Central bank digital currencies, decentralised finance and green finance are central to the Bank of International Settlements’ innovation programme, with London and Nordic hubs launching their first projects
Marking the first live element in Deutsche Börse’s D7 platform for electronic securities issuance and processing, market participants have commenced testing for the next phases of the digital platform roll-out
07 December 2021United Kingdom Reporter: Jenna Lomax
State Street has completed the margin calculation process for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange forward contract through the use of Assembly, Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology
DekaBank and Metzler Bank finalise DvD securities lending transaction on DekaBank’s blockchain-based digital securities platform, reducing previous collateralisation and custody overheads according to trade participants
MultiHub is designed to address platform interoperability and time to market challenges as well as addressing the lack of standards still apparent across multiple blockchains and traditional infrastructure
Daml, a platform for building multi-party applications that run across new technologies and legacy infrastructure, will aid Goldman Sachs to develop its end-to-end tokenised asset infrastructure
FSB and IMF pinpoint securities financing transactions as one of four areas where steps to implement G20 DGI recommendations unlikely to hit targets for 2021
The aim is to build a digital infrastructure prototype that helps issuers and governments meet sustainability goals, with projects guided by experts from industry and civil society