Writing an opinion piece on CoinDesk the Managing Director and CTO of the DTCC Rob Palatnick explores the progress of blockchain technology in finance; he says that while we are still in early days of implementation the industry has learned how important collaboration is to mitigate risk, enhance efficiencies and drive down cost; working together will help to avoid the many silos that exist today and allow for blockchain technology to reach its potential; he also looks at some of the recent consortiums and the work the DTCC has done so far in the space. Source.