Australian Financial Review – James Eyers Senior Reporter One of the pilots for a new digital Australian dollar will seek to compress the time it takes to settle trades in the $1.5 trillion bond market from two days to zero, removing settlement risks and cutting costs for banks and investors. Imperium Markets is running one […]
Australian Financial Review – James Eyers Senior Reporter Major banks will begin digitising contracts that govern their debt financing, and explore trading and settling money market transactions using blockchain technology, in a project that Imperium Markets and the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre (DFCRC) will launch in the coming months. The move is an example […]
Capital Brief – Andrew Cornell Imperium Markets will launch a major research project into digitalising the $3 trillion wholesale bond and deposit market and running it on blockchain. Financial markets platform Imperium will build on the Reserve Bank’s digital currency pilots to simulate debt market transactions on blockchain with a view to eventually digitising Australia’s […]
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Imperium Markets and Digital Finance CRC (DFCRC) will pilot a research project into how the tokenisation of assets and settlements can benefit Australian Money Markets and Debt Capital Markets. The Australian money markets and debt capital markets facilitate trillions of dollars of value transfer per annum and play an integral role in […]
Australian Financial Review – James Eyers and Jessica Sier The Reserve Bank of Australia says creating real-world financial assets in a “tokenised” form could unlock billions of dollars in annual savings for banks and other financial institutions by streamlining settlement processes and automating registries. The RBA is in the early stages of planning for a […]
Imperium Markets CEO Stu Burns and chairman Rod Lewis. “The role of clearing will change in the digital world,” Burns says. Photo: Rhett Wyman Australian Financial Review – James Eyers Senior Reporter Key Points Two major banks have used a real central bank digital currency to trade deposit securities. It is the first time this […]
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) have released a report on the findings from the joint research project involving industry that explored potential use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Australia.
Imperium Markets CEO Stu Burns and chairman Rod Lewis. Photo: Rhett Wyman Australian Financial Review – James Eyers Senior Reporter Australia’s major banks are using a new financial market that will shift settlement of term deposits for institutional investors to real-time using similar blockchain technology that the ASX has failed to implement for the equity […]
Australian Financial Review – Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd Former ANZ chief executive Mike Smith isn’t the only big name backing regtech/fintech player Imperium Markets. Street Talk can reveal Macquarie Bank tipped into the rising star’s capital raising that closed in September. It is understood Macquarie’s stake sits somewhere around 20 per cent. […]
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