
April 24, 2017
- Chamber Membership Hits 100
- Chamber Co-Produces Emerging Links, Brazil’s First Blockchain Conference
- Georgetown University, Chamber of Digital Commerce and Digital Currency Group Release “Blockchain & Financial Inclusion” White Paper
At the DC Blockchain Summit we announced the addition of 20 new member companies to our membership. The new members include: Ad Meliora, AlphaPoint, Argon Group, BankCoin.Global, Bitcoin IRA, Blockchain Capital, Blockstream, Cooley LLP, Crowell & Moring LLP, Finchain, Frost Brown Todd, Grupo Cimcorp, Hashed Health, IHS Markit, Locke Lord LLP, Milligan Partners, OTC Exchange Network, PokitDok, Unocoin and Vertex.
These companies join a membership base that has more than doubled over the past year, now comprising of over 100 members.
Read more here.
“Blockchain technology allows financial innovators to provide specific solutions to the regional problems faced by the unbanked, allowing them to develop tailored solutions to a massive and complex global problem.”
Thanks to the following Chamber members and partners for their contributions to the paper:
- Professor Reena Aggarwal, Director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, Georgetown University
- An expert advisory panel: Perianne Boring, President and Founder, Chamber of Digital Commerce; Matthew Gamser, Chief Executive Officer, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation; Meltem Demirors, Director, Digital Currency Group; Jessica Dybfest, Assistant Director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, Georgetown University, and other faculty and staff from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
- Interviewees who provided input and guidance: Melissa Bradley, Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University; Jason Brett, Director of Operations, Chamber of Digital Commerce; Ron Hose, Founder & CEO, Coins.ph; Elizabeth Rossiello, Founder & CEO, BitPesa; Billy Jack, Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University; Jordan Kruger, Director of Research and Operations, Bloq; Ross Leckow, Deputy General Counsel, International Monetary Fund; Matthais Mordi, CEO, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria; Sunny Ray, Co-Founder/President, Unocoin; Carla Reyes, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law; Pia Roman, Director, Inclusive Finance Advocacy Office, Bankgo Sentral ng Pilipinas; Aaron Siwoku, Founder, Toast; James Angel, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Georgetown University
Download the paper here.
The Chamber will host in-person meeting for the BIPC on May 22, 2017 at Consensus in NYC. Non-Chamber members may apply for a guest pass to attend. Please contact Dan Spuller to RSVP at dan@digitalchamber.org.
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