Last year was about Trade Finance…
And since then :
An easy way to certify Direct
Guarantees authenticity with Ethereum Blockchain
https://docchain.ca-cib.com
KomGo
Leading industry players and
banks join forces to launchBlockchain platform to transformcommodities trade finance
Let’s go back to 2015…The kick off for Blockchain in Capital Markets
White Papers come out explaining how
Blockchain applied to Capital Markets is going
to transform :
“Banks are going to save millions…”
• Clearing and Settlement
• Collateral Management
• Internal Reconciliation
• Other operational
improvements
It’s a Gold Rush !
Important investments are made in 2015-2016 :
• Linq, NASDAQ pre-IPO platform goes live
• R3 is launched with 20 banks to develop a DLT targeting financial services
• Digital Assets Holding raises 60 M€ in a couple of months
• Market leaders like DTCC launch several projects, one in
partnership with DAH, IBM and R3
Crédit Agricole CIB chose SETL and invested in 2018
Why so much enthusiasm ?
Everyone sharing a common
vision of the Truth
Moving cash and Digital Assets in an instant
And since then…
Lots of work and experiments :
• Transactions on Blockchain mirroring real issuances
• A few pilots on real transactions operated on
Blockchain
Almost no live projects*…*Except Nasdaq pre-IPO platform
We were aiming for :
Capital Markets fully
running on Blockchain
Important savings
and efficiency gains
What do we learn from that?
Start
Simple
Scale UpPick a
Quick Victory
In order to build this new market infrastructure :