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Blockchain innovation in the finance industry - Blockchain technology offers the potential to make transactions less expensive, more efficient and faster. The technology has a broad range of applications that can be integrated into a variety of businesses, giving investors an extensive range of options. The financial sector is an industry where blockchains have obvious applications and benefits whereby increasing transparency, security, risk management and, in turn, greater disintermediation. If applied correctly, Blockchain technology has the potential to improve the efficiency and security of financial markets thus improving risk controls and, some argue, for a lower cost.
The Self-Sovereign Identity market is worth over $550 billion - meta-analysis from cheqd, an SSI specialist firm, estimates that the potential of the SSI market is approximately $0.55 trillion. This staggering figure reflects the full value of people’s data and its usages. It is based upon areas of opportunity including finance, compliance (KYC), gaming, NFTs, the metaverse, official ID and e-commerce amongst others.
CBDCs inch ever closer to the mainstream - there are more and more initiatives being announced by different jurisdictions for cash-backed Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). As we see greater adoption of cash-backed stablecoins, legislation will need to be updated since citizens travelling abroad will potentially be both carrying and able to spend more money than they are currently legally allowed to do were they carrying cash or using cash to buy and sell goods and services.
The catalyst for institutional assets: Tokenization Prosperity - institutions including EIB, Société Générale, and SWIFT are moving toward asset tokenisation, marking the beginning of institutional adoption. Since compliance and security all boil down to coding on the blockchain, complete and secure technology solutions become the catalyst to bring widespread prosperity to the market which, itself, could reach 24 trillion USD by 2027 according to HSBC.
