1. Blockchain Identity Management
Paulo Figueiredo

2. Who am I
Paulo Figueiredo – Member of the team that created the first digital Bank in Portugal in Leads the IT, Operations, Retail and Marketing areas at board level. Strong brand : innovation, solid, profitable. Working on a PhD at IST, Lisbon. Management training at HBS, LSE, Insead.

3. Research Topic Blockchain for Identity Management
Focus on regulated industries: core identity data well defined.
Identity as a set of verifiable claims, cryptographically signed.
Narrowing the Scope
Banking as Use Case
Challenges: AML / KYC / GDPR

4. Banking as a Use Case
A private permissioned Blockchain using financial institutions as nodes for identity data
Account Opening at a Bank is replaced by Register at Finantial Services.
Decrease cost of account opening and maintenance.
Increase competition at service level, to retain clients
Increased resiliency of banking clients data against data breach
Higher transparency to regulator.

5. Current work Prototype development starting
MsC students working on the project under my supervision
Hyperledger / Smart Contracts
Open to look at other implementation alternatives