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This article focuses on how Big Data databases can be a lot more effective if it is used properly. I wounder if big businesses should try to use this method or if it is to big of a risk with potential data loss.

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Advantages and challenges abound for investment professionals focusing on big data , large data sets analyzed computationally, and alternative data , data sets obtained from less traditional sources, such as social media, for investment analysis. At the fifth annual conference, a panel of data scientists and quantitative professionals gave recommendations to investment professionals looking for ways to capitalize on big and alternative data analysis. "In a day of data explosion, it's imperative for all companies to have a thoroughly examined data strategy, and the right methodologies need to be applied to the right data sets," said Larisa Mathur, Founder of VNR Partners, a fintech company. Otherwise, "big data can be a drain on resources, if not used properly." TradeTech FX

Discerning the valuable information from noise is a monumental task. Taking time to focus on what golden nuggets can be found in big data is extremely important. Sash Sarangi, Senior Researcher in the Fixed Income Group of Invesco, observed that "Not all news are created equally. People look at sentiment for western markets but how does this work for emerging markets?" It is important for investors to spend time researching the sentiment drivers that are important for different markets. "Look at your hypothesis and test it" said Sarangi, who helps develop factor products in rates, foreign exchange, and credit. "Intelligently mining the data is critical or you will be lost."

However, analyzing data can be endless. 'Analysis can lead to paralysis' cautioned Sarangi. According to Mathur "Companies that figure out a balance have a competitive advantage over competitors in terms of efficiency and speed to market for their strategies." Superior data sets and methods of extracting information from data can give investors significant advantages in investing. According to Christina Qi, Partner at Domeyard LP, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based hedge fund, "A data set or method of data extraction can be superior in many ways - often something "cleaner" makes a huge difference by significantly reducing the time-to-market for our trading strategies." Qi further stated that "Like most other firms of our type, we have to spend most of our researchers' time on data cleaning and preprocessing, and payroll and infrastructure contribute to the bulk of our operating expenses. We think there's a lot of more room to improve productivity and reduce the time spent in this dimension as compared to improving your signals."

The panelists also spoke about alternative data, which is used to obtain insight into investment processes and strategies. This is a growing market in terms of users and spending dedicated to it. How company management will dedicate human, technological and financial resources to alternative data will have significant implications for investors for years to come. According to Greenwich Associates in their 2018 Future of Investment Research Study, 50% of institutional investors are planning to increase their use of alternative datasets in the near future.

Buyside firms such as hedge funds, insurance companies, investment management within bank holding companies, mutual funds, and private equity funds are increasingly spending more money on alternative data. Qi and her colleagues have observed alternative forms of data that the buy side is using now to build out their portfolios and come up with new trade ideas. "Examples we've seen used in practice: Voice brokering transcripts, SEC filings, machine-readable announcements, credit card spending data, terminal clicks and article popularity scores, counts of missed IOC orders that don't show up on typical market data feeds."

Sarangi said that he is always looking for alternative price related data. I "go beyond typical macro data. I go to Twitter, Facebook, bank custody flow data, and agreements data." Qi explained that "alternative data is expensive. Failure is often due to spending too much money and time on the wrong data." Hence cleaning data is very important, yet this can be very time intensive. "Once it is clean, then you can apply the data to a high frequency strategy," explained Qi.

A significant challenge in using alternative data, warned the three panelists, is backtesting the data, that is, having a mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of a trading strategy by running the strategy against historical data. Sarangi explained that it is very difficult to conduct backtesting on alternative data. "We do not have good historical data to do backtesting." In describing what her firm does, Mathur candidly said "We do not have answers to how to do backtesting on alternative data. No alternate data set is the same. AI [artificial intelligence] will help humans a lot to process data, but we have to create good context for machine learning." Qi also explained that she does not run backtests on alternative data, because "Backtests can cause a look back bias."

Part of understanding uses of big data and alternative data in particular is how to integrate them with artificial intelligence. When I asked Mathur if a data-driven, scientifically based and technologically aware research culture can produce sustainable alpha, her answer unequivocally was that at her firm "We believe that yes, it can, although we are currently only focused on supervised learning artificial intelligence." For her a big factor to keep in mind as it relates to artificial intelligence is that there can be unintended consequences. "Our approach is conservative, and we keep all decisions in the hands of humans. We use AI for efficiency." Qi responded that for her small firm, "a data-driven approach is also about improving our productivity. We don't have a team of analysts to research every stock ticker or sector, and have a high business risk if our strategies depend significantly on a handful of stellar researchers or portfolio managers. Our approach shifts the value-add from the individuals to the algorithms and software that extracts signals, optimize models, and supports the research process and trading."

Mayra Rodríguez Valladares is managing principal of MRV Associates, which provides consulting, research and training services on capital markets and financial regulation. @MRVAssociates.

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Advantages and challenges abound for investment professionals focusing on big data , large data sets analyzed computationally, and alternative data , data sets obtained from less traditional sources, such as social media, for investment analysis. At the fifth annual conference, a panel of data scientists and quantitative professionals gave recommendations to investment professionals looking for ways to capitalize on big and alternative data analysis.

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this article talks about how if the boss is in a bad mood it will set the mood for the rest of the workers. Should everyone take mental health classes to control their mood and be more effective in the workplace?

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Your summer cold isn't the only thing you can spread to your co-workers. Your emotions can also be contagious. That means the bad mood you're in not only affects your work performance, but it can also influence your team.

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The decision to start your own business isn't one to be taken lightly, but once you get over that hurdle, you might face another challenge: finding the right person to partner up with.

There are several benefits to having a business partner. First, you'll have something to share the load with, thereby preventing a scenario where you're working all the time and having no personal life to show for. Having a partner can also make your business more successful, since you'll have added expertise to tap.

