Digital Asset promotes co-founder to CEO as it enters new era post-Blythe Masters
Digital Asset's new CEO will be faced to provide a new strategic direction to Digital Asset after Blythe Masters, the former CEO, left in December.
Digital Asset's new CEO will be faced to provide a new strategic direction to Digital Asset after Blythe Masters, the former CEO, left in December.
Digital Asset looks to steam ahead after Blythe Masters, the former CEO and a long-time face of blockchain innovation, stepped down at the end of last year.
After more than three and a half years, blockchain pioneer Blythe Masters to leave her role as CEO of Digital Asset.
Digital Asset to provide blockchain-based platform for completion of post-trade allocations and processing for northbound trades under Stock Connect.
Blythe Masters also outlines the importance of interoperability between blockchain systems as it is unlikely there will be "a single solution or one approach to DLT".
The DA platform processed more than four times the amount of trades per second than the latest DLT prototype developed by DTCC.
DTCC, Accenture, Digital Asset and R3 teamed up to build a US equity clearing and settlement system prototype.
ASX is now looking to launch its new post-trade blockchain system in March or April 2021, rather than the end of 2020 as initially planned.
James Powell has held various technology chief roles including at Thomson Reuters between 2007 and 2015.
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has been the first adopter of blockchain technology for its equity post-trade infrastructure. Will this move resonate with other clearing houses, and is this the time to embrace blockchain?