Is there a plausible future for the use of Bitcoin in the financial industry and corporate finance?
Generally, Bitcoin is a poor fit for the needs of most financial institutions. They want features which are incompatible with Bitcoin, or require unsupported workarounds:


Holding local currencies.
Reversing transactions.
Keeping transaction information secret from the public, but available to regulators.
The ability to kick others off of their platform if they give the platform a bad name.


What those articles talk about is Bitcoin technology (also called 'blockchain technology') which is much more broad.