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Ari Juels + Joshua Ashley Klayman (legal chair WSBA) + MONAX (ISO20022 SWIFT PoC) @ 2016 WSBA event

Nov 30, 2016
>A group of Wall Street insiders and blockchain innovators took to the stage yesterday at the New York Law School in Manhattan to sort through when a smart contract is a bad idea, when it's a good idea and what stands in the way of widespread proliferation of the technology. "There are some looming grand challenges," said Ari Juels, professor at Cornell Tech and co-director at the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3). Speaking on a panel about implementing legally sound, secure smart contracts, at an event hosted by the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Juels broke down the key obstacles into two main categories.

https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-smart-contracts-looming-challenges/

>Global message network SWIFT has developed a proof of concept with Monax Industries on how the ISO 20022 message standard can be used in blockchain technology to express specific data content in financial instruments and functions between multiple parties. The smart contracts, written in Solidity. represented asset servicing across the full lifecycle of a bond trade.

https://finops.co/operations/blockchains-smart-contracts-what-smart-whats-not/

https://www.wsba.co/legal.html

Her twitter connections hit a lot of the usual breadcrumbs. Not just Accord.
WSBA is partnered with BITA. BITA is organizing Marketwaves.
https://www.wsba.co/partners-and-alliances.html