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Why Standards And Controls Are Essential To The Future Of Digital Financial Markets

  • January 31, 2024
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While the industry is ready to assimilate DLT and digital assets into the financial ecosystem, it first needs help overcoming roadblocks to moving assets across blockchains and integrations to traditional systems.

  • The fever-pitch hype around distributed ledger technology is being replaced by more concrete efforts to integrate this technology into our financial systems.
  • Standards and controls will be essential in ensuring this technology’s integration is managed effectively.
  • Industry leaders DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear have partnered to publish a white paper on the financial industry’s continued evolution in digital assets.

For a moment back in the mid-2010s, blockchain was being hailed as the future of financial markets. It was labeled generational and transformative due to its decentralized nature and potential applications across various industries, with the ability to solve an ever-growing list of operational challenges.

That level of hype was never realistic or sustainable. While there is no doubt that distributed ledger technology (DLT) still holds great promise to reimagine business models and processes, the blockchain journey has reached an inflection point after years of experimentation. Many companies have begun increasing rigor around investment and want to see a pay-off. They’re demanding a real strategy and strong business cases before approving funding for existing and new proofs of concept.

The good news is that, according to a recent study, nearly 40% of financial market participants are currently using some form of DLT or digital assets. These initiatives have begun to show that the technology can improve certain functions, such as securities issuance, trade settlement and data transparency. They have also demonstrated new investment opportunities and operating models as well as ways to enhance efficiencies and liquidity across trade flows and asset classes.

Fragmented innovation is stymying progress

However, too many financial institutions and service providers are exploring how to leverage the technologies individually or as islands of digital innovation. Across the capital markets involved, 74% of DLT projects involved fewer than six participants in 2023. It’s clear that what’s lacking is widespread, industry-wide collaboration. The siloed nature of these initiatives, implemented on different networks with different protocols for connectivity, communication and function, pose challenges to broad adoption and limits the ability to scale any DLT solution.

All of these obstacles can lead to inefficiencies, risks, high transaction costs and limited gains from trading. They also could lead to a new but disconnected puzzle of DLT silos that use multiple technologies and standards. In an ideal world, uniform standards would create an even playing field for new entrants into the financial system, maintain privacy and security and ensuring new systems are compatible with existing ones. Consistent standards would also help bridge the digital divide across jurisdictions that are excluded or have more costly access to cross-border systems.

While the industry is ready to assimilate DLT and digital assets into the financial ecosystem, it first needs help overcoming roadblocks to moving assets across blockchains and integrations to traditional systems. The financial markets work well today because we have developed standards for their design and operation. DTCC has been exploring DLT and digitization for many years, and has successfully tested DLT’s capabilities in several use cases. There is continued momentum in the sector, and DTCC itself has taken a number of steps to advance a robust infrastructure, standards, governance and the right architecture to ensure the safety and soundness of digital markets.

Recognizing the value of principles and standards to the efficient operation of markets, DTCC has developed an initial set of control principles to help ensure the emerging tokenized securities market is as efficient, incorporates customer protections and is as safe and sound as today’s securities marketplace. These principles aim to reduce risk through defining roles, responsibilities, risks and offsetting controls.

How the financial industry is partnering to move forward

This past September, DTCC partnered with Clearstream and Euroclear to publish a white paper on the industry’s continued evolution in digital assets. The report called out the need for greater industry collaboration to overcome the roadblocks impeding the progress of digital assets and counteracting the efficiencies achieved through DLT. The three firms have pledged to collaborate with the industry to drive scale and harmonize standards across processes, platforms and jurisdictions.

An example of such industry-wide collaboration is a recent experiment conducted by SWIFT in which banks and market infrastructures participated to test the transfer of simulated tokenized assets. The results showed that SWIFT’s existing infrastructure can provide a secure, scalable way for financial institutions to connect to multiple types of blockchains. The industry must continue to work together like this to build the optimal architecture and market structure to incorporate DLT and digital assets into the ecosystem and best meet participants’ needs.

Fostering industry-wide collaboration

DTCC has taken further steps to advance digital assets. Most notable is its recent acquisition of Securrency, a developer of institutional-grade, digital asset infrastructure. This will enable DTCC to continue driving institutional adoption of blockchain technology, enabling real time processing and post-trade settlement, and will position DTCC to connect global liquidity pools.

These new capabilities will also be a key enabler to fostering industry-wide collaboration to promote acceptance and adoption of digital assets. By acting as a DLT-agnostic harmonization layer, the platform will connect disparate blockchains and promote liquidity, transparency and security. Financial firms will be able to use it to transform and evolve their operating models and create new digital asset services alone or in collaboration with other market participants. DTCC’s investment in Fnality, a provider of DLT-based wholesale payment systems, will help foster the development of new rails that will be essential for the emergence of a robust digital infrastructure.

As the worlds of TradFi and DeFi converge, DTCC is committed to continuing to partner with the industry through efforts such as these to help introduce the standards and governance needed to drive ecosystem growth while ensuring the highest levels of market safety and stability. The collective impact of these initiatives will help establish a robust digital infrastructure for the industry in a responsible manner to deliver on the compelling opportunities presented by digital assets.

By: Frank La Salla (President, CEO & Director, DTCC)
Originally published at: World Economic Forum

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