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Blockchain, a new-age tontine: OCBC chief

Published Sun, Dec 18, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

BLOCKCHAINS, widely seen as the future of finance, may take banking right back into the past.

To OCBC Bank chief Samuel Tsien, a true distributed ledger, if ever implemented, will mirror an old form of financing, the tontine.

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