That said, choosing the ideal business partner is easier said than done. Here's how to land on the right person for your venture.
1. Find someone whose skills differ from yours
When seeking out a business partner, your first inclination might be to find someone whose background and education match yours. But if you go that route, you may not gain all that much in the end. Instead, it pays to find a partner whose skills actually don't mirror yours entirely. For example, if you have a business background, it might pay to find someone who worked in a more creative field. This way, your skills can complement one another's to increase your business's chances of being successful.
2. Find someone who's good at making decisions
The last thing you want to do is partner up with someone who doesn't have the guts or ability to pull the trigger when big decisions need to be made. Granted, you should both be prepared to consult with one another on high-stakes items, but you should also seek out someone who's able to commit to decisions rather than waste your time being wishy-washy.
3. Find someone reliable
If you can't count on your business partner, he or she will end up being of limited value to you. You might find a potential partner with incredible financial modeling skills, or an eye for marketing like you've never seen, but if that person can't be counted on to show up on time, stick to deadlines, or do the things he or she pledges to do, then you won't be doing yourself any favors by joining forces. Instead, make sure your partner is someone you can truly depend on, both in the regular course of business or in a crisis.
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Running a business is hard work, and it can certainly get stressful at times. That's why it's critical to find a partner you'll actually enjoy working with -- someone with a sense of humor and a positive outlook who will make even the most challenging situations not so bad. As you surely know, managing a business requires a major time commitment, so finding someone who can help make that work more pleasant is a definite must.

The right business partner could make a huge difference in your venture's success, as well as your personal satisfaction and happiness. Keep the above tips in mind when looking for a business partner, and with any luck, you'll land on just the right person for the job.
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This article exposes how buying a new car can be a very unwise thing to do financially. Over the course of the first year of having a brand new car it can depreciate 25%. Should i buy a brand new car if it is going to depreciate rapidly?

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Debating whether to buy that new Jaguar, Maserati or Porsche?

If you don't plan on keeping it for a while, you might want to consider the rates at which the value of those more expensive cars will decline.

In fact, cars can lose as much as 10 percent of their value within just the first month after you take it from the lot, according to Carfax.

It is worth noting, however, that luxury branded cars can hold their value better than other models.

Assuming a $100,000 car is brand new, GOBankingRates calculated how much the vehicle will depreciate over the course of 30 years.

Here's a look at the results:

Year 1

In the first year, your car will lose 25 percent of its value, depreciating $25,000. That brings its value down to $75,000.

Year 2

The second year owning the vehicle, it will be worth $66,000, after depreciating another 9 percent from its original value.

Year 3

Once you have owned the car for three years, it will lose a total of $41,920 in value, bringing its worth to $58,080. Depreciation in the third year would be about 7.9 percent.

Year 4

The car will depreciate 8 percent against its original value in its fourth year to $49,949. That year alone about $8,130 will be shaved off the vehicle's value.

Year 5

In year five, the car will depreciate another 7.5 percent against its original value, bringing its worth down to $42,456.

Year 10

Worth: $20,672

Year 15

Worth: $12,207

Year 20

Worth: $7,208

Year 25

Worth: $4,256

Year 30

Worth: $2,513
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After 30 years, the car will have lost about 97.5 percent of its value.

In order to help your vehicle hold its value, Carfax says it helps to keep miles around 10,000 per year to prevent excessive wear and tear. Regular maintenance is also important.

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The Avengers endgame movie has broke movie records by making over $1.2 billion on their opening day. should they continue t make avenger movies? How?

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The Avengers assembled the biggest box office in film history, far surpassing multiple records on the books.

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This article focuses on how bitcoin can be mined through your computer by solving encrypted codes. Should more people start mining these coins?

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Cryptocurrency mining will celebrate its 10th year of existence in 2019. It's certainly no fad, but it's also far from being a popular practice. The very concept of mining with high-end computer hardware is starting to trickle into mainstream consciousness, though. If anything, the evidence is in the scarcity of Nvidia and AMD graphics cards and the inflated pricing that has washed through retailers worldwide. The pricing has caught the attention of PC gamers, leaving them puzzled and asking why it's happening.

What you may not know is the technology surrounding mining isn't just limited to consumer graphics cards. We're beginning to see PC game platforms that allow you to mine when you're away from your system, and exchange that digital currency for new games. There are even new Pokemon GO-style games hitting the app stores that are outdoor scavenger hunts with cryptocurrency as the ultimate treasure.

With that in mind, it seemed like the perfect time to start explaining this craze (I'm going to call it that because it shows no signs of disappearing) to gamers and hardware junkies considering riding the wave. It's admittedly going to be a challenge! As John Oliver recently exclaimed during HBO's "Last Week Tonight," cryptocurrency is: "everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers!"

So I hope you'll stick around for each new guide and explainer. Don't hesitate to reach out via the social media links at the bottom of this article with questions or suggestions.

Should you decide to grab the knowledge and journey down the rabbit hole, I'll be publishing guides for a variety of things like:

What's a mining pool and how do you choose the best one?

What is NiceHash, and should you use it?

Wallets vs Exchanges: How to safely store your cryptocurrency

The risks of mining: profitability, power costs and GPU lifespans

How to setup Awesome Miner + MiningPoolHub to mine the most profitable coins

Mining with your graphics card versus your CPU

Algorithms and coins: Choosing the best match for your hardware

Using a stripped-down version of Linux called HiveOS for a dedicated mining rig

TBD: Your suggestions here!

WHAT IS MINING, ANYWAY?
Bitcoin is making headlines in mainstream media on a daily basis, and deservedly so. It's the grandaddy of all cryptocurrency and, with few exceptions, tends to dictate the profitability of all other alt coins beneath it. On a value-per-coin level, it's worth far more than any other digital currency in existence -- and there are more than 1000 of them. Stuff like Litecoin, Dogecoin, Electroneum, Ravencoin, Ethereum, and GRAFT.

