/biz/ - Business & Finance

Boris Reznikov
Partnerships
Boris loves thinking about ways to drive growth by building relationships and connecting people with similar goals. Prior to Stellar Boris was at Deloitte Consulting, where he developed growth strategies for clients in a variety of industries. In a previous life, Boris advised Fortune 500 companies on hostile mergers and proxy contests. Boris holds an MBA from Duke University.

Bartek Nowotarski
Developer
Bartek Nowotarski is a software engineer focusing on web applications security. He has a masters in computer science from Jagiellonian University. Before joining Stellar, Bartek worked as a lead developer and security consultant, and he has found vulnerabilities in high-profile sites such as Facebook and Yahoo.

Brian Gale
Growth
Brian is passionate about technology and innovation as a tool for creating social impact around the world. Prior to joining Stellar, Brian was a strategic consultant for early-stage startups in Europe and the U.S. across a variety of industries working on product launches, go-to-market strategies and developing global growth initiatives. Brian holds an MBA from ESADE.

David Mazières
Chief Scientist
David Mazières is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the Secure Computer Systems Group. Prof. Mazières received a BS in Computer Science from Harvard and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with a focus on security.

Ella Qiang
Partnerships China
Ella is passionate about the intersection of finance, technology and innovative business models. At Stellar, she leads strategic partnerships in China. Previously, Ella worked at China Development Bank, structuring financing of infrastructure projects. Most recently she worked at a distributed generation solar provider that offers solar as a service to U.S. home owners. Ella has an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

>>7023589
Aw lil pajeet

5 Things You Need To Know About Stellar Lumens According To IBM
IBM’s Michael Dowling, Group CTO and Chief Architect for Blockchain Financial Services, referred to in his Reddit post a month ago about their partnership with Stellar.

IBM and Stellar have a common purpose to fix a genuine problem and they are determined to stick together to make this happen
>The IBM/Stellar Universal Payment Solution represents a shift in the way traditional – and now non-traditional – financial institutions can send value around the world with as little fraction as legally possible….The folks at Stellar, like us, want to see the world move past the 40 + year old fragmented system that we all suffer in today, but move towards a system that is more fair and equitable for all. This partnership is not just long term – it’s tight. Stellar joined the Hyperledger Foundation in addition to partnering on this project. There are many upcoming projects coming up this year about to be announced.

Stellar Lumens (XLM / STR) is already active and being used in very practical ways. Volume will only increase as more partnerships are announced. Results will be seen very soon – Q1 2018.

>XLM, while relatively small today, is growing fast. More and more people are using Lumens and trading them actively. We have a strong desire (and requirement) to open the market for fiat to XLM at the institutional level. We have 1 major market maker right now, and 14 major institutions involved in direct or indirect capacity on the network. Starting in Q1 2018, you should see more of those institutions redirecting payment traffic on the network.
This major market maker is rumored to be Bank of America based on one of their websites mentioning XLM in the code before the page was promptly taken down.

It is steps ahead of Bitcoin as it is already compliant with regulations

It has a proven model unlike Ethereum as it already has the unique technology to issue any asset directly

>>6668215
As someone who works in logistics this gives me a boner

>>6267945
No I'm curious on your stats for the amount of people who were given lumens. How many people received them and what percentage of those people will be coming back to sell vs hold?

Also you fuddy duddy, this coin was popular before the rumors of FairX came out due to the type of support they have behind them as well as there overall goal.

If people fell for the fomo that's their fault

Reminder that IBM is involved in multiple crypto projects

>>5949976
Bro just shut up already

>>5536302
All you need to do is google Stellar IBM

>>5503984
$400, but I'm poor so that's half of my current holdings.

>>5503679

Stellar
Sticking with the theme that blockchain is king, one under-the-radar cryptocurrency you should be following is Stellar (formerly Stellar Lumens), and its coin, the XLM. This is a virtual currency that holds true to its name, as the XLM has been "stellar" this year with a 10,400% year-to-date gain.

Stellar's focus is similar to that of Ripple: building financial products for transactions around the globe. In other words, it's targeting enterprise clients with high volumes of cross-border transactions. But whereas Ripple is sinking its teeth into big banks and financial-service companies, Stellar is looking at servicing multinational corporations that conduct billions in revenue outside of their home country. Stellar's blockchain suggests that cross-border payments could settle in just two-to-five seconds.

What's more, Stellar also incorporates smart contract protocols into its blockchain. Though they aren't exactly the same as Ethereum's, they nonetheless are an attractive addition for enterprise customers.

In October, Stellar announced a partnership with IBM (NYSE:IBM) and KlickEx to facilitate quicker cross-border transactions. IBM generates tens of billions of dollars from global clients, signaling that this could be Stellar's opportunity to prove the value of its blockchain to other multinationals. Currently, a dozen banks in the South Pacific region are deploying this project, with IBM expected to scale the project beyond this region if it's successful.

>>5335838

>durrr IBM not moonin