Opportunities of central bank under blockchain Technology
what benefits most from this is the domestic currency circle. In 2017, digital currency and related fund-raising activities were banned in China, which is quite negative in the eyes of ordinary people. In fact, the central bank's initiative to explore into cryptocurrency is the recognition of the core concept of digital currency. With this incentive, domestic enterprises will actively enter the instry and inject fresh blood into the instry, which is the most important
about this, you can see the reports of blockchain media, such as golden finance, coin easy to know column, chain news and so on.
Blockchain instry presents rapid development, helping the real economy to rece costs and improve efficiency
at present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and instrial change sweeping the world, big data, cloud computing, Internet of things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other new technologies continue to emerge, and the digital economy is profoundly changing the way of human proction and life, becoming a new driving force of economic growth. As a disruptive technology, blockchain is leading a new round of technological and instrial changes in the world, and is expected to become
the "source" of global technological innovation and mode innovation, and promote the change from "information internet" to "value Internet"
in China's 13th five year plan for national informatization, blockchain is regarded as a key cutting-edge technology, and it is clearly proposed to strengthen the innovation, experiment and application of new technologies such as blockchain,
in order to seize the leading power of the new generation of information technology. At present, China's blockchain technology continues to innovate, and the blockchain instry has initially taken shape. It has begun to be rapidly applied in supply chain finance, credit reference, proct traceability, right trading, digital identity, electronic evidence and other fields. It is expected to promote China's economic system to achieve technological change, organizational change and efficiency change, and make an important contribution to the construction of a modern economic system
as of June 2018, China's blockchain related business has initially formed a scale under the promotion of the government, enterprises and capital, and is in the forefront of the world in terms of the number of patents, financing environment, policy support and application landing
the instry is developing rapidly, and the number of enterprises is increasing rapidly.
according to the statistical data of in depth analysis report on business model innovation and investment opportunities of blockchain instry published by prospective instry research institute, there were 406 patent applications related to blockchain in the world in 2017, of which 225 were from China. As of the end of March 2018, the number of blockchain based companies in China has reached 456. The blockchain instry has initially formed a scale. From the upstream hardware manufacturing, platform services, security services to the downstream instrial technology application services, instry investment, media publicity, talent services and other instrial chain links are basically complete
from the change of the number of newly established companies in China's blockchain instry, the number of Companies in this field began to increase in 2014, and the number of newly established companies increased significantly in 2016, more than 100, more than three times of 2015. 2017 is the peak period of blockchain entrepreneurship in recent years. Due to the rapid popularization of blockchain concept and the graal maturity of technology, many entrepreneurs swarmed into this field, and the number of newly established companies reached 178
from equipment manufacturing to instrial application, the context of the blockchain instry chain is graally clear.
from the distribution of newly established companies in the blockchain instry segmentation field, as of the end of March 2018, the number of instrial application companies in the blockchain field is the largest, including 86 companies providing application services for the financial instry and 109 companies providing application services for the real economy. In addition, there are more than 40 related companies in blockchain solutions, underlying platforms, blockchain media and communities
from the perspective of the distribution of investment events in the blockchain instry segments, companies related to instrial application services have the largest number of investment events, with a total of 113. It can be seen that investors are paying more and more attention to projects with specific application scenarios that can be actually implemented. The number of events in the field of underlying platform is 42, and the number of events in the field of blockchain media and community is 28. The field of blockchain is attracting more and more entrepreneurs and capital, becoming a new highland for innovation and entrepreneurship. With the development of blockchain technology and the acceleration of application, the instrial scale will continue to increase, and this field is expected to become a new economic growth point in the future
the influx of Internet giants has rapidly promoted the development of China's blockchain instry
blockchain technology is not only favored by start-ups, but also widely concerned by internet giants. Internet giants have expanded their blockchain business and rapidly promoted the development of China's
blockchain instry. At present, Tencent, Alibaba, Internet, Jingdong and other Internet instry giants have joined in the research and scenario application of blockchain technology
the regional distribution is relatively concentrated, and the instrial agglomeration effect is obvious.
