There has been a tremendous amount of discussion, white papers, excitement and debate over the past few years about the potential of blockchain technology to transform the financial services industry and beyond. The World Economic Forum has identified blockchain as one of its six megatrends.
But the only thing that is clear at the moment is that there is still a lot of work to be done to implement wide scale use cases, clear up any regulatory uncertainly or barriers and educate institutions and employees about the technology and its potential. Until recently, most of the discussion and pilots have been focused on banking.
