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By Jean DIEDERICH, partner, Alessandro ZAMBONI, partner, Anna MORELLI, analyst, Wavestone Luxembourg
Why is everyone talking about blockchain? A quick search on Google for the term ‘blockchain’ provides around 219,000,000 results in less than a second. Given this notoriety of the word, one would assume that applications of blockchain technology should be widely spread across the market. Whilst this is not yet the case in most industries, the financial services have benefited from a larger proportion of blockchain than most. Back in 2008, the primary purpose of blockchain was to serve as the public transaction ledger of the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
Having said that, it’s important to note that blockchain is just one of the existing types of distributed...
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