from the perspective of the regional distribution of China's blockchain companies, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Zhejiang are still the concentration places of blockchain entrepreneurship, accounting for more than 80% of the total. Among them, Beijing is in the absolute leading position with 175 companies, accounting for 38%; Shanghai ranked second with 95 companies, accounting for 21%; Guangdong Province ranked third with 71 companies, accounting for 16%; Zhejiang Province ranked fourth with 36 companies, accounting for 8%. In addition, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Fujian, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou are among the top ten provinces in China's blockchain entrepreneurial activity
the application of blockchain is diversified, extending from finance to the field of entity
blockchain technology has the characteristics of distributed, tamper proof, high transparency and traceability, which is very suitable for the business needs of the whole financial system. Therefore, it has been applied in payment and clearing, credit financing, financial transactions, securities, insurance, leasing and other sub fields. For example, Minsheng Bank and China CITIC Bank jointly launched the first domestic L / C blockchain application, and Ping An of China's two major application scenarios of asset trading and credit reference have been online. China Merchants Bank has landed the first domestic blockchain cross-border payment application, and Weizhong bank has shortened the reconciliation time from t + 1 day to t + 0 day through the inter agency reconciliation platform based on blockchain, realizing daily quasi real-time reconciliation
with the graal maturity of blockchain technology innovation and development, the actual effect of instrial application has become more and more obvious
now, the application of blockchain has extended from the financial field to the physical field, including electronic information deposit, right management and trading, proct traceability, digital asset trading, Internet of things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management and other fields. Blockchain technology began to be deeply integrated with the real economy instry, forming a number of "instrial blockchain" projects, ushering in the era of "a hundred flowers bloom" of instrial blockchain
to realize "informatization of cooperation links" and help the real economy rece costs and improve efficiency, Specifically, we can promote the development of traditional instries from two aspects of "cost rection" and "efficiency improvement"
in addition to low cost and high efficiency, blockchain can also realize "trust transfer" or "trust spillover". Based on blockchain technology, since the information on the chain can not be tampered with, after the two parties jointly verify a transaction, the third party can also trust the information, In fact, this kind of trusted state can be transmitted to a third party, and then realize the capitalization of data. In addition, it is very easy for institutions to turn from the "black box" state to the "white box" state, that is, the operational mechanism of institutions is transparent, which makes it very easy to prove their innocence and greatly reces the cost of mutual trust between multi-agent
Further, blockchain will play the role of "improving the efficiency of instrial chain coordination". To improve the level of instrial collaboration is an important way to promote made in China to move towards the middle and high end, and also an important requirement for building a modern economic system. However, in many instries, the efficiency of instrial chain collaboration is still not high, especially in the field of international tradetechnology abuse leads to certain risks in instrial development, which can not be ignored
although the positive value of blockchain technology graally appears, there are still a series of risks that can not be ignored in the process of instrial development. On the one hand, it is compliance risk. In the early stage of the development of blockchain, because it has the property of transmitting value, it has attracted some behaviors that are not focused on technology application, but are keen on illegal fund-raising, pyramid selling and even fraud through ICO (initial token issue)
the instrial policy system has been graally constructed, and the instrial development environment has been continuously optimized. In December 2016, the notice of the State Council on printing and distributing the 13th five year plan for national informatization first mentioned blockchain, and took it together with quantum communication, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, big data cognitive analysis, driverless vehicles and other technologies as key cutting-edge technologies, clearly proposed the need to strengthen the innovation, testing and application of blockchain and other new technologies, In order to seize the leading power of the new generation of information technology. Secondly, relevant instry, national and international standards are also speeding up to solve the key technical standards of blockchain and promote the ecological development of blockchain instry. In order to grasp the development opportunity of blockchain instry and seize the commanding point of blockchain instry development, local governments timely issued blockchain technology and instrial development support policies, which ushered in a new outbreak of blockchain instry
at present, local governments are actively positioning blockchain technology from the perspective of instry and seizing the new opportunities brought by technology upgrading. For example, in March 2018, the Hebei provincial government issued the guiding opinions on accelerating instrial transformation and upgrading and building a modern instrial system, proposing to actively cultivate and develop future instries such as blockchain and build a world-class high-tech instrial cluster
According to the overall plan of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, preventing and defusing major risks is one of the priorities of China's economic work in the next three years, and the key to preventing and defusing major risks is to prevent and control financial risks. Therefore, China also actively strengthens instry supervision, prevents possible financial risks in the process of blockchain development, maintains the stability and security of national finance, and promotes the healthy development of blockchain instry, so as to better play the positive role of blockchain "value Internet"blockchain is a cutting-edge technology, and the new regulatory challenges caused by technology also require the continuous progress of regulatory technology. "Reg tech" (regulatory Technology) in the financial technology segment. It is to use new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain to solve regulatory compliance problems and rece compliance costs. Blockchain filing platform and blockchain based regulatory system all belong to the field of reg tech. There have been companies engaged in regulatory technology in China, which mainly provide regulatory technology solutions for the government, major banks and other financial regulatory agencies. Jinqiu technology, zhongxiangbit and other companies have launched a supervision system based on blockchain
