First of all, I didn't expect to have so many answers so thank you a lot for taking the time to help me !  

Finally I think that my research question will simply be : "How will the blockchain technology likely impact the financial services sectors ?"

By doing that I am going to present like my professor wants all the short, long and middle term applications of the blockchain and who's trying to implement each applications. I read that only 9% of CIO's have already invested or are considering a short-term investment. And of course, I'm going to explain what is the Blockchain, how it works, why I decided to focus on the financial sector (I read several time that at the moment the financial sector is the one who's doing more research and who's investing more on the Blockchain), ... This will be for the theoretical part.

For the research part / empirical part :

I read an article yesterday which was about "blockchain revolution without the blockchain". The article said that "most of the suggested benefits of blockchain technologies don't really come from elements unique to the blockchain". "Smart contracts, encryption, and distributed ledger are separate concepts. The three may be implemented together, but they do not need to be. Most of the proposed benefits come from encryption and smart contracts. But encryption and smart contracts do not need blockchain."

Here's the link to the article if you want to read it : https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/7/229049-blockchain-revolution-without-the-blockchain/fulltext

I thought it was a good thing to analyse and link to all the applications thah I'll mention in the first part. And it will be easier to anlayse what each company wants to do and how each one approach the concept of Blockchain.
So as you can see it'll be a qualitative research. I don't see at the moment what I can do if I want to do a quantitative research with this type of subject. And with my level of knowledge (I only know the basic stuff  ), I think it will be more easy for me to handle it and also to find the information that I'll need.

What do you think about my idea ??

And thank you for all the links that I received, the advice, ect It really helped me a lot !

Hi !


I have to study the short, medium and long-term application of the blockchain within the financial sector for my thesis. My professor gave me this topic and I liked it so I said yes. I am thinking about studying who's really working on implementing the blockchain to see if it's just a buzzword or if the majority of the companies are really investing in it and not only talking about it and about their ideas by searching on the internet informations for example. And getting in touch with different companies. I'll be doing my internship at EY next year so I'll try to get the opportunity to have information too. And PWC has already done this type of research so I thought I could also compare a little bit my results by the end of my research.

I don't know if it's a good idea for the empirical part of my thesis so I wanted to know what do you think about it
And if you have other idea please let me know beacause I am a bit lost.


I'm also new here so I don't know if it's the good place to ask my question. I'm sorry if it's not 


Thank you !

PS : I'm also sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker ^^