OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 April 2015, the Blockchain and Open Platforms 2016 Forum organized by the BANKIR.RU was held in Moscow. The event covered the most important areas of the financial sector transformation such as newly developed platform technologies, including blockchain; data interchange and regulatory reporting formats (XRBL), as well as challenges in the IT security sphere and other topical issues.

Representatives of governmental organizations, software developers, leading banks, non-financial credit organizations, retail and telecommunications companies were invited to discuss the issues raised at the forum.

Artyom Duvanov, Chief IT Architect, National Settlement Depository (NSD), spoke at the session “Blockchain and New Technologies”; he presented a report on the use of the distributed ledger technology in the central securities depository. Mr. Duvanov spoke about the company’s experience and success in this area, and provided a detailed description of the prototype of the e-proxy voting service for bond holders meetings based on the blockchain technology.