The impact of blockchain on banks

1. blockchain will not lead to the disappearance of banks. Blockchain will only improve the business of banks
at present, some well-known financial institutions in the world have begun to pay attention to blockchain and have carried out corresponding research and development. But banks will only make use of blockchain and will never let blockchain replace themselves
the underlying technologies of bitcoin, Ruitai and Laite are blockchain, but no one can replace the bank.

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As a traditional financial institution, banks are the most active Pathfinder in the field of blockchain. In recent years, many banks at home and abroad have applied blockchain technology to credit, clearing and other fields. The unique trust mechanism of blockchain is regarded by banks as a key technological breakthrough in innovating risk management and simplifying transaction process. However, as an emerging technology, blockchain ecology is still in the process of establishment, and its application is very limited. Many problems still need to be solved graally in the development

"at present, blockchain can't run high-frequency and concurrent transactions, and network speed and computing power can't support it. For example, in the field of payment, if it is online shopping, it can be realized; If it's high-frequency futures trading, it can't be done. " Huang Zhen said

JIANG Peng said that at the beginning of designing the blockchain system, China CITIC Bank carefully demonstrated the business links suitable for the use of blockchain

"from the global experience, it is not suitable to use blockchain to build a large and complex system. Instead of trying to solve all problems with blockchain, we should focus on solving the core problems. It's time-consuming to build a too complex system. The technology is developing so fast that before the old system is finished, it will face the iteration of new technology. " Jiang Peng said

the idea of "only solving core problems" ensures that after the blockchain goes online, the relevant business operations of branches of China CITIC Bank can be upgraded without process transformation

Fan Bin said frankly that it will take time for banks to fully apply the blockchain, and IBM's investment in the blockchain open source community will continue, on the one hand to cultivate the market, on the other hand to compete for the commanding height of the blockchain platform. With the rapid iteration of blockchain technology itself, there is still a lot of imagination for financial institutions to use this new technology

the content comes from Xinhuanet

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On August 6, 2018, Mr. Cai Yi, financial instry consultant of Huawei Company and founder and CEO of Huaxuan technology, was in daga | blockchain & amp; AI (core group) made a special topic sharing, the theme is: the current situation and Prospect of blockchain finance. The following text is arranged according to the speech of the lecture and has been reviewed by the author

Cai Yi: Consultant of financial instry of Huawei, founder and CEO of Huaxuan science and technology, founder of shared reading association, member of China Writers Association, engaged in financial science and technology research for more than ten years, and is a senior expert in digital transformation of banks

good evening, everyone. I'm very glad and honored to share some thoughts with you here

let's make a simple self introction: my name is Cai Yi. I worked as a writer in my youth. I wrote some books, magazines and novels in the 1990s. At that time, there was no Internet. After work, I have been engaged in the information work of financial instry, from financial channels to data centers, from outlets to technology, witnessed the development of financial technology, and also found some problems. After 2014, I worked as an investment partner and in recent years as a financial instry consultant in Huawei. From the cognitive level, I worked as a consultant for the talent development of digital transformation in the financial instry

in 2015, I started Huaxuan technology and sharing reading club. At present, we mainly focus on the cognition of blockchain and the implementation of financial technology solutions. At the cognitive level, interactive sharing and knowledge management are carried out in the way of book club. At the technical level, the process and scene of the financial instry are reshaped by combining blockchain, big data and AI technologies. I am interested in blockchain and often study and discuss with some friends. Of course, some views are still superficial. I hope you can exchange more criticisms and corrections

the elite think tanks in the United States once believed that the core of maintaining global leadership is science and technology, which must rely on economy, and the core of economy is finance. So what is the future of finance

today's topic is: the current situation and Prospect of blockchain finance. I would like to introce it mainly from three aspects:

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briefly introce finance and financial system

the current situation of blockchain finance

prospect of blockchain finance

First of all, let's talk about the concept of finance. The word "finance" originated from Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868), which is somewhat related to the gold standard established by Japan in 1897. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was introced into China from Japan. It was first proposed by Finance Minister Liang Qichao in 1902. At that time, Zhang Zhidong raised his objection. Therefore, after the Sino Japanese War of 1894, China remained in the silver standard, but it also made China avoid the Great Depression of 1929

The original meaning of finance is "money accommodation", which refers to the circulation of funds in the society. Later, its meaning has been expanded to indicate transactions and economic activities related to money and credit. In fact, there is another reason: gold used to be the only medium in international trade, and its value and wealth were based on gold. Therefore, when making standard gold bars, people need to melt gold into shape, which may be the original meaning of the word "finance", that is, to melt metal

Finance is the general name of currency circulation and credit activities and the economic activities associated with them.

let's look at the definition of Finance later: finance is the general name of currency circulation and credit activities and the economic activities associated with them. In a broad sense, finance generally refers to all the economic activities related to the issuance, custody, exchange, settlement and financing of credit currency, Even including the trading of gold and silver, the narrow sense of Finance specifically refers to the credit currency financing

In short, the contents of finance can be summarized as the issuance and withdrawal of money, the absorption and payment of deposits, the issuance and recovery of loans, the trading of gold, silver and foreign exchange, the issuance and transfer of securities, insurance, trust, domestic and international currency settlement, etc. To put it more bluntly, finance has two-way feedback. The institutions engaged in financial activities mainly include banking, insurance, securities, trust, financial leasing, etc. We all know this better and have frequent contact with it. Therefore, to understand the meaning and institutions of finance, we also need to understand China's financial system

2 China's financial system the development of China's financial system can be roughly divided into five stages:

initial formation stage, the first five years (1948-1953): the establishment of the people's Bank of China (1948). At this time, the PBC is far from what we want now. But it marks the beginning of new China's financial institution system

In the second five years (1953-1978), the people's Bank of China (PBC) is the only financial institution in China that deals with all kinds of banking business, integrating the central bank and ordinary banks. In fact, reunification means that we the model of foreign countries. I will not talk about specific countries

In the third five years (1979-1983), the Bank of China (established in 1912), the Agricultural Bank of China (established in 1951) and the Construction Bank of China (established in 1954) were restored or established one after another, but the people's Bank of China still integrates currency issuance and credit. We can see that after the reform and opening up, China's financial instry has developed very fast

the diversified financial institution system has begun to take shape. Ten years (from September 1983 to 1993): it has formed a financial institution system with the people's Bank of China as the core, the four major professional banks of instry, agriculture, China and construction as the main body, and other financial institutions coexisting and cooperating. After 1987, there were Bank of communications, China Merchants Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank, CITIC and Hengfeng. In 1988, Ping'an, Guangfa and Xingye appeared. Everbright, Huaxia and Shanghai Pudong Development Co., Ltd. appeared in 1992, and the Securities Regulatory Commission was set up in the same year

the stage of building and improving the social * * market financial institution system (since 1994): it has formed a relatively complete financial institution system with "one bank, three meetings" as the leading role, large, medium and small commercial banks as the main body, and a variety of non bank financial institutions as the auxiliary wing. In 1994, three major policy banks (China Development Bank, Export Import Bank of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China) were established. In 1995, Minsheng Bank, the first private commercial bank, was established (which is of great significance). In 1998, urban commercial banks emerged and CIRC was established. In fact, the CBRC appeared relatively late, and it was only established in 2003. Since then, the pattern of "one party, three meetings" has been formed. However, not long ago, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission merged into the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. You can pay attention to this

from the perspective of evolution, the normative research of finance is often linear

that is, we often take a certain evolution form as the standard (usually developed market economy system, such as the Soviet Union, Germany, the United States and even Japan), describe the progress path of the financial system from non marketization to marketization, from inefficient allocation of financial resources to efficient allocation, and focus on explaining the gap of the standard form and the reasons

