Our Work

Clients and Experience

Our clients

Our clients are at differing stages of their journey with blockchain technology, and within each client there are widely varying levels of understanding of this topic. At the outset, there is a need to understand to an extent how this technology works, but more importantly why we think it will have an impact on money, computing, identity, and the internet. Building on this understanding, we focus on the key areas for our clients, which may be at the level of financial infrastructure, moving money and other assets around, or building new products and services using blockchains.

Our advisory work depends very much on the client's context and their needs, and we aim to be pragmatic and realistic as to what should be done. There are great philosophical "what if" debates to be had, but during business hours we prefer to focus on "what next".

Example projects

Without naming names where the work is not public, some examples follow of the kind of work we do.

Paul led the team who wrote the first Project Khokha report for the South African Reserve Bank's first experiment with Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). With Block Markets Africa, he also worked on PK2 and the extension of that work, PK2.x, into a blockchain sandbox for the largest South African banks and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Working with large South African banks to develop educational material around the origins of money, banking and blockchain, and educating compliance and risk teams on the implications of cryptocurrency.
Working with large banks to develop elements of their blockchain strategies, providing decision support material for executive teams and providing contextual backing to the strategy development process.
Development of the strategic rationale and business case for a large asset manager to develop a collateralised lending model based on digital assets, building the client’s understanding in parallel with the business case.