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Published inJan 2020
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Ishan Roy
Ishan Roy
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Ishan Roy

Ishan Roy leads the Blockchain initiative at the Centre of Excellence for Emerging Technologies (CEET) at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). He is currently working on the Tamil Nadu Blockchain Backbone project. His foray into blockchain began in the year 2016, at the blockchain team at ICICI Bank. This team carried out the first blockchain remittance in India. Since then he has worked as the Head of Products at HashCash Consultants where he built blockchain-enabled financial solutions for global clients. He has also mentored students and industry veterans as a blockchain trainer with Edureka. He is extremely passionate about technology and loves to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field through the community
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Present-day banking and finance systems

The global banking and financial system plays a huge role in the life of the modern human being. It moves more than a trillion dollars around the world in a day, and more than a billion people are directly or indirectly served by it every day. It is the backbone of global trade finance and it enables enterprises, from start-ups to conglomerates, to run their businesses smoothly in any part of the world. The technology that makes this ecosystem tick has evolved in leaps and bounds in the last two decades, especially with the advent of the internet.

However, owing to compliance restrictions, reliance on legacy systems, and a conservative outlook on technology, most banking IT systems today are yet to adapt to advancements in technology and are unable to keep up with the nefarious means employed by malicious individuals. As a results close...

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Author (1)

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Ishan Roy

Ishan Roy leads the Blockchain initiative at the Centre of Excellence for Emerging Technologies (CEET) at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). He is currently working on the Tamil Nadu Blockchain Backbone project. His foray into blockchain began in the year 2016, at the blockchain team at ICICI Bank. This team carried out the first blockchain remittance in India. Since then he has worked as the Head of Products at HashCash Consultants where he built blockchain-enabled financial solutions for global clients. He has also mentored students and industry veterans as a blockchain trainer with Edureka. He is extremely passionate about technology and loves to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field through the community
Read more about Ishan Roy