This Emerging Issues Video is the second in a three-part series on blockchain. In it, partners Stephen Obie (New York), Harriet Territt (London), and Mark Rasmussen (Dallas) describe how blockchain will impact industry sectors, supply chains and trade, public and government services, access to banking services in the developing world, as well as protect individuals' property and privacy rights.

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