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  • Bitcoin has its birthday on Halloween. Make of that what you will. The shadowy phantom (or cabal of phantoms) known as Satoshi Nakamoto published the bitcoin whitepaper 10 years ago.
  • Recent developments may help push the risk of cyber attacks onto the capital markets through catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS). But investors are likely to be wary about taking on too much exposure.
  • The cryptocurrency market has had to learn a lot of lessons about the realities of finance very quickly, but the marketplace is at last developing the utilities required to smooth the boundaries between cryptocurrency and traditional finance.
  • Michael ‘Woody’ Sherwood, former co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, has joined the board of Credit Benchmark, a financial technology company that uses the internal risk models of financial institutions to create a consensus ‘benchmark’ for risk.
  • Erste Group has arranged a Schuldschein via blockchain, through a platform it helped construct alongside Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric.
  • NatWest has become the first bank to integrate with a new blockchain-based platform that the UK lender says will “dramatically transform and streamline” the £3.5tr global syndicated loans market.