Barclays set to prototype blockchain apps in US?
Last week saw Singapore's SYBOS fin-tech conference kick-off with some 7,000 attendees arriving from around the world. SYBOS is generally accepted as being the world's largest financial services conference.  Blockchain-focussed topics are generating massive interest, with the keynote speech entitled "New kids on the Blockchain" seeing over 1,000 attendees cramming into a space designed for 200. Rumours from the conference centre on a possible announcement from Barclays that it will start testing various blockchain prototypes in New York shortly.

FIX Trading Community has formed a new working group based around digital currency and Blockchain technology initiatives. Many of the the non-profit organisation's members have internal groups focusing on this area. The aim of the group is to identify, analyse and define use cases and integration points for digital currency and distributed ledger technologies across the spectrum of capital markets requirements, and recommend best practices for FIX implementation and usage of this emerging technology in financial markets. Sean Ristau, head of wealth management & derivatives at Raptor Trading Systems, Ron Quaranta, CEO, Digital Currency Labs and Ryan Pierce, director and technology architect, engineering and execution at CME Group will chair it.



“As digital currency and Blockchain technology initiatives around the globe continue to grow, members are looking to the FIX Trading Community group for guidance. The formation of this working group is an important step in this process. I am thrilled to be part of this monumental technology expansion and looking forward to the collaborative efforts with my industry colleagues,” says Ristau.

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