Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies impacting financial transactions and financial services

One can clearly observe that, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies are disintermediating financial transactions and disrupting financial services; they also have the potential to disintermediate and disrupt data management, integration and governance processes and technologies, thereby making data trusted, available, secure, and compliant for everyone.

IDC believes that blockchain innovations will provide data with integrity: data that is trusted, secure, compliant, and available to all parties that have an interest.