Accenture Partners with Digital Asset Holdings, Launches Blockchain Consulting Practice
Accenture has launched a specialized practice within its financial services group to help institutions implement blockchain technology in order to improve operational efficiency, security and client service, as well as to capture new revenue opportunities. Accenture will provide a range of consulting and technology services, from feasibility studies,....
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Leading global professional services company Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is launching a blockchain consulting practice to help prepare the financial services industry. In partnership with Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings, the new firm will work with institutions implementing distributed ledger technology to improve security, efficiency, client services,....
The main reason a partnership between Digital Asset Holdings and Accenture is so important is because consulting and system integration services will be provided to clients exploring the blockchain space. Digital Asset Holdings is one of those companies who keep making media headlines these days. The blockchain startup, led by Blythe Masters, has recently signed a strategic business deal with Accenture. As a result of this collaboration, Digital Asset Holdings will gain additional resources and expertise while partnering companies will get access to their distributed ledger technology....
Blockchain technology developer Digital Asset Holdings has revealed new ‘strategic business relationships’ with consulting and technology services firm Accenture, financial services firm Broadridge and one of the ‘Big Four’ in auditing and services network PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In a press release today, New York-based blockchain technology startup Digital Asset has announced the formation of three “non-exclusive business relationships” with Accenture, Broadridge and PwC. The Blythe Masters-led startup will help the three firms harness the potential and promise of blockchain, the....
Writing on CIO Journal, a Wall Street Journalblog for corporate technology executives, Owen Jelf and Sigrid Seibold, respectively global managing director of Accenture's capital markets practice and managing director of Accenture's digital capital markets efforts, weigh in on the fashionable debate about the blockchain as a system vs. bitcoin as a currency. Not surprisingly, the two Accenture writers propose to do without bitcoin as a currency, but they are bullish about the potential of the blockchain in financial markets. "Blockchains present an enormous opportunity for the world's banks....
Earlier this year, Accenture conducted their 2014 North American Consumer Payments Survey, which revealed surprising data about the rate of digital currency adoption. The Accenture survey revealed that those in the 18-34 age group or those that had higher income were more likely to use digital currencies such as Bitcoin. Of those that used digital currencies, the majority stated that they did so because it "protects personal identity," with the second most cited reason being "lower cost transactions." To get a better idea of what one of the top consulting firms is planning to do regarding....