Video: how can we make the blockchain and fintech more secure?
Ad Feature by Strathclyde Business School
Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 BST
As fintech transforms the backbone of the financial system, the prospect of quicker, cheaper and more efficient transitions domes closer.
However, there is a dark side of fintech - anonymous blockchains can be used for tax evasion and money laundering and speculators entering the crypto currency world often have no real knowledge of - or interest in - financial markets and regulation. There are huge implications for capital flows, central banks, employees and consumers.
Yet all human activity has a dark side and 21st century innovators will use all their ingenuity to rise to the challenge - to show that fintech might have a dark side, but is reaching for the light.