From 2008 to 2010, Milne threw himself into the world of payments, becoming an expert on the Automated Clearing House, the 40 - year - old electronic
network between financial institutions that's a notoriously convoluted and complicated system.
Not exact matches
So I think that's where we're going to see real penetration and links
between the existing
financial institutions — some of which run blockchain architecture, some of which don't — and public
networks, which will, sort of, drive interoperability.
For example this means creating private blockchain
networks that can be used internally or
between financial institutions - an approach taken by a number of others, including Swiss bank UBS.
Social media
networks have opened up new channels of communication
between financial institutions and their clients.
This is the same
network used by the Federal Reserve to clear checks
between financial institutions.
CENTRE makes further use of the token standard, however, as node operators - whether they be an app operator, a bank or another
financial institution - could issue their own ERC - 20 tokens tied to a particular fiat currency to send
between other parties on the CENTRE
network.
The key difference
between those crypto
networks and traditional
financial institutions is that there is no central authority, like a bank or a government, storing and guarding everyone's money — hence the countercultural appeal.
Stellar.org is a non-profit organization that develops the Stellar
network, an open source distributed ledger that provides interoperability
between financial institutions and different payment
networks.
This
network has been set up
between large
financial institutions in order to facilitate large transactions across borders very quickly.