I won't delve too deeply into the history of Bitcoin or its hordes of both unique and flash-in-the-pan spinoffs, but I do want to point out that you can't actually mine Bitcoin with regular computers anymore. It requires specialized and expensive hardware called ASICs. However, you can mine other coins and convert them to Bitcoin through a variety of exchanges and services. You can also earn Bitcoin by "lending" your computer's processing power to services like NiceHash which pay out in Bitcoin. But that's another rabbit hole for another time!

What is mining though? It's somewhat misunderstood as the process of "finding coins" but it's more complex than that.
Understanding The Blockchain
Each of the hundreds of crypto coins in existence rely on the core concept of the blockchain. Cryptocurrency was designed to be decentralized, secure and unalterable. So every single transaction is encrypted. Once that encrypted transaction happens it's added to something called a "block" until a fixed number of transactions has been recorded. That block then gets added to a chain -- the blockchain -- which is publicly available.

These transactions leave no trace of who is behind them, however, because privacy is also a pillar of cryptocurrency. The location of the transactions isn't centralized, either, so that it can't be manipulated or controlled by one person or entity.

Since these blocks are heavily encrypted, they're sort of like complicated math puzzles that only powerful compute-capable hardware can solve. Enter your CPU, or your Radeon and GeForce graphics cards. The process of solving the math puzzles on these blocks and adding them to the public blockchain (think of it as a ledger) is roughy what mining is.

Miners verify the transactions, ensure they aren't false, and keep the infrastructure humming along.

The reward for doing so -- a miner's fee if you will -- is payment in that block's coin. The payment is based on how much their hardware contributed to solving that puzzle. Where do the coins come from? By design, that's exactly how the coins are created. The block is solved and coins and distributed fairly to miners. This increases the coin's supply.
The Best Analogy: Google Docs
In 2016 William Mougayar wrote a brilliant piece explaining blockchain technology by leveraging something we all know about: word processing programs. He reminds us that when Microsoft Word was the only game in town, one person had to create a file, open it, then send it to another person to have it edited or updated. The similarity to banks is striking, and makes it clear why blockchain technology was created in the first place:

That's how databases work today. Two owners can't update the same record at once. That's how banks maintain money balances and transfers; they briefly lock access (or decrease the balance) while they make a transfer, then update the other side, then re-open access (or update again).

With Google Docs (or Google Sheets), both parties have access to the same document at the same time, and the single version of that document is always visible to both of them. It is like a shared ledger, but it is a shared document. The distributed part comes into play when sharing involves a number of people.

Imagine the number of legal documents that should be used that way. ~ William Mougayar, Coindesk.com

The cool thing is that blockchain technology can be used for much more than financial transactions. It was designed to not have a single point of failure, and to be fully transparent. That's why you see it rapidly emerging in the gaming space, too. It can be utilized for secure cloud storage distributed across thousands of computers. Physical objects could conceivably be given unique digital ownership or identities. Anything of value can be integrated with blockchain technology. The possibilities at this point are endless and reliant on the imaginations of developers.
The Basics of Cryptocurrency Mining
We'll dive deeper into this in the future, but the elements that go into mining on your computer involve specialized or consumer hardware and a combination of your graphics cards and CPU. The most efficient mining apps still seem to be command-line based, but there are some elegant ones with traditional graphics interfaces. In your journey you may stumble across names like ccminer, Claymore or XMR-Stak.

You'll download the software you need to mine a specific coin and edit an executable text file with details like the mining pool's URL to connect to, your wallet address and the name of your "worker" or PC. More advanced options allow you to adjust how hard your GPU or CPU works. The vast majority of this software works across Windows and Linux, although it's more difficult to configure on non-Windows systems. What makes it more challenging is that these variables are formatted differently depending on the pools and the software.

Once the blocks I mentioned above are solved and coins are generated, the pool automatically pays the miners directly to their wallet, or to an online cryptocurrency exchange that holds many different types of coins.

I understand that this is simplifying things to the extreme, but that's why an entire series of guides is needed! It's a complex landscape to understand, but the core is simple: miners are people independently verifying transactions on the coin's network, and when that happens more coins are created. Miners effectively keep the network running and increase the coin's global supply.

Some mine to engage in a unique kind of hobby, or for sheer profit. Others do it because they believe in the principles behind a certain coin and in what the developers intend to do with it. The reasons you have are yours, but I'll try to guide you through it.

Stick around, it's going to get busy. 'Till next time!

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This article focuses on the rise of blockchains and how they are changing currency into crypto-currency through the rise of bitcoin. Should more people start investing into these blockchains.

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Cryptocurrencies may be in the depths of winter, but it's early spring for new business applications using the technology underlying bitcoin. Take the case of financial record keeping behemoth Depository Trust & Clearing Corp, otherwise known as "DTCC." It's responsible for keeping the books on 90 million transactions a day, representing most of the world's $48 trillion in securities -from stocks and bonds to mutual funds and derivatives.

Decades ago it was all done on paper and now, though electronic, it continues to be burdened by a myriad of duplicate procedures and reconciliations among thousands of its members. In a few months DTCC will quietly begin the largest live implementation of blockchain, the distributed database technology made popular by the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Records for about 50,000 accounts in DTCC's Trade Information Warehouse, where information on $10 trillion worth of credit derivatives is stored, will move to a customized digital ledger called AxCore. Soon all will have access to a single real-time account of trades, eliminating layers of databases.

Walmart is using blockchain technology to track shipments from its suppliers and reduce the risks of food spoilage and contamination. It has already filed 50 blockchain-related patents. Hard drive maker Seagate is using the tech to catch and prevent counterfeiters and Metlife can now pay claims instantly to its expectant mothers who test positive for gestational diabetes.

