Understanding smart legal contracts – a computer protocol intended to digitally facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of any agreement between participants on the blockchain.
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Can automation solve the hold-up problem in contracts?
on July 20, 2021A hold-up problem in contracts is the situation where after one party has made some relationship-specific investment, the counterparty refuses to fulfil the original terms of the contract asking for better conditions.
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Digitisation of EIB bonds on Ethereum Blockchain
on July 13, 2021A few months ago, the EIB launched a digital bond issuance on Ethereum, deploying this distributed ledger technology for the registration and settlement of digital bonds, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs, Santander and Societe Generale.
Let’s see what this means for finance.
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Decentralization over blockchain infrastructures: the property-contract interface
on July 13, 2021Decentralization over blockchain infrastructures is a fundamental aspect in the adoption of the technology and is the main reason why it has acquired increasing importance in the last decade. The technology emerged to implement peer to peer transactions of digital money that could displace commercial banks’ gatekeeping of digital transactions of bank deposits and central banks’ monopoly over the value (and therefore supply) of fiat money. And it has gone a long way since then.
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Understanding flexibility in smart contracts vs traditional contracts
on July 8, 2021Before digging into the lack of flexibility in smart contracts let’s see what flexibility actually is.
Traditional semantic contracts are flexible. Such flexibility operates during the negotiation phase as well as at breach.
Flexibility allows parties to use ambiguous terms, generally defined terms, commercial customs in their agreements.
Furthermore, flexibility enables parties to shape and adapt their business relationship through modifications, amendments, sometimes arbitrarily.
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How smart contracts will speed up production onboarding and checks
on July 8, 2021Solutions that utilize smart contracts have the potential to speed up production onboarding and checks and offer new opportunities to reduce sourcing risk, decrease administration cost, and improve stakeholder engagement.
In an increasingly digitised world, emerging technologies, such as blockchain, afford organisations the opportunity to drive business value by streamlining production onboarding and checks.
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Obligation management and controls with Smart Legal Contracts
on June 30, 2021Contract obligation management and controls with smart legal contracts offer a more secure and streamlined way to achieve an effective and automated contract management system.
Contract management has long been the norm for many industries looking to streamline their supplier and vendor relations. However, the process of managing contract creation, execution, and analysis has historically been plagued by inefficiencies and error due to the manual work involved. That is why we’re seeing a new standard in the form of contract obligation management and control with smart legal contracts.
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