Block Chain Report on Finance Industry

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A newly released block chain report about banking was previewed on Business Insider.com.

Questions:

  1. According to Bloomberg, how much money has been poured into block chain technology, annually, as of 2018 within financial institutions?
  2. What are key difficulties or roadblocks associated with block chain application?
  3. What are the companies mentioned in the report?

Source:

Tesfaye, M. (2019). BLOCKCHAIN IN BANKING: An inside look at four banks’ early blockchain successes and failures. Business Insider, June 17 (Retrievable online at https://www.businessinsider.com/the-blockchain-in-banking-report-2019-6)