Categories: News

Deloitte: Financial institutions to boost future blockchain spending

A representative from the company expects 2021 to be “a breakout year for blockchain.”

Many financial institutions are poised to increase their blockchain spending in 2021, according to an upcoming survey from Deloitte titled “Financial Services Industry Outlooks 2020.”

Preliminary results shared with Cointelegraph indicate that 27% of the institutions surveyed expect a “slight increase in spend” for blockchain and distributed ledger technology, while 14% are expecting a large increase. A further 33% expect no change, with the remaining 27% looking to cut their expenditure slightly.

The survey was held between July and August 2020. Respondents included 800 senior executives at financial institutions — banks, payments companies, insurance companies, hedge funds, and other investment companies. The companies were required to have posted at least $1 billion in revenue in 2019 to be included in the survey.

The survey grouped blockchain with a variety of other emerging technologies. While it was not the most popular overall, the technology appears to be quite polarizing: The percentage of institutions that expect a large expenditure increase is the second-highest in the sample, with just cloud computing edging slightly ahead at 15%.

Conversely, only robotic process automation left more institutions unimpressed, as 35% of them expect to wind down their expenditure. Artificial intelligence is a close third, with 26% of respondents expecting to reduce investment.

Financial institutions may also be looking to boost investment in data privacy and cybersecurity — fields that could potentially employ a number of blockchain-based solutions.

Commenting on the report, Richard Walker, head of Deloitte’s financial services blockchain team, said that 2021 will be “a break-out year for blockchain and digital ledger technologies.”

Following years of promises and expectations, “People will be surprised by the perceived speed and impact in this space next year,” he added.

The report follows a similarly positive survey conducted by Deloitte in February, which noted that 39% of companies worldwide already had blockchain technology integrated in production.

[…]
Learn more

crypto

Leave a Comment

Recent Posts

The Governor of the Banque de France obtains the prestigious Tulip Prize

The Tulip Prize [1] was awarded yesterday to François Villeroy de Galhau for a speech…

2 years ago

United States: The offensive of a group of senators against cryptocurrencies

Senator Elizabeth Warren, supported by other senators, today introduced a bill titled the “Digital Asset…

2 years ago

Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky signs a law "on virtual assets"

President Volodymyr Zelensky today signed the “virtual assets” law adopted by the Ukrainian parliament on…

2 years ago

US: A central bank digital dollar project

Joe Biden today signed an executive order asking the federal government to assess the risks…

2 years ago

Ethereum: 100,000 transactions per second

After the implementation of the Ethereum blockchain in the consensus Proof-of-Stake model called “Beacon Chain”,…

2 years ago

First major correction of 2021 for cryptos

It hung in the face of investors, this correction. And if the movements of Bitcoin…

3 years ago