ASFA Conference

Blockchain and super: disruptor or helper?

Central Rooms B & C, Ground Floor

This session lifts the lid on Blockchain. By the end of the session you’ll know exactly what it is, and its

potential impact on the super industry.

Blockchain is the common name given to an emerging technology that many believe has the

promise to fundamentally change financial services, including super. It provides a distributed store

of information that can be automated, lessens the roles of intermediaries in the system, improves

transaction speed, and is inherently secure.

Blockchain’s value is ‘disintermediation’—the removal of intermediaries from a system—and the

potential cost savings that it can provide.

A number of super industry participants are also investigating possible uses, with some suggestions

of ‘in market’ uses within 12 months. As a ‘network’ based technology, there is substantially more

value in industry participants working together. We have already built a Superannuation Data Network

(SDN), so will Blockchain enhance the SDN or make it redundant?

Peter Hiom

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, ASX

(Australia)

David Cook

Manager Shared Practice, Sunsuper

(Australia)

@DavidJohnCook

Sarah O’Brien

Interim Executive Officer, GNGB (Australia)

Chair:

Roland Slee

Managing Director APAC, Bravura

Solutions and member, 2016 Conference

Committee (Australia)

Committee coordinator:

Roland Slee

, Managing Director APAC, Bravura Solutions

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