Sarah Giannelli, Author at Trakti

Digital inheritance: how blockchain and smart contracts can secure the transfer of rights to digital assets

on May 27, 2024

Business is going digital and digitisation has spread throughout all areas of private law, including inheritance law. “Digital inheritance” is a term in law, and refers to the transfer of rights to digital assets.
A Digital asset can be defined as a personal property owned by an individual which is stored in a digital form, therefore any digital data that a person leaves, after his death, stored on diverse types of digital devices and in the cloud. This includes a multitude of digital formats and their respective metadata: from your online accounts, including banking information, to social media passwords.

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Advantages of the no code approach for Legaltech

on May 26, 2024

The no-code movement is a trend that can also offer a lot of potential benefits for the legal and administration sectors.
According to Gartner, no-code and low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity by 2024.
No-code platforms can revolutionise the way legaltech approaches its internal innovation and automation of key tasks.
No-code tools and technologies can help lawyers to efficiently drive their business.
This is certainly a challenge with regards to user experience, as no code applications transform and simplify the way we can all interact with the interface of an app or software.

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Open banking and contractual automation to reduce financial management costs

on March 12, 2024

Open Banking is an innovative model for banks and the financial industry. We can define open banking as a digital technology that revolutionised banks and financial services. Its aim is to establish, support, and strengthen clients’ trust. It allows banks to offer more agile financial services to their customers, helping them to make better decisions, and save money.

When Open banking comes with contractual automation, it can reduce financial management costs.

Digital disruption, FinTechs and Regulatory compliance such as the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) have accelerated the competition in the financial sector and forced banks to open and speed up their systems.

APIs are used for sharing financial data in the open banking ecosystem. Using API, banks can now remodel and innovate their core systems.

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How Smart contracts will affect Procurement

on October 16, 2023

The role of procurement relies on making decisions quickly.
The quality of his decisions is based on the quality of his data and this is where Smart contracts can have a decisive effect on procurement.
A Smart contract is executable code in a transactional environment, such as a blockchain which allows the simple streamlining of business services.
The procurement functions can widely benefit by adopting Smart contracts based on blockchain technology.
The inner characteristics of this technology, as speed, efficiency, transparency and immutability, offer exclusive benefits.

In this article we will examine how Smart contracts can affect procurement.

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The Hidden Cost of Disruptive Events: Managing Risks and Ensuring Supply Chain Resilience

on May 28, 2023

Maintaining business continuity requires managing threats and the risk of business disruption. Disruptive events can stem from financial, operational, cyber, ESG, natural disasters, and supply chain disruptions.
Predicting disruptive events can be challenging, especially when referring to unknown risks that can arise suddenly.
Organisations can reduce risk exposure and even eliminate the impact of a particular type of risk event through careful planning, the use of tools, and the adoption of effective risk management processes.

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NFT and copyright: why you need a Smart legal contract to cover all the elements

on May 5, 2023

NFTs are business keys of the future “metaverse”. The Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) indicate a digital certificate of authenticity to uniquely identify a digital product created on the internet.
Each NFT contains a unique serial number, known as a hash. This cryptographic key is generated from a specific digital file and makes NFTs traceable and incapable of duplication.

However, while technological progress advances, a review of the protection system is required to follow digital development and to guarantee legal protection, even to NFTs.

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The Smart lawyers Guide to Galaxy

on March 2, 2023

Looking into the future we’re on the road to a new world where everything is linked and potentially possible.
People get connected with other people physically, through avatars, online tools, and any element that belongs to this new world. Rather than one device handling every calculation, a network of devices can now do this instead, benefitting of the cooperation of an entire network.
Every data is accessible, every service is sensing, automated, connected and shared…
We are on a new planet where industries totally shifted from inflexible, monolithic methods to more modular and microservices approaches.

But let’s imagine moving forward in time for a sec.

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Sarah Giannelli