The Biggest Fintech, Blockchain, & Cybersecurity Trends in 2018

With 2017 coming to an end, we can get a glimpse of what's yet to come in the next 12 months through the number of investments and product testing. It's no surprise that financial institutions were the first players to experiment with blockchain technology since 2014 and became active investors in the space that totalled $4.5 billion of funding in 2017. In the past few years, financial institutions were testing blockchain technology and working on proof of concepts. By 2017, this largely moved into production stages. In 2017, a group of 11 international banks developed a trade finance application using R3 technology.