Calastone, a London-based transaction network for investment funds, is looking to move its entire settlements system to a blockchain by May 2019.
According to a Financial Times report on Sunday, Calastone, which provides services to over 1,700 firms including JP Morgan Asset Management, estimates the plan could help the industry save up to £3.4 billion in fund distribution costs, excluding the U.S. market.
Currently, Calastone's processes for settling funds are still manual, including over 9 million messages and transactions worth about $217 billion a month between buyers, sellers and distributors, according to the firm's website.
It now eyes blockchain as a way to automate these processes in order to make them cheaper and more efficient since parities involved will no longer need to submit the same information repetitively.
The first phase of a blockchain proof-of-concept for "Distributed market infrastructure", and said at the time it will move its system to a "Private and permissioned" blockchain network in 2019.
Earlier in February, Calastone predicted that moving to blockchain could help the global mutual funds market save over $2.5 billion a year, using data from a 2016 Deloitte study.
Other players in the asset management industry are also looking to bring mutual funds transactions onto a blockchain.
As early as 2016, five major British mutual fund operators, including Aberdeen Asset Management and Aviva Investors, collaborated on exploring blockchain in trading systems to reduce costs.
Last year in December, U.S. mutual funds manager Vanguard said.
Nasdaq and Sweden's SEB bank also tested blockchain for mutual fund trading in September 2017.
UK Funds Facilitator to Roll Out Blockchain Settlements in 2019
pubblicato su Dec 3, 2018
by Coindesk | pubblicato su Coinage
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