More governments facilitating crypto business or adopting blockchain to ease regulatory burden for businesses

More governments facilitating crypto business or adopting blockchain to ease regulatory burden for businesses… HK again is conspicuous by its inactivity, see below two developments:

1. Switzerland Considers Granting CryptoBusinesses Access to Banking Services

• Swiss regulators and financiers are working to remove the obstacles: Setting up a taskforce and a set of standards for ICO startups in order for Crypto companies to receive banking services in Switzerland

• Switzerland is under pressure as competition from Malta, Gibraltar and Singapore becomes fierce… as they pulled out all stops to attract Crypto companies

• With a vision of becoming a Crypto Nation, both the government and banks recognize the benefits … and wish to promote Switzerland as a financial and technology hub

2. The State of Delaware awarded IBM$738,000 to create a blueprint for their blockchain based corporate filingsystem

• In 2016, the former governor of Delaware had the ambition to embrace blockchain technology by adding the state’s public archives to a blockchain

• legislation was introduced in 2017 to support blockchain which allow companies to keep their corporate records on the blockchain in order to maintain accurate data. IBM will design the blueprints for what could become Delaware's future blockchain-based corporate filing system

近年，外國政府正積極通過放寬法律限制來推動加密貨幣及區域鏈發展，對比之下香港顯得相形見絀，見以下兩則新聞；

1. 瑞士正考慮容許加密貨幣公司使用銀行服務

• 瑞士政府及金融界人士正積極為加密貨幣開路；包括委任專責人士及設立一系列首次代幣發行標準，讓相關公司能夠使用銀行服務。
• 馬爾他、直布羅陀、新加坡等國正不斷為加密貨幣業立法開路，瑞士的領導地位面臨巨大挑戰。
• 瑞士政府及銀行希望透過加密貨幣來鞏固瑞士金融科技中心的地位，把瑞士打造成加密貨幣王國。

2. 特拉華州與IBM達成價值七十多萬美元的區域鏈相關合同，為特拉華州建立企業內容管理系統

• 前州長在兩年前大力推動區域鏈相關發展，為州內公眾文件建立區域鏈。
• 政府在2017年立法容許公司利用區域鏈來保存企業檔案，以增加資料準確性。IBM將為特州建立企業內容管理系統區域鏈。