Ryan Rugg, Author at IBM Blog

Ryan Rugg

Ryan is currently a Partner at IBM responsible for the America's blockchain team, helping to enhance client’s solutions and capabilities for building Digital Ecosystems. She provides strategic guidance for; operational and governance considerations, technology roadmaps, and services infrastructure to help clients. In Ryan's prior role she was the Global Head of the Industry business unit at the enterprise software firm, R3, where she sat at the forefront of blockchain innovation across multiple industries, working closely with several fortune 500 companies to help build and scale their solutions. In addition, Ryan has extensive FSS experience spending 14 years on Wall Street working at Lehman, Morgan Stanley and JPM.

Blockchain December 16, 2021

Take digital assets into the enterprise with blockchain

4 min read - Digital assets have been ubiquitous in the news these days: cryptocurrencies, stablecoins or non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to name a few. Their applications are even more varied, from representing financial instruments to safeguarding authenticity and ownership of digital IP or physical…

Navigating the broader digital asset and cryptocurrency markets

4 min read - The cryptocurrency and broader digital assets evolution has continued to grow in earnest, showing promising signs of maturity through 2021 as industry-wide regulatory bills have reached the Senate floor in Washington D.C. while prices have appreciated to new all-time highs.…

Fueling the financial industry with open source cross-border payments

3 min read - Financial services, payments, streamlining inefficient processes is in our blood. So, it’s no surprise my colleague and contributor to this article, Nitin Gaur and his team, tackled the unthinkable four years ago by building a global payment network addressing remittance…

Making sense of digital assets

4 min read - Bitcoin, tokens, Ethereum, and stable coins oh my! These are a few names and phrases you may frequently hear when attempting to understand the emerging digital asset class. CNBC now lists the price of Bitcoin on its ticker but what…

Digital assets, a new paradigm for financial services

3 min read - I always know when interest in digital assets is heating up because everyone from my family, friends and colleagues, to the mailperson start asking me questions on how to get involved. You’re probably asking yourself; but why now? Bitcoin has…