CAPABILITY

BLOCKCHAIN
SOLUTIONS FOR FINANCIAL
SERVICES

BLOCKCHAIN
SOLUTIONS

REINVENTING
THE WAY WE LIVE AND WORK

Accenture strives to be at the forefront of blockchain innovation and its practical, real world application.

We provide our clients with a complete view of the blockchain-based technology landscape and its potential business implications. Our global team of experts works with each client to help build smart strategies around effective use-cases, investment and implementation.

Blockchain has the potential to drive profound, positive change. We are working closely with leaders from across a broad range of industries, governments, consortia, the academic community and our key technology alliances to move technology forward so that, ultimately, it can help to improve the way the world lives and works.

BLOCKCHAIN HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DRIVE PROFOUND, POSITIVE CHANGE.

Strategy assessment

Blockchain applicability, business impact and deployment strategy assessment

Blockchain bootcamps

Technology leadership workshops for hands-on, advanced training and rapid prototyping

Blockchain sandboxes

Rapid development environments featuring a suite of blockchain toolsets, customized Proofs of Concept and Proof of Value

Blockchain solution design

Holistic solution design that encompass people, process, operating model and technology

Solution build & implementation

Complex implementation management, third party vendor integration and custom coding

Blockchain assets & solutions

Proprietary software add-ons, such as redaction and key management, including hardened security modules

Accenture entered into an alliance with Digital Asset in 2016. Digital Asset brings 21st century technology to existing financial infrastructure, with a particular focus on post-trade processing.

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Accenture entered into an alliance with Ripple in 2015. Ripple provides the only enterprise distributed financial technology to banks that enables faster, cross-border payments, delivering real-time certainty for every settlement.
Accenture is a premier member of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort to develop blockchain technology for business, with 40+ members across business, financial services and technology.

Explore the impacts and implications
of blockchain on financial services:

Capital Markets

Banking on blockchain: A value analysis for Investment Banks.
Finance & Risk

How blockchain can bring greater value to procure-to-pay processes
Banking

Join the blockchain party.
Cross-Industries

Editing the uneditable
Security

Blockchain has unique security challenges. We have a solution.
Insurance

Three technologies that are changing the financial services game
Cross-Industries

SWIFT and Accenture outline path to Distributed Ledger Technology adoption within financial services
Capital Markets

Blockchain-enabled distributed ledger: Are investment banks ready?
Banking

The role of distributed consensus ledgers in the future of digital payments
Insurance

Will blockchain be the same “bust” as the Internet?

Our world-class Research & Development organization charts a research agenda, explores innovations and delivers client solutions that leverage the most promising emerging technologies and trends.

Our Blockchain Center of Excellence in Sophia Antipolis, France is leading the way in distributed ledger technologies and blockchain solutions across industries and domain specialization (IoT, transactions, voting, messaging, etc.), underpinned by the best underlying technologies from startups, our key alliances and from the open community.

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Blockchain Redaction Explained

Learn how a new redaction capability solves a key blockchain challenge and expands its usefulness for enterprises.

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Blockchain Explained—Part 1

David Treat, Accenture’s Financial Services Blockchain lead, discusses blockchain in capital markets, including the likely next steps for adoption and why the time is right for looking at this new technology.

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Blockchain Explained—Part 2

Listen to Part 2 of this series as David Treat, Accenture’s Financial Services Blockchain lead, explains what investment banks and capital markets firms should know about blockchain, and how they can make the most of this promising new technology.

Richard Lumb

Group Chief Executive
Financial Services

Richard is responsible for all services to clients in the banking, capital markets and insurance industries and for the growth, strategy and financial performance of the financial services group.
Simon Whitehouse

Senior Managing Director Financial
Services, Growth & Strategy

Simon is responsible for developing Accenture’s Financial Service's growth agenda, geographically and within industry sectors. He leads Accenture’s blockchain strategic growth initiative.
David Treat

Managing Director Financial Services
Blockchain Lead

David leads Accenture’s Financial Services Blockchain practice. He has spent the past 20 years in consulting and industry roles, with the last decade focused on capital markets.
Jeremy Light

Managing Director
Payments Lead

Jeremy leads Payment Services in Europe, Africa and Latin America. He specializes in strategy, operating models and architectures that are focused on cards, payments and back-office operations.
Emmanuel Viale

Managing Director
Sophia Antipolis Labs

Emmanuel leads Accenture’s Technology Labs and Blockchain Center of Excellence in Sophia Antipolis, South of France. He and his team work with different blockchain technology stacks/solutions/startups, develop use cases and proofs-of-concepts for a range of different industries.
John Velassarios

Senior Principal – Global Blockchain
Technology Lead

John leads Accenture’s industry teams in developing the firm’s global blockchain delivery capability. He is a sought after industry expert in cryptography, digital currencies, security protocols and solution architecture and implementation.
Marc Carrel-Billiard

Managing Director Global Technology
Research & Development

Marc oversees the Accenture Technology Labs, Accenture's global technology R&D organization, which explores new and emerging technologies in locations around the globe and directs Accenture Open Innovation and Accenture’s annual Technology Vision research.
Mike Redding

Managing Director Strategic
Technology Innovation

Mike is responsible for a portfolio of strategic minority investments in growth stage technology companies to support Accenture’s business strategy, and is an accomplished executive with a track record of applying technology innovation to address business challenges.
Chris Brodersen

Research Lead
Blockchain and Capital Markets

Chris leads Accenture’s research and thought leadership efforts related to blockchain, and regularly works with clients around the globe to educate them on blockchain applications and use cases.