In fact, we can find from the development process of China's financial system just now: since 1978, China's financial system has evolved in the direction of marketization, standardization, diversification and internationalization, All kinds of financial institutions show a "network" and "strong connection" business form, that is, the connection degree between banks, banks and other financial institutions, as well as financial sub markets has increased significantly, and the credit connection is increasingly close, mixed and complicated

the ecological environment of financial instry has also undergone some obvious changes. On the one hand, traditional formal financial institutions seek to speed up transformation and innovation, and strive to seize the opportunity in business strategy, market positioning, management structure, format and proct innovation. On the other hand, a large number of emerging financial institutions have emerged

financial format also presents new characteristics such as real estate financialization, non bank institutions "banking" and asset securitization

The above changes are beyond the imagination of the instry, regulators and policy makers, and will bring a series of impacts:

on the positive side, the scale and composition of the financial system have been expanded, the business expansion and financial service capacity of financial institutions have been improved, the financial market has been developed, and innovative payment has developed rapidly. That's what we're going to talk about in financial technology

in a common saying, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. The negative aspects are mainly reflected in the following aspects: the interaction between the

financial system and the real economy tends to be complex, and the role of the financial system in promoting and amplifying asset bubbles is underestimated. p>

the reticulation and strong correlation of the financial system widen the gap between the financial instry and financial supervision, and weaken the effectiveness of traditional supervision. China's current financial supervision system has only been in operation for more than ten years

the transmission path and mechanism of monetary policy through the financial system have changed (the transmission chain of monetary policy has been lengthened or deformed, the conctivity and effectiveness have declined), and the initiative and effectiveness of regulation are facing new constraints. Since its establishment in 1996, the current monetary policy framework has been constantly improved in response to the development of economy and financial market, but the complexity of the financial system in recent years has put it to a new test. Broad money M2 is also impacted by financial deepening, electronic payment and other factors, and further weakened by the shadow banking system

all kinds of cross market, cross business and cross-border behaviors to evade supervision make a variety of risk factors intertwined, such as: capital pool operation with serious mismatch of maturity and procts hides large liquidity risk, proct nesting leads to risk transmission, insufficient shadow banking supervision, local debt, real estate, external shocks, etc., all of which bring great challenges to the stability of the financial system

without comparison, there is no harm, and China's financial system as a whole is relatively backward. This kind of backwardness is mainly reflected in the backwardness of bank innovation: the people's Bank of China announced in October 2015 to abolish the "interest margin protection", while the interest rate of the United States had been completely marketized as early as April 1986, and China was nearly 30 years late

3 the institutional framework and basic problems of China's financial system

Second, the * * third party acts as a credit intermediary to guarantee the realization of asset transfer transactions

the third is the transaction settlement and clearing completed by the centralized clearing organization

Based on this, there are also four problems:

1) credit system and trust mechanism. Traditional finance must have strict transaction records to accumulate credit. Without transaction records, it is difficult to achieve financing or loans, because there is no technical means to ensure the safety of transactions between the two sides

(2) transaction settlement takes a long time. The time of traditional financial transactions has been speeding up, but the settlement time is still relatively long, especially for cross-border transactions, which often can not arrive immediately

(3) the cost of intermediary service is high. The traditional financial transaction system is very important

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Blockchain technology has the advantages of being difficult to tamper with and easy to trace. It can play a role in identity information management, trust mechanism construction, and credit information chain of small and micro enterprises

here is an example of a bank in Nanping:

e to the outbreak of online business, the original offline signing method has been unable to meet the needs of the rapid change of the banking business, and the bank's digital construction is imminent, but the bank's risk control department has strict compliance requirements:

