Major Banks Developing Utility Settlement Coin, an Industry Standard for Digital Central Bank Cash
A group of major banks; UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander and BNY Mellon, as well as the broker ICAP, have teamed up to develop a new form of digital cash that will help to set an industry standard to clear and settle financial trades over a distributed ledger. In September 2015, Bitcoin Magazine reported that UBS was working on a prototype virtual currency....
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Two resources available almost exclusively to central banks could soon be opened up to additional users as a result of a new digital currency project designed by a little-known startup and Swiss bank UBS. One of those resources is the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system used by central banks (it's typically reserved for high-value transactions that need to be settled instantly), and the other is central bank-issued cash. Using the Utility Settlement Coin (USC) unveiled today, the five-member consortium that has sprung up around the project aims to help central banks open-up access to....
Four banks have reportedly partnered on a blockchain project aimed at creating a means to clear and settle transactions worldwide. BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Santander and UBS – the latter of which first disclosed its work on a so-called "settlement coin" last year – are hoping to launch a commercial-grade blockchain system by 2018, according to The Financial Times. The banks are working with blockchain startup Clearmatics, based in London. A formal announcement will reportedly be made tomorrow, FT's Martin Arnold reports. He explained in the article: "The utility settlement....
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Why would anyone want to use a coin issued by four large banks bailed out in 2008? That's a question that many are asking after UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNY Mellon and ICAP announced last week that they had teamed up with blockchain developer Clearmatics to create a new digital currency. In a joint press release, the new consortium said that the "Utility Settlement Coin" would be used to clear and settle financial market trades on a blockchain. But while it would be easy to see this as an alternative means of settlement using a private currency owned, issued and backstopped....
Earlier this month, UBS announced that it is in the process of creating a "settlement coin" that can be used for financial transactions. Is this yet another form of altcoin and will it rival bitcoin? The bank plans on using blockchain technology to create this settlement coin but has clarified that it will not function as a store of value, unlike most cryptocurrencies. Instead, its application could focus more on storing data regarding trade settlement between financial institutions, banks, and clients. Settlement Coin Applications. A number of other established firms have been looking....