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A brief overview of some of the projects Finserv Experts consultants have worked on…
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Finserv Experts consultants have provided advisory, solution delivery, and thought leadership services in over 40 countries around the globe…
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Finserv Experts consultants regularly speak at conferences and workshops around the world, from local community meetups to major global summits like the G20.
Recent appearances include…
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Recent Posts
Finserv Experts welcomes Emma McClarkin MEP
Greetings all. I am delighted to announce that. Emma McClarkin MEP has agreed to join Finserv Experts as our Digital Transformation Ambassador. Emma has served for the past ten years as a U.K. representative in the European Parliament representing East…
Areiel Wolanow to deliver keynote at Blockchain for Insurance Europe 2019
Greetings all, I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to deliver the Day 2 Keynote for the Blockchain for Insurance Europe conference, 18-19 June in London. I will be discussing what the UK Government is doing to…
Blockchain and Discrete Process Manufacturing
I just arrived home from this evening from the first week working with my new client, the Digital Trust team at T-Systems, and my mind is spinning with ideas. Over the coming months, I am going to be working with…
Finserv Experts signs DLT Solutioning agreement with T-Systems
We are pleased to announce that Finserv Experts has reached an agreement to work with T-Systems in developing DLT solutions. T-Systems is a global ICT provider and is part of the Deutsche Telekom global enterprise. The development team within T-Systems…
Finserv Experts gives evidence in Parliament
22 January 2018 Finserv Experts managing director Areiel Wolanow gave evidence this evening for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain. Areiel spoke on the transformative potential for blockchain in the insurance industry, and cited work carried out by Finserv Experts…
Areiel Wolanow interviewed by Plexus
To further secure their brand leadership in the DLT resourcing space, Plexus Resource Solutions has launched a regular interview series featuring UK thought leaders in the DLT space. I am honored to have been selected for their inaugural edition. Many…
Auditing Smart Contracts
Every major breach involving cryptocurrency, blockchain, and ICO solutions to date can be traced to poorly implemented smart contracts, so it is welcome that Blockgeeks have had a go at establishing guidelines for smart contract auditing. You can find it…
Finserv Experts in Slate magazine:
Finserv Experts managing director Areiel Wolanow is interviewed on ethical AI by Slate as part of an in-depth interview on the UK’s big AI sector deal… You can read the full interview here… https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/the-u-k-wants-to-be-the-world-leader-in-ethical-a-i.html
How the UK is addressing some of the biggest challenges to blockchain adoption
In Singapore, a pair of global banks built a blockchain trade finance prototype for letter of credit origination in 2016. The actual build of the prototype was estimated to take 15 weeks, and successfully finished on time. But agreeing the intellectual property…
Invitation: How AI and machine learning are driving financial inclusion around the world.
One of the biggest concerns about the emerging commercial viability of AI is the possibility that a huge number of people might lose their jobs to software and robots that can do those jobs better and/or cheaper. This is a valid…
Understanding the Potential of Mechanism Design
Understanding potential of mechanism design People have been trying to model how decisions get made for a long time. In western history, the earliest person we know of to try and model decision making was Aristotle in his studies on…
Using distributed ledgers to implement an entirely new, decentralized business model for the London insurance market
As part of its overall efforts to modernize the London insurance market and make it easier to do business with, in 2017 the market asked a simple question: Could a new, more effective, significantly lower cost operating model be created…
Critical Success Factors for Blockchain/DLT Startups
In the past three or four weeks I have had no less than six separate requests to offer advice on the viability of various blockchain startups or ICO’s. After thinking about it a bit, I wrote the following article on…
Expert Opinion: Display and Programmatic Advertising featuring Areiel Wolanow
Areiel is featured on MarTechExec, offering a view on how blockchain is poised to disrupt current digital marketing best practice. This is excerpted from a full guide on digital marketing. Check out the article here
Advising law enforcement on cryptocurrency cybercrime
This afternoon, I had the singular opportunity to work with Ed Heath and the UK’s Southwest Regional Cyber Cyber Crime Unit. Working together, we explored ways in which the RCCU could expand their coverage to include crimes committed with cryptocurrency. This was…
Disintermediation, and the role of humans in providing assurance
Published in Global Accountant, 22 August 2017 Read article here
How to become a recognized expert in your chosen field — a detailed, concrete, and step-by-step guide.
A few people have asked me how to go about establishing themselves as recognized thought leaders in their respective fields. I make no particular claims to expertise in this regard, but it is something I have thought about consciously while trying…
Highlights from the G20
In 2015, I had the opportunity to address the G20 at their SME Finance Forum. I spoke on the potential of machine learning to accelerate financial inclusion. It was an impressive group of speakers, and being invited to take…
Mobile devices and unintended segmentation bias
Most of my articles, in fact most of my ideas in general, come from something I read that keeps pinging my consciousness for several days after first reading it, and today’s article is no exception. The article in this case is…
Blockchain, Fake News, and Private Money: Cryptocurrency in historical context
Yesterday, Apple announced that one of the features to be included in iOS 11 was the ability to use their iMessage protocol to send money. Author Daniel Priestley commented about this on his Facebook page; here is an excerpt: Facebook,…