The document discusses several use cases for blockchain technology developed by IBM. It describes projects using blockchain for trade finance between major banks, dispute resolution in global financing, know your customer verification across banks, food supply chain traceability, global shipping visibility, and a project by The Plastic Bank to use plastic waste as a currency tracked on blockchain.

1. IBM Montpellier Client Center –
Making Blockchain real

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Hyperledger: A Linux Foundation project
• A collaborative effort created to advance cross-
industry blockchain technologies for business
• Founded February 2016; now more than 230
member organizations
• Open source, open standards, open governance
• Five frameworks and five tools projects
• IBM is a premier member of Hyperledger
www.hyperledger.org

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Distributed ledger platform
• An implementation of blockchain technology that is
a foundation for developing blockchain applications
• Emphasis on ledger, smart contracts, consensus,
confidentiality, resiliency and scalability.
• V1.1 released March 2018
– Includes significant performance, security,
migration and smart contract improvements
• IBM is one of the many contributing organizations
http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/
Blockchain Explored

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Making blockchain real for business…
Trade Finance Pre and Post Trade Complex Risk Coverage
Identity/ Know your customer (KYC) Unlisted Securities/ Private Equity Funds Incentive Program
Medicated Health Data Exchange Government Distributed Energy/ Carbon Credit
Supply Chain Food Trust Provenance/ Traceability
Blockchain Solutions

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– Identifying a good blockchain use-case is not always easy!
– However there should always be:
1. A business problem to be solved
• That cannot be more efficiently solved with other
technologies
2. An identifiable business network
• With Participants, Assets and Transactions
3. A need for trust
• Consensus, Immutability, Finality or Provenance
What makes a good blockchain use case?

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What?
• We.trade is a blockchain-based international trading system for a
consortium of major world banks including:
Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société
Générale, Santander, UniCredit and Nordea
• Enables accurate trading posture information, order to settlement
control, risk coverage, track and trace options
Benefits
• Near-real time exchange of information on a secure platform that
digitizes transactional financing and other complex processes
• Continual business and compliance readiness in any regulatory
environment
• Scalability that allows for rapid international expansion as business,
regulatory, and security opportunities converge
Trade Finance

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What?
• IBM Global Finance provides a $41bn channel
financing per year. There are a number of disputes
that take time to resolve and can lock up
transactions costing time and money
How?
• Blockchain provides visibility and provenance end-
to-end across supply chain
Benefits
• Reduced dispute resolution time by 75%
• Released working capital from $100m
• Combine IGF and Supplier info to further expand
benefits further
• In production since Sept 2016
Global Financing: Dispute Resolution

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Common KYC Data
What?
• View of customer identity to enable compliance with Know Your
Customer (KYC)
How?
• A complete view of customers' documents across a distributed
network
Benefits
• Creation of a single but cross-businesses KYC platform to inform all of the banks processes.
• Crédit Mutuel Arkéa could enable its customers to deliver proof of their identity to third-parties such as
local utilities, retailers or regulated service providers.

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What?
• Provide a trusted source of information and traceability to
improve transparency and efficiency across the food
network.
How?
• Shared ledger for storing digital compliance
documentation, test results and audit certificates network.
Benefits
• Reduce impact of food recalls through instant access to
end-to-end traceability data to verify history in the food
network and supply chain.
• Help to address the 1 in 10 people sickened and 400,000
fatalities WW which occur every year from food-born
illnesses.
Food Trust

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What?
• An open, extensible platform for sharing shipping events,
messages, and documents across all the actors and
systems in the supply chain ecosystem.
How?
• Providing Shared Visibility and Shared State for
Container Shipments
Benefits
• Increase speed and transparency for cross border
transactions through real time access to container events.
• Reduced cost and increased efficiency through paperless
trade
Provider of interface:
value-add partners
Event publishers
& subscribers
GTD
Platform
Customs
Dashboard
Logistic actors
internal systems
Supply Chain
Visibility systems
Port community
systems
Transportation
management
Shippers
Authorities
Trade Associations
Carriers
Supply Chain
Actors
Terminals
Supply Chain
Management
Global Digitized Trade

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12. The Plasticbank investigates Blockchain
technology at the IBM Montpellier to turn
plastic waste into an “electronic currency”
• The Plastic Bank is an organization that’s making plastic
waste a currency to help the world’s most disadvantaged
people.
• Challenge: develop plastic recycling by cleaning
the planet while providing an income to the poorest
people on earth
• IT Strategy: implement a global information system
based on Blockchain technology to facilitate
exchange for healthcare, education, and other
basic necessities for life.
• And who can explain better than our customers?
• Shaun Frankson YouTube testimony 1
• Shaun Frankson YouTube testimony 2

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Thank you
Anna Shugol
anna.shugol1@ibm.com