Quel sera le rôle de la blockchain dans les transactions financières futures ?

Abstract

In a constantly changing world, recent technological innovations are flooding the market and changing the financial landscape. It is in this context that a technology appears, the blockchain. This one seems so promising that some people do not hesitate to talk about a real revolution, like the one of the Internet in its time. At the end of my master's degree in finance, my choice of thesis naturally focused on the role of the blockchain in future financial transactions. This paper has several objectives: first, to better understand what this new technology represents, its characteristics and its implications in the financial world. The next step is to identify the different applications in the field of finance. Then, a series of interviewees helped me to highlight the different barriers that could slow down the development of the blockchain. At the end of this research, it appears that the blockchain can potentially upset the way we do business because of its characteristics, namely: immutability, transparency, decentralization, ... However, close collaboration between all the actors concerned is necessary, but may be problematic.