Why Blockchain?

Rather than be disrupted by ICO-funded upstarts, global corporations are embracing the technology underlying cryptocurrencies like bitcoin because they want to speed up business processes, increase transparency and potentially save billions of dollars.

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According to International Data Corp, total corporate and government spending on blockchain should hit $2.9 billion in 2019, an increase of 89% over the previous year, and reach $12.4 billion by 2022. When PwC surveyed 600 execs last year, 84% said their companies are involved with blockchain.

Introducing Forbes Blockchain 50

With assistance from industry consultants and other experts, Forbes' team of reporters and editors identified more than 100 big companies actively exploring blockchain through industry consortiums and other proprietary projects. Our new list features 50-with minimum revenues or valuations of $1 billion, and U.S. operations- that are currently leading the way in adapting decentralized ledgers to their operating needs.

From eliminating paperwork, to monitoring hamburger patties and speeding up insurance payments, the anti-establishment software is being welcomed in the executive suite.

Co-opting Blockchain For The Boardroom

Ironically, the version of a blockchain future these companies are building is, for the most part, far different from what the founders and early adopters of blockchain had envisioned. While many cryptocurrency idealists fantasize about a global, public network of individuals connected directly and democratically, without middlemen, these companies-many of which are middlemen themselves like DTCC-are building private networks they will use to profit from centralized management.

The list below is in alphabetical order and identifies the distributed-ledger platform each company is using.

Allianz SE

Germany

The insurance giant has been testing blockchain for a variety of products. For example, a joint venture that sells flight-delay insurance has used a smart contract that initiates a claim as soon as a flight is delayed by a set period of time. The customer gets a notification on his smartphone, enters his bank account details and payment is made. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Corda

Key leader: Robert Crozier, head of Allianz's Global Blockchain Centre of Competence

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Amazon

Seattle

Amazon Web Services offers blockchain tools to help companies that want to use distributed ledger technology but don't want to develop it themselves. It's a clever way to maintain its dominance in cloud computing, Amazon's most profitable business line, with a 2018 operating profit of $7.3 billion. Cloud clients using its tools include Change Healthcare, which helps manage payments among hospitals, insurers and patients; Guardian Life Insurance; HR software provider Workday; and securities clearinghouse DTCC. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum (later in 2019)

Key leader: Rahul Pathak, general manager of Amazon Managed Blockchain at AWS

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Anheuser-Busch InBev

Leuven, Belgium

The brewing giant is involved in a pilot program in the San Francisco Bay Area where consumers upload their driver's license information to a blockchain and can then buy beer at a vending machine simply by scanning their phone. In Africa, the world's fastest-growing beer market, AB InBev has a partnership with BanQu that uses blockchain to provide pricing info and payments to farmers lacking bank accounts. That could make it possible for the company to work faster, and with more farmers, to ramp up its African operations. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Ethereum, Corda

Key leader: Tassilo Festetics, VP of global solutions

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Ant Financial, Hangzhou

China

Fintech power Ant Financial has developed a proprietary blockchain that is used, among other things, to keep tabs on the products sold on a marketplace run by Alibaba, a part owner of Ant. For example, customers can trace a diamond's sourcing back to a trading center in Antwerp and see grading, cutting and polishing records. Separately, in June 2018, Ant's payment app, Alipay (with a billion-plus users worldwide), launched a blockchain-based service offering money transfers directly between people in Hong Kong and the Philippines that can be completed in just seconds. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Ant Blockchain

Key leader: Geoff Jiang, VP of Ant Financial

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BBVA

Bilbao, Spain

Last November, Spain's second-largest bank announced its first blockchain-based syndicated loan, a $170 million deal for Red Eléctrica Corporación, Spain's electrical grid operator. With nearly $5 trillion in loans being syndicated worldwide each year, the transparency, security and efficiency of blockchain could make a big difference. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, public Ethereum

Key leader: Carlos Kuchkovsky, CTO, new digital business

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Bitfury

Amsterdam

While $500 million (revenues) Bitfury is still best known for selling hardware for bitcoin mining, it is now also building blockchain services for enterprise customers. In 2017, it launched the Exonum blockchain, designed specifically to make it easier for enterprises to use the bitcoin blockchain. One early customer, the Republic of Georgia, is using Exonum to record and transfer land ownership. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Exonum, Bitcoin

Key leadership: Valery Vavilov, CEO and cofounder

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BNP Paribas

Paris

When Rio Tinto sells iron ore to Cargill, the food giant doesn't pay right away; instead it presents a bank's letter of credit. BNP Paribas is trying to move letters of credit from paper to a secure distributed ledger. In November 2018 Paribas worked with HSBC Singapore to complete the first fully digitized letter-of-credit transaction. Commodities finance dates back to 4,000 B.C. Sumer, and old-line banks like France's BNP Paribas dominate. Maintaining a digital edge in this business is a matter of survival. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum

Key leader: Jacques Levet, head of transaction banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa

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BP PLC

London

Like BNP Paribas, BP is investing in blockchain technology to improve the efficiency of commodities trade finance. It's a founding member of Vakt, a blockchain platform that aims to digitize parts of energy trading that remain slow, such as contracts and invoicing. So far, BP has invested more than $20 million in blockchain projects. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Ethereum, Cardano, Quorum

Key leader: Julian Gray, technology director, Digital Innovation Organization

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Broadridge

New York City

This little-known ADP spinoff controls 80% of the U.S. proxy-voting and shareholder-communications business. Broadridge has a team working to move its core proxy-voting services to a distributed ledger, allowing stockholders to cast their own votes on corporate resolutions and directors in real time-without going through the custodial banks that hold the shares. Broadridge is an investor, alongside banks such as BNP and Citi, in Digital Asset Holdings, which played a key role in the development of private blockchain ledgers. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, DAML, Quorum

