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ABSTRACT
There is prevalent conformity that the technology has to deliver value across the entire financial value chain.
powerful potential to herald a new age of efficiency in Blockchain has become a buzzword
buz in the financial
the financial service industry. Blockchain is services industry, attracting billions in venture capital
undeniably one of the most talked-about
about technologies investment from some of the largest firms across the
in the present financial service industry. Blockchain financial services landscape. Currently the most
has the potential to provide extraordinary transaction prevalent blockchain application in the financial
security through cryptography
tography that avoids costly industry is the Bitcoin Blockchain. For instance,
mainframes, data centers and other intermediaries for digital wallet AliPay is adding a bitcoin option for its
online financial transactions. Banks and other customers. Visa has partnered with an enterprise
financial service organizations have already blockchain infrastructure to build Visa B2B Connect
experimenting with cryptocurrency and Blockchain and to facilitate international financial transactions for
technology. It is expected that Blockchain
lockchain have major their corporate
ate clients. In India, the legalization of
impact, especially on financial services industry due bitcoin is a hotly-contested
contested policy issue between the
to its ability to reduce transaction costs. Financial Ministry of Finance, which would like to tax it, and
services firms have also entered the blockchain space the Reserve Bank of India, which has declared bitcoin
as investors, with corporate venture capitalists illegal and in breach of anti-money
anti laundering
becoming the most active investors in bitcoin and provisions.
isions. The Indian situation is an example of how
blockchain technology. With this article I have made distributed ledger technology has the power to act as a
an attempt to present the concept of Blockchain disrupter, but also as an enabler to market players,
technology and its essentials, impact of Blockchain changing business models and influencing the
technology on the financial services sector. governance of the global financial system.
Keywords: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency,
ryptocurrency, The Blochchain is a secure transaction ledger
Distributed Ledger System, Fintech, Financial Service database shared by all parties in a distributed network,
Industry, Digital Money. which records and stores every transaction that occurs
in the network. It creates an irrevocable and auditable
1. INTRODUCTION
transaction history. Blockchain could reduce redu the
In the present era of electronic and mobile banking,
friction created in financial networks when different
money is transforming from something we hold in our
intermediaries use different technology infrastructures
hand to electronic digits we move around the internet.
and it also reduces the need for intermediaries to
Electronic or digital forms of money are rapidly
validate financial transactions. This distributed ledger
replacing the traditional paper money and coins
coins. The
technology has potential to shrink shr duplicative
emergence of innovative digital financial technologies
recordkeeping, remove reconciliation, curtail the
have challenged traditional players in the banking and
errors and facilitates faster settlement, in turn leads to
financial services sector by demonstrating new ways
less risk and lower capital requirements. Blockchain
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4. Conclusion References:
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There is an assurance that distributed ledger or
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savings through greater transparency and efficiency.
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