with the OASIS Open Blockchain Technical Committee under a BlockBenchIT-draft-charter. The Charter is deliberately broad […]

Following the resignation of Dr Hermann Rapp for personal reasons, we have an open position on the ISITC Europe Leadership Group (IELG) for the Head of the ISITC Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) for immediate fulfilment. The IEAF is the most recent addition to the working groups for ISITC Europe and is reflects the leadership ISITC […]

ESMA Report – The Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets This report from ESMA is important reading for people interested in the DLT explosion of interest in financial markets. It’s an encapsulation of views taken from financial services firms trade associations and financial market experts that ISITC Europe contributed to last year. The ISITC Europe […]

Gary Wright, ISITC Europe’s Blockchain DLT leader has been invited to participate at ITU’s workshop on the 21st March in Geneva. He will be remotely participating in “Future directions on blockchain standardization activity” which will highlight diverse aspects and standardization efforts on blockchain in international standards bodies, identify potential items that ITU-T SG17 needs to analyse/review and […]

  ISITC Europe 25th Anniversary AGM & Conference – 26th January 2017 Conference Report by Nigel Solkhon, CEO ISITC Europe “Outstanding”, “Best conference I have been to for years”, “Fantastic well informed speakers” – just a few comments made to me by some of the near 100 attendees at the recent ISITC Europe held at […]

Robots, Regulation and T2S – Can they work together? Thank you to everyone who attended the General Meeting held on Thursday 25th May at Standard Chartered Bank. The meeting opened with a keynote speech from Keith Saxton, Independent Advisor, Innovate Finance Ambassador and Chairman techUK Financial Services Programme, on Fintech Trends – Accelerating Change followed by excellent panel discussions on Robotics, MiFID II […]

London, 28th July 2016 As we all head off for well-earned rest and relaxation breaks with family and loved ones, I wanted to provide an update to you of activities, plans and events to book into your calendars when you return. I also wanted to provide you all with an opportunity to contact me should […]

London, 1st July 2016 The ISITC Europe Blockchain working group has discussed how best to assist the financial services industry in the adoption of Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). At this juncture, with numerous service offerings emerging, the working group believes that the introduction of measurable standards based on both technology and operational requirements is […]

– Revamped trade body’s first general meeting of 2016 a roaring success, as financial industry convenes to discuss hot topics of the day – London, 13 May 2016: ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, has held its first General Meeting of 2016. The meeting – […]