Key leader: Michael Tae, head of strategy

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Bumble Bee Foods

San Diego

Thanks to help from developers at SAP, Bumble Bee is using a blockchain to provide complete transparency to its tuna supply chain all the way from the pole-and-line-catch fishermen sailing the South Pacific to grocery stores in the United States. Given current concerns about food safety and sustainability, instilling confidence in its albacore product is paramount. Moreover, the entire tuna industry has been targeted by environmental activists for killing dolphins. The company that can demonstrate provenance of its catch could demand a premium price. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Multichain

Key leader: Tony Costa, CIO

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Cargill

Wayzata, Minnesota

The agricultural giant that popularized high-fructose corn syrup began testing Intel's Hyperledger Sawtooth before Thanksgiving 2017 to track turkeys through its supply chain as they made their way from farm to supermarket. Cargill has committed a team of engineers to work with Intel and enterprise blockchain startup Bitwise to help build Hyperledger Grid, which will track food back to its source-a crucial step in this day of food-contamination scares. By getting in on the ground floor with this Grid, Cargill could be in a position to sell its expertise to other suppliers. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Sawtooth, Hyperledger Grid

Key leader: Keith Narr, VP, Cargill Digital Labs

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Ciox Health

Alpharetta, Ga

As the biggest manager of medical records in the U.S. (its software is used to securely transfer records between healthcare providers), Ciox figures the blockchain could cut paperwork redundancies, reduce medical mistakes and provide it a new source of subscription income. It has established a team to evaluate which blockchain platform to build on. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Ethereum

Key leader: Florian Quarre, chief digital officer

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Citigroup

New York City

The bank has invested in a half-dozen startups (Digital Asset Holdings, Axoni, SETL, Cobalt DL, R3 and Symbiont) developing blockchains and distributed ledgers for applications such as securities settlement, credit derivative swaps and insurance payments. Last year, Citi partnered with Barclays and software infrastructure provider CLS to launch LedgerConnect, an app store where companies can shop for blockchain tools. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Ethereum

Key leader: Puneet Singhvi, managing director

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Coinbase

San Francisco

With more than 20 million users and a valuation of $8 billion, Coinbase is the dominant U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. It offers custody, wallet services and both retail and institutional trading platforms. The blue chip among crypto-first financial firms is poised to become even more dominant when institutional usage of blockchain grows. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Lumen

Key leader: Brian Armstrong, CEO; his Coinbase holdings make him a billionaire

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Comcast

Philadelphia

Comcast owns MState, a venture capital firm that has invested in at least seven enterprise blockchain startups, including Blockdaemon, which builds software to help enterprises build applications that use Bitcoin and Ethereum and comply with current regulations (for example, from the SEC or protecting healthcare privacy). Last December, Comcast partnered with competitors Viacom and Spectrum Reach to launch Blockgraph, which aims to allow advertisers to precisely target ads to viewers, without disclosing viewers' personal information to those advertisers. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, Quorum

Key leader: Gil Beyda, managing director, Comcast Ventures

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CVS Health

Woonsocket, RI

New CVS subsidiary Aetna is a member of IBM's Health Utility Network, a group (including Cigna and Anthem) working to create a distributed ledger of information available to patients, providers and insurers. As its first project, the network plans to publish tamperproof, unforgeable medical credentials so patients can check out their doctors. Other projects being considered would combine data from different insurers to make it easier to share information between doctors and insurers and prevent prescriptions that conflict, with the aim of improving care while cutting costs. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: IBM Blockchain, Hyperledger Indy, Hyperledger Sawtooth

Key leader: Claus Torp Jensen, CTO of both CVS and Aetna

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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Jersey City

A warehouse of sorts that provides custody, clearing and settlement for $1.85 quadrillion in transactions per year, DTCC is planning to move its $10 trillion-a-year credits derivatives tracking operation to a customized blockchain. If the new system, scheduled to launch by the end of the year, is successful, it could eliminate massive record redundancies and prove that centralized middlemen have a place in a decentralized ledger world. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Axcore

Key leader: Rob Palatnick, chief technology architect

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Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

In January 2018, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed in his annual statement that the social media giant was studying cryptocurrency's potential. In May of that year he moved former PayPal president and Coinbase board member David Marcus from his position as vice president of messaging to head up a secretive team exploring blockchain and its applications. This past February, Zuckerberg told Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain he was interested in letting users log in to websites with blockchain-based identities instead of Facebook Connect-a change that could have big implications for the way Facebook monetizes its users' info. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Unknown

Key leader: David Marcus, blockchain lead

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Fidelity

Boston

The 73-year-old fund giant began mining bitcoin in 2015 as a way to learn about digital assets. This year, it launched a custody service for institutional investors who want to store bitcoin securely. It's also building a trading platform that allows a large block of crypto to be purchased by executing orders across multiple exchanges. About 100 Fidelity employees are now devoted to digital assets. Having originally missed the ETF explosion, Fidelity will be at the forefront if crypto-assets go mainstream. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum

Key leader: Tom Jessop, president, Fidelity Digital Assets

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Foxconn

Taipei, Taiwan

The giant Chinese manufacturer has pilot projects under way that use blockchain to streamline supply chain transactions and provide working capital to suppliers. Separately, it is developing a blockchain-enabled smartphone that would make it easier for consumers to spend digital coins. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Ethereum

Key leader: Jack Lee, founding managing partner of venture arm HCM Capital

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Golden State Foods

Irvine, CA

This restaurant supplier is participating in IBM's Food Trust, a consortium of companies aiming to track food along the entire supply chain. In one early application, Golden State is giving all the companies involved in its burger business-from meat processors to shippers to restaurants-access to streaming data about the temperature at which the beef is kept. In addition to improving food safety, such projects could reduce both paperwork and food spoilage, which is estimated to cost $7 billion annually in North America alone, before it reaches the consumer. Full profile

