The Impact and Potential of Blockchain on the Securities Transaction Lifecycle*
This paper reports the outcome of a series of interviews and focus group meetings with professionals working in post-trade processing and the provision of mutual distributed ledger services. The objective was to elicit and document views on three research hypotheses about the potential impact of mutual distributed ledger technology (âblockchainâ) on post-trade processing global securities markets.
Distributed ledger technologies in securities post-trading
This paper analyses the main features of DLTs that could influence their adoption by financial institutions and discusses how use of these technologies could affect the European post-trade market for securities.
Embracing Disruption: Tapping The Potential Of Distributed Ledgers To Improve The Post-trade Landscape
The paper, titled âEmbracing Disruption â Tapping the Potential of Distributed Ledgers to Improve the Post-Trade Landscape, â notes that while todayâs financial market infrastructures have a proven track record of providing stability, reliability and certainty, they are often quite complex, siloed and not equipped for 24/7/365 processing. DTCC believes a secure distributed ledger, with complete and traceable transaction history for a set of assets that is shared and accessible only between trusted parties, could provide significant operational improvements as well as further mitigate risk and reduce post-trade costs.