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online business data sensitive privacy, Is the transmission secure

does the electronic signature have legal effect

can electronic evidence be accepted by the court

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these concerns have become obstacles for banks to introce e-contracts and carry out business digital transformation

after adopting the unique ENA initiative forensics patent technology of the "real hammer" trusted electronic evidence platform, a bank in Nanping, through the clean server of the notary office, online carries out real-time preservation, storage and certification of the electronic data of the target system, records the whole process of the electronic data from generation, transmission to storage, and finally the notary office issues the forensics preservation report with official seal, The effectiveness of the documents is notarial documents, which can be directly accepted by the court. Because the report is issued by the notary office, it has more credibility than the self certification of the third-party E-contract platform, which solves the concerns of the risk control department of the bank at one stroke. The whole process is online and automated, and the front-end customer operation has no perception

at the same time, combined with the back-end case system of "real hammer" and the outsourcing execution service, the bank realized the rapid dispute resolution of Internet business. It not only ensures the compliance and effectiveness of the electronic contract signing process, but also solves the problem that the bank cases are scattered all over the country and the cost of legal business trip is high; The litigation cycle is long and there is no efficient disposal channel

5. Blockchain is a technology that can completely change the underlying design of the financial system, because it can realize the undifferentiated record between the ownership of all assets in the market and the transaction records of all market participants, so it can completely eliminate the intermediate links of clearing and trusteeship, which are used to confirm the ownership before, ring and after the transaction; In addition, as an electronic information record, blockchain can be combined with computer algorithm to realize the automation of transactions, that is, intelligent contract. There are many derivative applications of blockchain combined with other financial technologies, each of which can replace a kind of market intermediary. Blockchain is to financial services what TCP / IP is to the Internet: once the underlying standards are recognized and popularized, specific applications like bitcoin and R3 will appear in every corner of financial services. Bitcoin uses blockchain technology to query and record. For example, if I register an account in haobtc and transfer the money, I need to query the status in the block browser in the account or the block browser in BTC. In this way, the blockchain technology helps me solve the problem of daily transfer currency query.

6. There are two roles and four moles in the cross-border payment solution based on euz. The two main roles are the gateway and customer participating in the euz payment. They are as follows:
the first role is gateway, which can be bank, market maker, liquidity provider, etc. The main function of the gateway is to let the legal assets in reality enter the blockchain payment and settlement network
the second role is customers, which can be all kinds of international trade customers. Customers are the parties involved in the blockchain payment transaction, and jointly participate in the confirmation of transaction information. In the process of transaction, once either party does not confirm the transaction, the transaction cannot be formally effective. Through this common verification, the risk of information opacity is greatly avoided, and the risk of cross-border payment in international trade is reced
the four functional moles in blockchain payment and settlement are the core business logic moles in cross-border payment
the first function mole is network connector. It is a tool to help all kinds of institutions access blockchain payment network as gateway. Network connector is a "plug and play" function mole, which can be integrated with the existing international payment and settlement system, so that banks can process cross-border payment business through blockchain. The mole is connected with the remitting bank and the receiving bank to exchange personal information, expenses, delivery details, payment details, etc. After the system confirms the transaction information of both parties, the mole connects the blockchain payment ledger for settlement processing, and notifies all parties to confirm the transaction
the second function mole is blockchain payment ledger. Banks, market makers, etc. access blockchain payment books as nodes
the third function mole is the market maker client. The market maker submits digital assets to the blockchain payment account book, and the settlement platform can realize the function of market maker through internal exchange settlement or integration into the blockchain payment network through this mole
the fourth function mole is transaction client. Customers can directly operate blockchain payment settlement through the client.

7. The central bank has not launched a digital currency, which can not keep up with the PPP model. This is obviously a false publicity and a pyramid scheme. This project is similar to the previous MMM mutual financial community
it is suggested that this project can also go to the police. If you don't understand digital currency, you'd better not play it. If you are interested in digital currency, you can pay attention to bitcoin, Ruitai, Laite and other mainstream digital currencies.

8. The entry threshold of virtual currency is the lowest, which is relatively reliable. Choose regular exchange hot currency or okex. Leverage trading of foreign exchange futures is very risky. The stock market is not perfect and has little investment value at present.

9. If we look at the current poverty situation in Africa, I'm afraid it will be a long time
let's see what others say.