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The fractionalized future of assets is upon us. Tokenization will help to ensure greater liquidity, better price discovery and universal accessibility of illiquid assets.

China casts a long shadow in global business economics. This is true too in the crypto world, where China is becoming a considerable power in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). 

Crypto is abounding worldwide. In just over ten years, cryptocurrencies and other crypto assets have gone global, with 154 countries across the developed and developing world implementing the technology for their country’s various needs.

Many believe the 2008 financial crisis was the defining moment of the United States’ political economy in the twenty-first century.

Approximately 1.7 billion adults do not have bank accounts, according to the 2017 Global Findex survey.

Blockchain has made major strides as of late, making headway into more traditional financial and payment circles. But there’s another, less-mentioned sector that is currently testing the waters with blockchain. That’s the $160-billion gaming industry.

Crypto may not yet be considered an institutionalized asset class — but it’s getting closer.

Under the skin of many businesses with some sort of product to move, there is a network of veins and arteries, stocking and delivering this product to customers, warehouses and distributors.

istorically, the automotive industry has always been the most responsive to technological innovation.

Newcomers in the budding cryptocurrency space have pushed the idea for years, but now that the big wigs are interested, well, so is everyone else.

E-commerce is expected to surpass $4.6 trillion globally by 2022, with the seamless experience of e-wallets boosting its popularity.

The concept of commerce is as old as humankind; however, e-commerce first arose as an idea in the 1980s.

IBM, the 109-year-old technology giant popularly known as Big Blue, has been at the forefront of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), or simply blockchain technology.

Emerging technologies continue to drive the evolution of the capital markets, and none more so than the cloud, machine learning and blockchain. These three technologies will be critical to defining the future success of the capital markets, according to Nasdaq President and CEO A

Blockchain and the Future of the Maritime Industry

When COVID-19 took full effect in March, touring and concerts, which contribute billions of dollars to the music industry annually, were immediately canceled, leaving tens of thousands of artists financially scrambling to make ends meet.

At this year’s virtual Technology of the Future (ToF) conference, Johan Toll, Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq, described how these new marketplaces are being created and the emerging market practices that are driving the rapid development.

Twitter co-founder and CEO and longtime Bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey has added to his praise of the cryptocurrency and its underlying blockchain, saying it is the future of security and other protocols on the social media platform in wake of recent hacks.

The impact of climate change will go well beyond the physical world, and is set to have significant knock-on effects to the global economy. By 2050, experts estimate, climate change will cost the world economy $7.9 trillion.

Look around your room. Chances are that everything has been in a container, on a plane, or inside a truck at some point. The miracle of international trade is a complex beast, a series of arteries feeding goods to each corner of the globe. And most of us know nothing about it.