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Expanding the Practical Use of Blockchain Technology Within Insurance | Bitcoin Magazine
“As insurers increasingly rely on partnerships to create business efficiencies and improve customer experiences, blockchain technology will be critical to holding partners accountable without first needing to establish trust.”
Source: Expanding the Practical Use of Blockchain Technology Within Insurance | Bitcoin Magazine, Jimmy Aki, July 9, 2018
Read MoreWhat Blockchain Can’t Do
As the ecosystem around blockchain technology develops, new types of intermediaries will emerge that turn the last-mile problem, of keeping digital records in sync with their offline counterparts, into actual business opportunities. While the technology is early stage, as these key complements mature, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally reshape ownership over digital data, and the digital platforms we use every day.
Source: What Blockchain Can’t Do, Catherine Tucker & Christian Catalini, June 28, 2018
Read MoreDeloitte Blockchain Boss Departs To Build Ethereum Supply Chain
there are a number of entirely new business models that could be tapped by moving the supply chain to a shared, distributed, immutable ledger.For example, Coble described future supply chain products that flipped the current system on its head by letting parts suppliers publicly broadcast real-time details about unused goods that could be used in any number of products.Coble described her vision for this type of functionality in the future:It provides an environment, a marketplace, for trading partners across the supply chain to be in one place. It allows for this new buy and sell functionality that has never been put together.
Source: Deloitte Blockchain Boss Departs To Build Ethereum Supply Chain,
Read MoreBlockchain-Based Marine Insurance Is Live
Over the first year of its use in a commercial environment, the group expects Insurwave to execute over half a million automated blockchain transactions for more than 1,000 vessels. EY also plans to extend the application to other types of business insurance, including global logistics, aviation and energy.
Source: Blockchain-Based Marine Insurance Is Live, Sead Fadilpašić, May 25, 2018
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