
May 24, 2016 Profiles in Innovation
Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research 2
Table of Contents
Portfolio Manager’s summary 2
What is blockchain? 8
Putting Blockchain to Work: Seven Case Studies 12
Case Study 1: Accelerating the Sharing Economy with reputation management 13
Case Study 2: Building a distributed Smart Grid with blockchain 24
Case Study 3: Reducing transaction costs in real estate title insurance 33
Case Study 4: Capital markets – US cash equities 44
ASX: A real-world blockchain testbed for post-trade services 54
Case Study 5: Capital markets – Repo 56
Case Study 6: Capital markets – Leveraged loan trading 62
Case Study 7: AML and KYC Compliance 71
Blockchain innovators: Select private companies 78
Blockchain innovators: Public company enablers 79
Disclosure Appendix 85
This is the fourth report in our Profiles in Innovation series analyzing how emerging technologies are
creating profit pools and disrupting old ones. Access the entire series below and visit our portal to see
related resources, including a video on blockchain’s potential.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Drones
Factory of the Future
Payments / Fintech Financials Energy Lodging / Leisure Management
James Schneider, Ph.D. Alexander Blostein, CFA Brian Lee, CFA Steven Kent, CFA Robert Boroujerdi
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Jordan Fox Ingrid Groer, CFA Michael Lapides Lara Fourman
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Pierre Safa Conor Fitzgerald Hank Elder
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Eric Beardsley, CFA
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Grayson Barnard, CFA
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