The paper notes that international payments remain slow and expensive, and significant savings can be made by banks and end - users bypassing existing international payment networks, and suggests that distributed ledger technology could reduce banks»
infrastructure costs attributable to cross-border payments, securities trading and regulatory compliance by between $ 15 billion and $ 20 billion per annum by 2022.
While these low
costs are
attributable to the region's access to natural resources and booming energy production, the report suggests that could end in only a few years unless new
infrastructure and pipeline projects are hastily approved.