Blockchain

It’s good to talk: Barclays, Clearmatics announce hackathon

UK bank Barclays has partnered with London-based startup Clearmatics to host a blockchain hackathon involving the latter’s open source interoperability protocol, Ion.

This will take place at the Barclays Rise FinTech hub in London on 5th-6th February. Further details here.

Blockchains need to be bespoke

Developers need to reconfigure their approach and way of thinking when building blockchains, according to Barclays’ Intrapreneur, Julian Wilson.

Speaking at an event in December entitled Hard Fork Decentralized, Wilson argued developers should not be using the technology as a bolt-on or addition to current ways of working, but rather overhauling business models built around a suitable blockchain.

In some cases, venturing down this route purely for the sake of it is the worst thing a company can do, he continued. For an organisation like Barclays, it is not as simple as just migrating to the blockchain, given its hundreds of years of evolution. Solutions therefore need to be bespoke.

And when it comes to satisfying know-your-customer (KYC) policies, they should be built with the law in mind, and not the other way around, Wilson concluded.

Scott Thompson

Scott has been working in technology and business journalism for nearly 20 years, with a focus on FinTech, retail, payments and disruptive technology. He has been Editor of such titles as FStech, Retail Systems and IBS Journal and also contributed to the likes of Retail Technology Innovation Hub, PaymentEye, bobsguide, Essential Retail, Open Banking Hub, TechHQ and Internet of Business.

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