Blockchain platform: IBM Blockchain

Key Executives: Bob Wolpert, chief strategy and innovation officer

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Google

Mountain View, CA

The search giant has made numerous investments in blockchain, including Veem, a payments startup that lets enterprises instantly send and receive payments in different currencies, using bitcoin as an intermediary holding. Meanwhile, it has created a suite of tools that make it easier to search (and analyze) cryptocurrency transactions-in other words, to Google public blockchains. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Zcash, Dogecoin, Dash

Key leader: Allen Day, science advocate

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HPE

San Jose, CA

The $31 billion (revenue) enterprise tech spin-off from Hewlett-Packard hopes to make a splash with its blockchain services. It already counts more than a dozen customers, including car-part manufacturer Continental, which will use HPE's tech to track a vehicle's location and a driver's license and insurance. That could be useful as more Americans move from owning a car to renting one by the hour or month. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Corda, Ethereum, Quorum, Sia, Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: Raphael Davison, worldwide director of blockchain

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HTC

Taoyuan, Taiwan

The company recently released Exodus 1,

a new smartphone that provides crypto-owners a safer way (built in to the phone's hardware) to store and recover lost bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum, as well as the ability to easily trade cryptocurrencies. The phone also has a special Web browser designed for sites built on the blockchain. With its dismal smartphone market share, HTC's new phone may be a Hail Mary pass. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum

Key leader: Phil Chen, decentralized chief officer

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IBM

Armonk, NY

Blockchain's early advocate is working to commercialize the technology through its enterprise-grade version of Hyperledger Fabric, called IBM Blockchain. Other IBM launches include World Wire, a foreign exchange platform seeking to replace interbank messaging platform Swift, and TradeLens, a shipping supply chain service codeveloped with shipping giant Maersk. IBM has already filed for more than 100 blockchain patents. With its proprietary blockchain connecting companies in at least 85 networks, IBM is a clear enterprise winner. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: IBM Blockchain, Stellar, Hyperledger Burrow, Sovrin

Key leader: Bridget van Kralingen, SVP, global industry platforms and blockchain

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ING

Amsterdam

The Dutch banking giant has launched eight pilots since the creation of its dedicated blockchain team in 2016. In January 2018, ING and Credit Suisse executed the first legally enforceable euro securities swap using R3's blockchain. The bank has also invested in several blockchain ventures, including Komgo, which plans to use the Ethereum blockchain to streamline a wide range of transactions. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Corda, Quorum, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Indy

Key leader: Mariana Gomez de la Villa, program director of distributed ledger technology

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Intel

Santa Clara, CA

Like IBM, Intel is one of the bigger corporate forces pushing blockchain into the enterprise market. Its open-source Hyperledger Sawtooth platform lets companies build their own blockchains. Users include Cargill, T-Mobile and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Still, IBM is way ahead. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Corda, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth

Key leader: Michael Reed, director, blockchain program

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JPMorgan Chase

New York City

The nation's largest bank is one of the creators of Quorum, a restricted version of the Ethereum blockchain built especially for enterprises looking to move tasks performed by back-office middlemen to the distributed ledger. It recently announced JPM Coin, an early-stage project to enable real-time institution-to-institution payments. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Quorum

Key leader: Christine Moy, blockchain lead

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Maersk

Copenhagen

Transactions for shipping goods from one port to another still rely on reams of paperwork, as they did centuries ago. Last year, IBM and Maersk, one of the world's largest shippers, announced plans to create TradeLens, a global blockchain for shippers. So far, 100 organizations, including ports, freight forwarders, sea and land carriers, and customs agencies, have signed up to use the platform. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: IBM Blockchain, Corda

Key leader: Michael J. White, head of TradeLens

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Mastercard

Purchase, NY

The credit card behemoth has applied for 80 blockchain-related patents. Sixteen have been granted, including one for linking cryptocurrencies to traditional bank accounts and another for increasing the privacy of blockchains. Mastercard rarely comments on its blockchain ambitions, but it recently announced it's working with Amazon and Accenture to build more transparent supply chains where, for example, someone buying a pair of jeans could see where they were made and tip the creator through Mastercard's payment rails. More significantly, if Mastercard can tie its massive, high-speed payments network to blockchain-based payments, it can open a new revenue stream and solve a problem that plagues most blockchain technology: processing times are still slow. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Its own platform, built from scratch.

Key leader: Ken Moore, EVP and head of Mastercard Labs

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MetLife

New York City

Through MetLife's incubator, LumenLab, the insurer has developed a mobile app called Vitana, that is using ethereum's smart contracts to automatically pay claims in certain circumstances. Full profile

Blockchain platform: InsureChain built on Ethereum

Key leader: Zia Zaman, CIO of MetLife Asia

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Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Last year, Microsoft's cloud unit Azure launched Azure Blockchain Workbench, a tool for developing blockchain apps. Many templates are available for free, but if an organization builds or runs an app or network on Azure, Microsoft charges for the underlying cloud services. Blockchain Workbench customers include Insurwave, Webjet, Xbox, Bühler, Interswitch, 3M and Nasdaq. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Ethereum, Parity, Quorum, Corda, Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure

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Nasdaq

New York City

Distributed ledgers could theoretically eliminate the need for centralized exchanges, but Nasdaq has hedged its bets by immersing itself in the new industry. For example, it has sold its market-surveillance software to seven crypto exchanges and a blockchain eVoting product to the South African central securities depository. Nasdaq has also brought together eight Swedish companies to develop a blockchain to replace the current paper-driven trading process in the Swedish mutual fund market. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Symbiont, Corda, Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: Johan Toll, head of digital assets, market technology

