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University of Bradford

Blockchain Technology for Data Sharing in the Banking Sector

Abstract

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Know Your Customer compliance costs have never been higher for banks in Europe. This thesis looks at the application of blockchain technology to reduce Know Your Customer compliance costs. The work within aims to utilise the strengths of blockchain technology in order to reduce the costs of compliance for banks. This is done through collaboration with industry partners, resulting in a system designed to meet banks’ needs. The contributions of this work are: 1) A system which enables data sharing between banks, enabling 2) reduc tion of costs by at least 45%, and 3) reducing or eliminating over reliance on third parties, 4) an exploration of how to price data within the system is made in order to help banks further reduce their costs, 5) reduction of chain size by reducing the size of contract creation transactions in Ethereum by 90% for standard users, lastly, 6) to better understand the functionality and purpose of smart contracts. The system is the first of its kind to remove the requirement of third party storage solutions, and is the first to explore pricing aspects in detail.

Degree

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Grantor dc:publisher.institution
University of Bradford
Year dc:date.issued
2020

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Norvill, Robert E.
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Awan, Irfan

Subjects

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Rights

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  • <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>.
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier.uri
https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/19032.2
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oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19032.2

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Norvill, Robert E.. Blockchain Technology for Data Sharing in the Banking Sector. University of Bradford, 2020. https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/19032.2