 The state of play of blockchain technology in the financial services sector: A systematic literature reviewOmar Ali, Mustafa Ally, Clutterbuck, and Yogesh Dwivedi International Journal of Information Management, 2020, vol. 54, issue C Abstract: The modern trends of digitalization have completely transformed and reshaped business practices, whole businesses, and even a number of industries. Blockchain technology is believed to be the latest advancement in industries such as the financial sector, where trust is of prime significance. Blockchain technology is a decentralized and coded security system which provides the capability for new digital services and platforms to be created through this emerging technology. This research presents a systematic review of scholarly articles on blockchain technology in the financial sector. We commenced by considering 227 articles and subsequently filtered this list down to 87 articles. From this, we present a classification framework that has three dimensions: blockchain-enabled financial benefits, challenges, and functionality. This research identifies implications for future research and practice within the blockchain paradigm. Keywords: Blockchain technology; Blockchain benefits; Blockchain challenges; Blockchain functionality; Financial technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ininma:v:54:y:2020:i:c:s0268401219310928 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102199 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Information Management is currently edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi More articles in International Journal of Information Management from Elsevier |
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