On August 6, 2018, Mr. Cai Yi, financial instry consultant of Huawei Company and founder and CEO of Huaxuan technology, was in daga | blockchain & amp; AI (core group) made a special topic sharing, the theme is: the current situation and Prospect of blockchain finance. The following text is arranged according to the speech of the lecture and has been reviewed by the author
Cai Yi: Consultant of financial instry of Huawei, founder and CEO of Huaxuan science and technology, founder of shared reading association, member of China Writers Association, engaged in financial science and technology research for more than ten years, and is a senior expert in digital transformation of banks
good evening, everyone. I'm very glad and honored to share some thoughts with you here
let's make a simple self introction: my name is Cai Yi. I worked as a writer in my youth. I wrote some books, magazines and novels in the 1990s. At that time, there was no Internet. After work, I have been engaged in the information work of financial instry, from financial channels to data centers, from outlets to technology, witnessed the development of financial technology, and also found some problems. After 2014, I worked as an investment partner and in recent years as a financial instry consultant in Huawei. From the cognitive level, I worked as a consultant for the talent development of digital transformation in the financial instry
in 2015, I started Huaxuan technology and sharing reading club. At present, we mainly focus on the cognition of blockchain and the implementation of financial technology solutions. At the cognitive level, interactive sharing and knowledge management are carried out in the way of book club. At the technical level, the process and scene of the financial instry are reshaped by combining blockchain, big data and AI technologies. I am interested in blockchain and often study and discuss with some friends. Of course, some views are still superficial. I hope you can exchange more criticisms and corrections
the elite think tanks in the United States once believed that the core of maintaining global leadership is science and technology, which must rely on economy, and the core of economy is finance. So what is the future of finance
today's topic is: the current situation and Prospect of blockchain finance. I would like to introce it mainly from three aspects:
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briefly introce finance and financial system
the current situation of blockchain finance
prospect of blockchain finance
First of all, let's talk about the concept of finance. The word "finance" originated from Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868), which is somewhat related to the gold standard established by Japan in 1897. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was introced into China from Japan. It was first proposed by Finance Minister Liang Qichao in 1902. At that time, Zhang Zhidong raised his objection. Therefore, after the Sino Japanese War of 1894, China remained in the silver standard, but it also made China avoid the Great Depression of 1929 The original meaning of finance is "money accommodation", which refers to the circulation of funds in the society. Later, its meaning has been expanded to indicate transactions and economic activities related to money and credit. In fact, there is another reason: gold used to be the only medium in international trade, and its value and wealth were based on gold. Therefore, when making standard gold bars, people need to melt gold into shape, which may be the original meaning of the word "finance", that is, to melt metalFinance is the general name of currency circulation and credit activities and the economic activities associated with them.
let's look at the definition of Finance later: finance is the general name of currency circulation and credit activities and the economic activities associated with them. In a broad sense, finance generally refers to all the economic activities related to the issuance, custody, exchange, settlement and financing of credit currency, Even including the trading of gold and silver, the narrow sense of Finance specifically refers to the credit currency financing
In short, the contents of finance can be summarized as the issuance and withdrawal of money, the absorption and payment of deposits, the issuance and recovery of loans, the trading of gold, silver and foreign exchange, the issuance and transfer of securities, insurance, trust, domestic and international currency settlement, etc. To put it more bluntly, finance has two-way feedback. The institutions engaged in financial activities mainly include banking, insurance, securities, trust, financial leasing, etc. We all know this better and have frequent contact with it. Therefore, to understand the meaning and institutions of finance, we also need to understand China's financial system
2 China's financial system the development of China's financial system can be roughly divided into five stages:
initial formation stage, the first five years (1948-1953): the establishment of the people's Bank of China (1948). At this time, the PBC is far from what we want now. But it marks the beginning of new China's financial institution system
In the second five years (1953-1978), the people's Bank of China (PBC) is the only financial institution in China that deals with all kinds of banking business, integrating the central bank and ordinary banks. In fact, reunification means that we the model of foreign countries. I will not talk about specific countries In the third five years (1979-1983), the Bank of China (established in 1912), the Agricultural Bank of China (established in 1951) and the Construction Bank of China (established in 1954) were restored or established one after another, but the people's Bank of China still integrates currency issuance and credit. We can see that after the reform and opening up, China's financial instry has developed very fastthe diversified financial institution system has begun to take shape. Ten years (from September 1983 to 1993): it has formed a financial institution system with the people's Bank of China as the core, the four major professional banks of instry, agriculture, China and construction as the main body, and other financial institutions coexisting and cooperating. After 1987, there were Bank of communications, China Merchants Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank, CITIC and Hengfeng. In 1988, Ping'an, Guangfa and Xingye appeared. Everbright, Huaxia and Shanghai Pudong Development Co., Ltd. appeared in 1992, and the Securities Regulatory Commission was set up in the same year
