Smart Contracts in Land Administration

Smart Contracts in Land Administration

VP Todd Miller together with co-authors Rohan Bennett and Mark Pickering from Swinburne University of Technology (AUS) and Al-Karim Kara, the President and CEO of the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (CA) published a paper “Hybrid Approaches for Smart Contracts in Land Administration: Lessons from Three Blockchain…

Residential Real Estate Securitization Through 
the Eyes of the Blockchain

Residential Real Estate Securitization Through the Eyes of the Blockchain

Back in 2016, as I was about to leave Fannie Mae, the company was developing a securitization platform with its primary competitor, Freddie Mac. Today the Common Securitization Platform (the firms aren’t known for their creative branding) issues a uniform mortgage-backed security (UMBS). Mortgage-backed securities are an investment instrument backed…