Tag: Ben Bernanke
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Bernanke at Ripple Event: Blockchain Has ‘Obvious’ Benefits in Payments
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is bullish on blockchain. Speaking at Ripple’s Swell conference in Toronto today, being held the same week and in the same city as Sibos, the annual gathering hosted by Ripple’s rival Swift, Bernanke told a room of several hundred attendees that he believes payments can be slow and expensive as designed…
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Bernanke, Berners-Lee to Headline Ripple’s ‘Sibos-Killer’ Conference
Distributed ledger startup Ripple is stepping up its attempt to disrupt Swift, the infrastructure provider that today connects over 11,000 banks around the world. On the same day, in the same city as Swift’s flagship event Sibos, Ripple has announced it will host Swell, an event also aimed at bringing the world’s financial leaders together to network and discuss trends…