the stage of building and improving the social * * market financial institution system (since 1994): it has formed a relatively complete financial institution system with "one bank, three meetings" as the leading role, large, medium and small commercial banks as the main body, and a variety of non bank financial institutions as the auxiliary wing. In 1994, three major policy banks (China Development Bank, Export Import Bank of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China) were established. In 1995, Minsheng Bank, the first private commercial bank, was established (which is of great significance). In 1998, urban commercial banks emerged and CIRC was established. In fact, the CBRC appeared relatively late, and it was only established in 2003. Since then, the pattern of "one party, three meetings" has been formed. However, not long ago, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission merged into the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. You can pay attention to this
from the perspective of evolution, the normative research of finance is often linear
that is, we often take a certain evolution form as the standard (usually developed market economy system, such as the Soviet Union, Germany, the United States and even Japan), describe the progress path of the financial system from non marketization to marketization, from inefficient allocation of financial resources to efficient allocation, and focus on explaining the gap of the standard form and the reasons
In fact, we can find from the development process of China's financial system just now: since 1978, China's financial system has evolved in the direction of marketization, standardization, diversification and internationalization, All kinds of financial institutions show a "network" and "strong connection" business form, that is, the connection degree between banks, banks and other financial institutions, as well as financial sub markets has increased significantly, and the credit connection is increasingly close, mixed and complicatedthe ecological environment of financial instry has also undergone some obvious changes. On the one hand, traditional formal financial institutions seek to speed up transformation and innovation, and strive to seize the opportunity in business strategy, market positioning, management structure, format and proct innovation. On the other hand, a large number of emerging financial institutions have emerged
financial format also presents new characteristics such as real estate financialization, non bank institutions "banking" and asset securitization
The above changes are beyond the imagination of the instry, regulators and policy makers, and will bring a series of impacts:on the positive side, the scale and composition of the financial system have been expanded, the business expansion and financial service capacity of financial institutions have been improved, the financial market has been developed, and innovative payment has developed rapidly. That's what we're going to talk about in financial technology
in a common saying, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. The negative aspects are mainly reflected in the following aspects: the interaction between the
financial system and the real economy tends to be complex, and the role of the financial system in promoting and amplifying asset bubbles is underestimated. p>
the reticulation and strong correlation of the financial system widen the gap between the financial instry and financial supervision, and weaken the effectiveness of traditional supervision. China's current financial supervision system has only been in operation for more than ten years
the transmission path and mechanism of monetary policy through the financial system have changed (the transmission chain of monetary policy has been lengthened or deformed, the conctivity and effectiveness have declined), and the initiative and effectiveness of regulation are facing new constraints. Since its establishment in 1996, the current monetary policy framework has been constantly improved in response to the development of economy and financial market, but the complexity of the financial system in recent years has put it to a new test. Broad money M2 is also impacted by financial deepening, electronic payment and other factors, and further weakened by the shadow banking system
all kinds of cross market, cross business and cross-border behaviors to evade supervision make a variety of risk factors intertwined, such as: capital pool operation with serious mismatch of maturity and procts hides large liquidity risk, proct nesting leads to risk transmission, insufficient shadow banking supervision, local debt, real estate, external shocks, etc., all of which bring great challenges to the stability of the financial system
without comparison, there is no harm, and China's financial system as a whole is relatively backward. This kind of backwardness is mainly reflected in the backwardness of bank innovation: the people's Bank of China announced in October 2015 to abolish the "interest margin protection", while the interest rate of the United States had been completely marketized as early as April 1986, and China was nearly 30 years late
3 the institutional framework and basic problems of China's financial system
Second, the * * third party acts as a credit intermediary to guarantee the realization of asset transfer transactions
the third is the transaction settlement and clearing completed by the centralized clearing organization
Based on this, there are also four problems:1) credit system and trust mechanism. Traditional finance must have strict transaction records to accumulate credit. Without transaction records, it is difficult to achieve financing or loans, because there is no technical means to ensure the safety of transactions between the two sides
(2) transaction settlement takes a long time. The time of traditional financial transactions has been speeding up, but the settlement time is still relatively long, especially for cross-border transactions, which often can not arrive immediately (3) the cost of intermediary service is high. The traditional financial transaction system is very importantBecause the blockchain technology is not mature at this stage, and the infrastructure is not perfect, many applications are limited, and the overall application is still in a very early stage
First of all, the main function of blockchain is to store information. Any information that needs to be saved can be written to or read from the blockchain, so it is a database. Secondly, anyone can set up a server and join the blockchain network to become a node. In the world of blockchain, there is no central node (decentralization). Every node is equal and keeps the whole database. You can write / read data to any node, because all nodes will be synchronized in the end to ensure the consistency of the blockchain