The world faces natural disasters regularly each year—from wildfires raging in Australia's and California's forests to a glacier in India causing mass flooding
As DeFi projects pick up steam, and Mark Cuban names DeFi as an industry with the potential to explode, the monthly volume of decentralized exchanges has skyrocketed from just $39.5 million in January 2019, to $45.2 billion in January 2021
Third-party intermediaries and credit agencies have been around ever since John Moody published the first publicly available railroad bond ratings in 1909. But times are changing.
In a session on the Evolving Marketplace Landscape at Nasdaq’s Technology of the Future conference, Ulf Ahlenius, Head of Marketplace Products, outlined six key product investment areas his team is focusing on to help take marketplaces to the next level.
Recent advances in blockchain technology, combined with increased demand for insurance products across the world, has set the stage for the rise of parametric insurance, or insurance that automatically pays out when certain events occur.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long standing inequities in healthcare. Underserved populations have suffered the highest incidence and death rates, while also experiencing the worst of the financial hardship.
Throughout history, borrowers and lenders have created incentives through collateral, ranging from kings’ crowns in Medieval Europe to wheels of cheese in present day Italy.
The urgency with which the blockchain ecosystem must act to ensure the development of comprehensive privacy and confidentiality solutions cannot be overstated
Healthcare is plagued by inefficiencies and cost overruns but blockchain technology holds the solution, and could lead to a better patient experience in the process