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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

You're reading from   Blockchain Development for Finance Projects Building next-generation financial applications using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Stellar

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838829094
Length 530 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ishan Roy Ishan Roy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Blockchain Payments and Remittances
2. Blockchain in Financial Services FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Blockchain Wallet for Fungible and Non-Fungible Assets 4. Designing a Payment Gateway for Online Merchants 5. Corporate Remittances and Settlement 6. Enabling Cross-Border Remittances with Real-Time KYC/AML Verification 7. Section 2: Blockchain Workflows Using Smart Contracts
8. Building a Letter of Credit Workflow Module Using Smart Contracts 9. Section 3: Securing Digital Documents and Files Using Blockchain
10. Building a Tamper-Proof Document Storage System 11. Section 4: Decentralized Trading Exchanges Using Blockchain
12. Building a Decentralized Trading Exchange 13. Developing a Currency Trading Exchange for Market Making 14. Looking into the Future 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Application Checklist

Present-day banking and finance systems

The global banking and financial system plays a huge role in the life of the modern human being. It moves more than a trillion dollars around the world in a day, and more than a billion people are directly or indirectly served by it every day. It is the backbone of global trade finance and it enables enterprises, from start-ups to conglomerates, to run their businesses smoothly in any part of the world. The technology that makes this ecosystem tick has evolved in leaps and bounds in the last two decades, especially with the advent of the internet.

However, owing to compliance restrictions, reliance on legacy systems, and a conservative outlook on technology, most banking IT systems today are yet to adapt to advancements in technology and are unable to keep up with the nefarious means employed by malicious individuals. As a results close...

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