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Nestle

Vevey, Switzerland

Over the last two years the $92 billion (sales) consumer goods giant has been testing blockchain technology in more than ten projects. Its most promising is with IBM Food Trust, where it is using blockchain to track the provenance of food ingredients in a handful of products, including Gerber baby food. That service is expected to be available in Europe later this year. Food-borne illnesses cost the U.S. $55 billion a year and can cripple a brand. Blockchain food tracking could reduce that cost and be a selling point for brands that participate. Full profile

Blockchain platform: IBM Blockchain

Key leader: Benjamin Dubois, manager of digital transformation

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Northern Trust

Chicago

The big asset servicer ($10.1 trillion) is using Hyperledger Fabric to handle the administration of private equity fund events, including initial sales and liquidations of fund investments. Northern Trust is also helping hedge funds track their crypto investments and is working with the Australian Securities Exchange on a blockchain-based equities clearing, settlement and custody platform. Last year, it helped the World Bank execute a $79 million bond issue via the Ethereum blockchain. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum

Key leader: Justin Chapman, head of market advocacy and research

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Oracle

Redwood Shores, CA

The database and cloud company is offering "business-ready" blockchain software in an effort to keep customers of its non-blockchain products from defecting to upstarts and rivals like Google and Microsoft. One of Oracle's customers, China Distance Education Holdings, is sharing student educational records and professional certifications across institutions to help employers and recruiters verify that credentials aren't fraudulent. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Oracle Blockchain Platform

Key leader: Frank Xiong, group vice president, Blockchain Development Platform

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Overstock

Midvale, UT

The online discount store became the first major retailer to accept bitcoin in 2014. Founder and CEO Patrick Byrne, a libertarian with a Ph.D. in philosophy, is so convinced that blockchain will change the world that he is trying to get out of the retail business altogether and is already remaking Overstock into something of a crypto-obsessed company. Most notably, he has used $200 million in Overstock's cash to fund Medici Ventures, a subsidiary which has invested in 19 blockchain companies. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Bitcoin, Ethereum, RVN, Florin

Key leader: Patrick Byrne, founder and CEO of Overstock

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PNC

Pittsburgh

The bank is using Ripple's XRP blockchain-based software to process international payments. It is also the only bank involved with IBM's Health Utility Network, which is attempting to speed insurance company payments to health providers. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, DAML, Corda, Ripple

Key leader: J. Christopher Ward, EVP and head of Treasury product management

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Ripple

San Francisco

This startup aims to disrupt Swift, the messaging system the worlds' banks use to transfer an estimated $6 trillion a day, with RippleNet, with aims to be cheaper, faster and more transparent. While it already has 200 customers for its service, Ripple funds operations (including 300 employees) by selling about $100 million a quarter of its own cryptocurrency, XRP. (XRP's total market cap now stands at $13 billion, down from its $146.5 billion all-time high in 2018.) RippleNet customers include big names such as Santander, American Express and PNC. Full profile

Blockchain platform: XRP Ledger

Key leader: Brad Garlinghouse, CEO

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Samsung

Seoul

Samsung is using its Nexledger blockchain platform to overhaul how its battery-manufacturing subsidiary manages contracts and the execution of those contracts. For Korean consumers it has developed a smartphone app that uses the blockchain to verify the identity of the phone's owner to 15 of the nation's banks. That eliminates the inconvenience of Korea's 20-year-old identity verification system, which can require a tedious signup process for each bank. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Nexledger, Ethereum

Key leader: Jeanie Hong, SVP and head of Blockchain Center

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Santander

Madrid

The Spanish banking giant made headlines last year when it allowed its investors to vote at its annual meeting via the blockchain. A year ago, Santander launched mobile app One Pay FX, a foreign exchange service using RippleNet, that enables individuals to transfer money to other individuals in a foreign country in less than a day. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: RippleNet, Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: María de la Concepción de Monteverde, director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence

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SAP SE

Walldorf, Germany

SAP has developed its own cloud-based blockchain toolkit, Leonardo, to keep clients from moving to Oracle or IBM as they transition to distributed ledger technology. It's also selling project development as a service-most notably, it built Bumble Bee Foods' new blockchain, designed to trace the origin of tuna from fisherman to processor to consumer. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Hyperledger Fabric, MultiChain, Quorum

Key leader: Raimund Gross, chief innovation strategist, Blockchain

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Seagate Technology

Cupertino, CA

Data-storage company Seagate Technology is working with IBM on a proof-of-concept blockchain aimed at tracking products through their distribution and life-in large part to ensure that fake hard drives aren't returned to Seagate's warehouses, where they could be resold by accident. Counterfeiting of electronics is a $100 billion problem, and Seagate hard drives are a frequent target for fraud. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: Manuel Offenberg, managing technologist and data security research lead

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Siemens

Munich

In Park Slope, Brooklyn, some residents with Siemens solar panels had more energy than they could use on sunny days. The Brooklyn Microgrid project, run off a private blockchain, allows those with excess power to sell energy to their neighbors. The German giant has a lot of skin in this game, with $28 billion a year in revenues from things like energy turbines and applications managing smart grids. Grid technology has been decentralizing and democratizing power generation; blockchain can accelerate that process. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, Corda

Key leader: Bernd Rosauer, head of research, Technology Field IT Platforms

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Signature Bank

New York City

Signature was the first FDIC-insured bank to develop a blockchain-based digital payments platform. SignetTM allows the bank's commercial clients to send free, secure payments to other commercial clients of the bank at any time of day with no transaction limits, in as little as five seconds. It uses a token, the signet, backed by U.S. dollars. American PowerNet, a Signature Bank client, recently chose SignetTM to make real-time payments to renewable energy providers. Full profile

Blockchain platform: A private, Ethereum-based blockchain

Key leader: Frank Santora, senior vice president and director of digital asset solutions

