Blockchain subverts traditional finance

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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 metal

Finance 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 fast

the 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 complicated

the 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 important

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Blockchain technology has the advantages of being difficult to tamper with and easy to trace. It can play a role in identity information management, trust mechanism construction, and credit information chain of small and micro enterprises

here is an example of a bank in Nanping:

e to the outbreak of online business, the original offline signing method has been unable to meet the needs of the rapid change of the banking business, and the bank's digital construction is imminent, but the bank's risk control department has strict compliance requirements:

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online business data sensitive privacy, Is the transmission secure

does the electronic signature have legal effect

can electronic evidence be accepted by the court

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these concerns have become obstacles for banks to introce e-contracts and carry out business digital transformation

after adopting the unique ENA initiative forensics patent technology of the "real hammer" trusted electronic evidence platform, a bank in Nanping, through the clean server of the notary office, online carries out real-time preservation, storage and certification of the electronic data of the target system, records the whole process of the electronic data from generation, transmission to storage, and finally the notary office issues the forensics preservation report with official seal, The effectiveness of the documents is notarial documents, which can be directly accepted by the court. Because the report is issued by the notary office, it has more credibility than the self certification of the third-party E-contract platform, which solves the concerns of the risk control department of the bank at one stroke. The whole process is online and automated, and the front-end customer operation has no perception

at the same time, combined with the back-end case system of "real hammer" and the outsourcing execution service, the bank realized the rapid dispute resolution of Internet business. It not only ensures the compliance and effectiveness of the electronic contract signing process, but also solves the problem that the bank cases are scattered all over the country and the cost of legal business trip is high; The litigation cycle is long and there is no efficient disposal channel

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Blockchain finance is actually the application of blockchain technology in the financial field

blockchain is an underlying technology based on bitcoin, and its essence is actually a decentralized trust mechanism. Through sharing in distributed nodes to maintain a sustainable database, the security and accuracy of information can be achieved. The application of this technology can solve the trust and security problems in the transaction, and the blockchain technology has become an optional direction for the future upgrading of the financial instry. Through the blockchain, both parties of the transaction can carry out economic activities without the help of the third-party credit intermediary, so as to rece the cost of the global transfer of assets

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since 2016, the major financial giants have also heard the news and launched blockchain innovation projects one after another to explore the possibility of applying blockchain technology in various financial scenarios. In particular, Puyin group took the lead in creating a "blockchain +" standard digital currency. Standard digital currency refers to the process of assets identification, evaluation, right confirmation and insurance completed by a third party organization. After careful digital algorithm, it is written into the blockchain to form the standard corresponding relationship between assets and digital currency, which is called standard digital currency

in order to realize the great leap forward development of blockchain finance, promote the new development of China's economy, accelerate the global asset circulation, and realize the dream of rejuvenation that has been struggling for generations, Puyin group will hold the Guiyang strategic development ceremony of Puyin blockchain finance in Guizhou on December 9, 2016, at which the discussion on the realization of digital circulation of assets, block chain financial transaction mode, and block chain financial transaction mode will be held It also discusses the application of blockchain service and social public instry

4. Sun Yuchen believes that the continuous updating and application of digital technology has brought great changes to the world economic pattern. Blockchain technology with self-confidence, tamper proof, traceability, trust network and other attributes, breaks the time and space constraints between the various economic elements. In addition, the digital economy reacts fast, and finally the multi-agent linkage of the digital economy. These are the places that traditional finance cannot compare.

5. Blockchain is a revolutionary underlying technology. Its original function is bookkeeping. As a distributed general ledger, it can solve the credit problem, notarization problem, audit problem, right confirmation problem, etc. of the ledger, as well as the digital demand of physical assets. Blockchain application scenarios are characterized by "new database, multi business entities and mutual distrust". The financial instry has the characteristics of low trust among participants and high requirements for transaction record security and completeness, which is very consistent with the application characteristics of blockchain technology. Therefore, the financial services instry is one of the instries with the most blockchain technology landing projects and the most abundant scenarios, such as supply chain finance, asset securitization, credit reference and risk control. In the financial field, blockchain technology can not only reform the financial infrastructure, but also play a synergistic role in the scenes of supervision, transaction, credit reference, virtual currency and so on. For example, in the traditional financial environment, supervision is managed by reporting data from various business organizations, which will cause many disadvantages, such as "black box" operation, decision-making delay and so on. However, under blockchain finance, with the advantages of information transparency and penetration and regional centralization, the regulatory authorities can grasp all business information at the first time. At present, Internet financial companies such as fox financial services are vigorously developing blockchain technology. Through the characteristics of decentralized blockchain technology and distributed storage, they can enhance user information management and enhance regulatory efficiency.

6. It's about six years now, worth hundreds of millions of yuan. But what you're talking about is if, in fact, if not, bitcoin's first virtual currency purchase is like spending more than 100 pieces to buy a hamburger. No one knows that bitcoin will be so valuable today

7. What should we do if we can't exchange currency for foreign exchange? You can go to the Bank of China to exchange foreign exchange

8. The relationship between technology and traditional enterprises is just like proctivity and proction relations. Technology is undoubtedly a proctive force. If an enterprise's proction relations do not want to make progress and do not adapt to the development of proctive forces, it is doomed to failure< On the contrary, an enterprise that always grasps and adapts to the development of proctivity will always maintain its strong vitality. So, in the face of the attack of cognitive computing and blockchain technology, whether traditional financial institutions will seize the opportunity of overtaking and development on the curve is still an unknown< However, the mature projects of blockchain are bitcoin, Ethereum and dent.

9. Bit light, from 0.4 to 5.8, is less than a month

10. The "subversion" brought by the Internet to traditional finance is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
1. Beyond the boundary
the boundary mentioned here includes not only the geographical boundary, but also the crowd boundary, and also the time boundary. Traditional banks can only serve the area around the network, while Internet finance is directly for everyone. Traditional banks pay more attention to big customers, big enterprises and rich people, while Internet Finance emphasizes more inclusive services, and the service threshold is directly reced to 100 yuan. The business hours of traditional banking outlets are "nine to five", while Internet finance can submit business requests at any time. In a word, Internet finance is going beyond the boundary of traditional financial services. Its ultimate goal is that anyone, anytime, anywhere, and any connected device can enjoy the most timely and high-quality financial services
2. Rebuild rules
every time the Internet enters an instry, it will subvert an instry. Why? Because Internet companies do not play cards according to common sense, dare and are good at rebuilding rules and ecology. This is what we often hear about cross-border looting and disruptive innovation. The logic behind it is very simple: reshape the instrial chain through Internet innovation, rebuild the rules of the game that are good for you, and force existing enterprises to obey the new rules
3. Profit after income
it is one of the core survival rules for Internet enterprises to enclosure land first and then make money. In order to circle people, Internet companies do not hesitate to spend money. All kinds of money wars are real cases. Internet companies bring this kind of play to the financial field, so that traditional financial institutions can not cope. Yu'ebao and wechat wallet have reached hundreds of millions of users in a very short period of time. Traditional banks dare not even think about it
the Internet has not only changed the form of financial services, but also changed the income model of financial institutions. Although the core of Internet finance is finance, we must not ignore the subversive significance of Internet to traditional finance. Future financial institutions, do not understand the financial will die, do not understand the Internet will die more miserable!