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Decentralized Futures: Implications for financial institutions

While blockchain adoption was slow in its early years, during the past 12 months or more the financial industry has embraced blockchain much more fully for a broad variety of use cases, including most notably Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), digital assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and the beginnings of Web 3.0.

Read our 2022 point of view paper on Decentralized Futures to discover the latest developments and their implications for financial institutions – decentralized finance (DeFi), central bank digital currency (CBDC), cryptocurrencies, digital assets and tokens, non-fungible tokens (NFT) and the Metaverse, and web 3.0.

At Capgemini, we use a “Future Thinking” approach to constantly monitor, anticipate and assess the evolving technology landscape to help our clients achieve competitive advantage and differentiation. Through a global, dedicated network of capabilities, we constantly track technology domains. “Decentralized Futures,” which encompasses blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, is one of the domains.

This paper provides a financial services perspective on “Decentralized Futures” amid rapid developments in this area. Our aim is to equip business and technology leaders with a clear understanding of key concepts evolving in the decentralized world, highlight the implications to incumbents, and provide a framework to navigate different building blocks of blockchain technology.

Meet our experts

Sudhir Pai

CTIO, Financial Services
Sudhir is the EVP and Chief Technology & Innovation Officer (CTIO) for the Global Financial Services business at Capgemini. He is also a thought leader, speaker, blogger and business advisor for the CXO’s in the finance industry.
Sankar Krishnan

Sankar Krishnan

Digital Assets Head, Capgemini Financial Services

Muhammed Ahmed

Senior Manager, Financial Services
Ahmed leads strategic initiatives around emerging technologies for the global financial services business at Capgemini. As a strategy consultant, he has rich and diverse experience in helping enterprises become future-ready leveraging the power of disruptive technologies such as blockchain, quantum computing, 5G, IoT and metaverse.