8 May 2019

Blockchain and the consumer industry: recent developments and predictions for 2019

Blockchain is posed to bring many challenges and opportunities to the consumer industry and, here, we review some of the main trends that lie in store this year.

  

Last year was a year of unprecedented disruption and transformation in the consumer industry, and 2019 promises challenges of a similar or greater magnitude. Here, we explore the main trends that lie in store in respect of blockchain this year.

  

Payment settlements

New for 2019 will be the use of private, permissioned, distributed ledger technology systems to settle payments among large entities.

Supply chain