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Blockchain in Financial Services

Blockchain technology is expected to revolutionalize how our industries and enterprises operate. Experts estimate that it will business process flows and enable organizations to build products and services that are more secure, transparent, fraud-resistant, and cost-efficient. Banking and financial enterprises and start-ups have been the first to experiment with and adopt this disruptive technology. Reports and surveys suggest that, within the next decade, these organizations will go through rapid stages of innovation to establish blockchain as the Backbone for their day-to-day operations and the services they offer to their customers. In this book, we'll be looking at some prominent applications of this technology for the banking and finance industry through projects. Each project is implemented using a popular distributed ledger platform...

Key benefits

Implement various end-to-end blockchain projects and learn to enhance present-day financial solutions

Use Ethereum, Hyperledger, and Stellar to build public and private decentralized applications

Address complex challenges faced in the BFSI domain using different blockchain platform services

Description

Blockchain technology will continue to play an integral role in the banking and finance sector in the coming years. It will enable enterprises to build transparent and secure business processes. Experts estimate annual savings of up to 20 billion dollars from this technology. This book will help you build financial apps using blockchain, guiding you through enhancing popular products and services in the banking and finance sector. The book starts by explaining the essential concepts of blockchain, and the impact of blockchain technology on the BFSI sector. Next, you'll delve into re-designing existing banking processes and building new financial apps using blockchain. To accomplish this, you'll work through eight blockchain projects. By demonstrating the entire process, the book helps you understand everything from setting up the environment and building frontend portals to system integration and testing apps. You will gain hands-on experience with the Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Stellar to develop private and public decentralized apps. Finally, you'll learn how to use ancillary platforms and frameworks such as IPFS, Truffle OpenZeppelin, and MetaMask. By the end of this blockchain book, you'll have an in-depth understanding of how to leverage distributed ledgers and smart contracts for financial use cases.

What you will learn

Design and implement blockchain solutions in a BFSI organization Explore common architectures and implementation models for enterprise blockchain Design blockchain wallets for multi-purpose applications using Ethereum Build secure and fast decentralized trading ecosystems with Blockchain Implement smart contracts to build secure process workflows in Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric Use the Stellar platform to build KYC and AML-compliant remittance workflows Map complex business workflows and automate backend processes in a blockchain architecture

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