Events & Articles
Painting Title: ‘Fire’
The Fintech Focus Podcast - Powered by Harrington Starr
In the latest of Nadia's Women of Fintech series, Nadia is joined over Zoom by Ruth Wandhofer, one of the most influential female figures in the industry today and Partner at Gauss Ventures.
How Covid-19 is helping to democratise investing
Covid-19 has provided opportunities for financial technology to open up investing to a wider range of investors, a panel of experts have suggested.
Proof-of-work blockchains and settlement finality: a functional interpretation
One of the claims of Bitcoin (Nakamoto, 2008) is that settlement takes place without a central authority. The authors, Ruth Wandhöfer and Ron Berndsen, investigate this claim by comparing Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus algorithm to the legal concept of settlement finality used in financial market infrastructures worldwide.
The Future of Correspondent Banking Cross-border Payments
This paper explores whether and how technological innovation, in conjunction with policy measures, can improve the process of correspondent banking cross-border payments.