The Financial Authority of Singapore (MAS) and also the country’s stock market, Singapore Exchange (SGX), allow us funds system for tokenized assets that may work across different blockchains.
Announced through the nation’s Secretary of state for Communications and knowledge in an announcement on Sunday, the recently completed delivery versus payment (DvP) system utilizes smart contracts to simplify publish-trade processes and shorten the settlement cycle.
The brand new product is aimed to really make it simpler for banking institutions to handle the synchronised exchange and final settlement of tokenized digital currencies and securities as needed under DvP.
Prototypes for that platform, developed along with Nasdaq and Deloitte, had “demonstrated that banking institutions and investors can perform synchronised exchange and final settlement of tokenised digital currencies and securities assets on several blockchain platforms,” the discharge states.
The brand new product is also extra time of Project Ubin, which began existence in November 2016 like a collaborative project by MAS and Singapore’s financial services industry to understand more about blockchain tech for clearing and settlement of payments and securities.
Tinku Gupta, project chair and SGX’s mind of technology, stated within the release:
“Based around the unique methodology SGX designed to enable real-world interoperability of platforms, along with the synchronised exchange of digital tokens and securities, we’ve requested our first-ever technology patent.”
SGX first announced the program to utilize MAS yet others to make use of blockchain tech inside the settlement system in August, saying the audience would examine Project Ubin’s existing protocols and see the best way to leverage them for any DvP platform.