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What is Syndicated Loan

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Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities of Blockchain Technology in Banking and Insurance
It is a loan that is provided by multiple lenders on a single contract where one of the lenders is generally the lead lender or underwriter that administers the loan. Such credit facilities are extended when the loan amount is too high.
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Blockchain Technology and Future Banking: Opportunities and Challenges
Derya Üçoğlu (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4133-6.ch003
Abstract
In recent years, the blockchain emerged as a trending technology, and the innovations introduced by blockchain technology have influenced financial services as well as other sectors. The banks are currently using several blockchain applications, but they are not mature and still not widely adopted. Despite the numerous benefits, blockchain has many challenges to be solved, such as lack of regulation and governance; energy and other costs of development and implementation; interoperability, technical, security, and privacy problems; and user-related challenges. Therefore, this chapter aims to overview blockchain technology and discuss the opportunities and challenges for the future banking sector concerning the extant literature.
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