Scouting Blockchain Applications for a Global Financial Services Firm

Client Background 

A global financial services leader operating in more than 30 countries sought to understand how blockchain could be applied beyond cryptocurrencies. The company wanted clarity on potential use cases in trade finance, digital identity, and smart contract automation. To move forward confidently, they needed an evaluation grounded in technical feasibility, regulatory alignment, and fit within their existing infrastructure.

Client’s Challenge 

The client faced internal pressure to define a blockchain strategy, but their teams struggled with fragmented information and mixed industry signals. They lacked visibility into which use cases were truly viable, how mature the underlying technologies were, and what integration would require. Leadership needed an objective, expert-backed view that could cut through noise, validate assumptions, and focus attention on opportunities that matched their capability stack and compliance environment.

How Mordor Intelligence Helped 

• Evaluated More Than 25 Use Cases: Assessed blockchain applications across trade finance, identity, custody, compliance, and document authentication, mapping each to market viability and readiness for implementation. 
• Gathered Primary Insights: Conducted interviews with fintech builders, platform integrators, and regulatory advisors to validate maturity levels and uncover on-the-ground adoption hurdles. 
• Benchmarked Competitor Activity: Analyzed peer strategies, consortium participation, and regional pilots to contextualize where the market was moving. 
• Built a Custom Prioritization Framework: Ranked opportunities based on technical alignment with the client’s architecture, compliance and security risk, and geographic feasibility. 

Key Findings 

• Several blockchain applications showed strong long-term potential but lacked short-term integration readiness for enterprise-scale systems.
• Trade finance solutions were the most mature but required interoperability commitments from multiple external stakeholders.
• Digital identity frameworks varied significantly by region due to regulatory maturity and privacy mandates. 
  Competitor initiatives were focused on narrow, well-defined pilots rather than full-scale implementations. 

Our Industry Coverage 

Mordor Intelligence supports clients across technology, financial services, healthcare, industrial systems, and energy transitions with structured scouting and evaluation services. Our capabilities include: 

• Technology, Media, and Telecom: Tracking AI, immersive computing, connectivity innovation, and hardware-roadmap shifts through direct industry inputs. 
• Financial Services: Monitoring decentralized infrastructure, digital identity, quantum-secure systems, and RegTech advancements validated with CTOs and risk specialists. 
• Healthcare and Life Sciences: Scouting digital therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, and clinical decision-support technologies in collaboration with researchers and health systems. 
• Industrial and Energy Transitions: Evaluating robotics, automation, smart materials, and next-generation energy systems through academic and deployment expert engagement. 

Through structured emerging technology evaluation, Mordor Intelligence enables organizations to identify practical innovation opportunities, avoid costly misalignment, and build future-ready technology portfolios.