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Marcus Sterling

Emerging Markets & Digital Banking Editor

Marcus covers next-generation banking rails, personal wealth compounding, and the convergence of enterprise cloud infrastructure with treasury management.

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Zero-Knowledge Cryptography and Real-Time Settlement: The New Plumbing of Institutional Finance

Traditional clearinghouses operate with legacy T+1 lags. A quiet revolution in verifiable zero-knowledge proofs is making atomic settlement without privacy compromise a production reality.

Marcus Sterling

5 min read • Sep 06, 2026