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State Farm

Bloomington, IL

The insurer has devoted 11 members of its Research, Experiment & Deploy (RED) Labs in Bloomington to developing a blockchain that could speed up the now painfully slow process by which insurers pay claims to policyholders and then seek partial reimbursement from other insurers involved with the claim. State Farm is working with RiskBlock Alliance on an application that could speed up this claims dance. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, Quorum

Key leader: Mike Fields, innovation executive at State Farm RED Labs

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UBS

Zurich

The Swiss bank's most ambitious project so far is Utility Settlement Coin (USC), which would allow central banks to use digital cash instead of their own currencies to move money to each other. It's a bold play-if central bankers start using crypto for big transfers with each other, it could make them more willing to move their own national currencies onto a blockchain. UBS' partners in USC include BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank and Santander. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Quorum, Corda

Key leader: Sam Chadwick, head of blockchain

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Visa

San Francisco

The credit card network has filed for 50 blockchain patents, ranging from a real-time payments settlement system to technology related to crypto trading. This year, Visa is launching B2B Connect, which uses blockchain to help banks around the world process cross-border, business-to-business payments. With $18 trillion in such B2B payments being made a year, gaining even a small chunk of this business would be a nice addition to Visa's consumer-payment dominance. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Hyperledger Fabric .

Key leader: Kevin Phalen, global head of business solutions

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VMware

Palo Alto, CA

The cloud-infrastructure company will soon release a suite of blockchain software products called VMware Blockchain, developed in partnership with Deloitte and Dell. The first product will be one that allows data to be transferred securely. Next up is a service that verifies transactions on the blockchain. Full profile

Blockchain platforms: Project Concord, a new blockchain, which supports multiple frameworks such as Ethereum

Key leader: Mike DiPetrillo, senior director, Blockchain

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Walmart

Bentonville, AR

The world's largest retailer (by sales) has filed for about 50 blockchain patents (for everything from tracking shipments to operating drones) and wants to use the blockchain to quickly pinpoint the culprit in future food-safety scares. In 2016 it partnered with Big Blue to create IBM Food Trust, now being tested by more than 50 companies. Today Walmart can track 25 products, including strawberries, yogurt and chicken, from five suppliers (and counting). In September 2018, it said it would begin requiring all of its lettuce and spinach suppliers to log their shipments on the blockchain. Full profile

Blockchain platform: Hyperledger Fabric

Key leader: Karl Bedwell, senior director, Global Business Services & Technology

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Cryptocurrencies may be in the depths of winter, but it's early spring for new business applications using the technology underlying bitcoin. Take the case of financial record keeping behemoth Depository Trust & Clearing Corp, otherwise known as "DTCC."

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This article talk about how President Trump "threw down the gauntlet" on Iran. This will lead to gas prices continuing to increase for US. I wonder what is the most gas prices could rise to.

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President Trump threw down the gauntlet Monday as his administration said it will not renew waivers to buyers of Iranian crude when they expire May 2. This means, beginning next month, all countries that continue to import Iranian oil will be subject to U.S. sanctions. It will also mean higher gas and diesel prices for U.S. consumers.

The Trump administration is working toward its goal of reducing Iranian oil exports to zero. While this latest move will more than likely put unprecedented economic pressure on the Iranian regime, it will also give renewed political clout to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as they have agreed to match lost Iranian oil barrel for barrel. The good news is that it will help U.S. shale producers who were blindsided last year when the White House issued waivers on Iranian oil imports to China, India, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Greece, South Korea and Taiwan.

That move rattled global oil markets. The waivers caught OPEC and U.S. energy producers by surprise and cost them a lot of money, as they had raised production to offset the losses of Iranian crude.

At the time, the U.S. granted the waivers over concerns about pressure on gasoline and diesel prices. This time the U.S. is looking to mainly the Saudis and the UAE to rise to the occasion and offset those lost barrels.

Yet before they do, they may wait to see if the Iranian barrels actually come off. These players do not want to raise output only to get stuck holding the barrel if prices crash. They may want to wait until they see the U.S. standing behind its words on this. They may also want to verify that the biggest buyers of Iranian crude, China and India, actually stop buying.

This hesitation means that more than likely WTI oil will head back to $70 a barrel and the average price for U.S. gas will probably climb to over $3.00 a gallon this summer. Including this latest move, we have supply issues on many fronts. Venezuela, Libya and now the pressure is tightening on Iran -- and unless OPEC steps up and raises production quickly, the world is going to end up with a shortfall of supply.
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On the positive side, U.S. energy companies may start to recover some lost profits from the last set of waivers, but at the gas pump the pain will be felt.
Phil Flynn is senior energy analyst at The PRICE Futures Group and a Fox Business Network contributor. He is one of the world's leading market analysts, providing individual investors, professional traders, and institutions with up-to-the-minute investment and risk management insight into global petroleum, gasoline, and energy markets. His precise and timely forecasts have come to be in great demand by industry and media worldwide and his impressive career goes back almost three decades, gaining attention with his market calls and energetic personality as writer of The Energy Report. You can contact Phil by phone at (888) 264-5665 or by email at pflynn@pricegroup.com.

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US to end Iran sanctions waivers: What it means for gas prices and your wallet

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President Trump threw down the gauntlet Monday as his administration said it will not renew waivers to buyers of Iranian crude when they expire May 2. This means, beginning next month, all countries that continue to import Iranian oil will be subject to U.S. sanctions.

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The article talks about how a parked Tesla caught on fire in china. This may affect the producer-consumer confidence and may affect tesla's sales in china. I wonder what other car the rich people would start buying if not teslas.

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tesla investigates after car appears to explode in china - cnn

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Tesla is investigating after one of its vehicles appeared to explode in China.