Blockchain Solutions for Asset Management
Blockchain Solutions for Asset Management
With Ethereum-based tokens, you can digitize traditional securities and create new financial instruments. ConsenSys helps you easily integrate blockchain technology so you can seamlessly issue customizable assets and streamline compliance, onboarding, lifecycle management, asset servicing, and distribution.
Rapidly issue secure and customizable assets
The Problem
Asset issuance today is a slow and complex process that involves multiple intermediaries. Legacy systems make institutions slow to react to ever-changing investor demands and increasingly stringent financial regulations.
The Solution
Codefi streamlines the entire asset issuance and lifecycle management process. We offer the rapid, secure, and customizable issuance of digital assets, fully encoded and automated with investor rights and obligations, and also compliance attributes.
The digitization of both traditional securities and new financial instruments allows the monetization of a wider range of assets. Customizable issuance and rapid time-to-market allow issuers to match digital asset attributes directly with investor demands. These advancements, compounded with fractionalized ownership and reduced operational costs give rise to several game-changing benefits. Most prominently, it broadens access to a wider market of potential investors, increasing market size, and encouraging robust liquidity. It skyrockets secondary market opportunities, significantly reduces counterparty risk, raises the velocity of the funding process, and unlocks capital at lower costs.
Read about Mata Capital’s partnership with Codefi to tokenize three funds worth a total of €350m→
Automate compliance across global markets
The Problem
The requirements for compliance and regulatory reporting have intensified significantly in order to keep up with the pace of financial innovation. Traditionally, companies have relied on monthly or quarterly manual audits that are inefficient and prone to human error, manipulation, and fraud. Companies that operate internationally additionally find it challenging to comply with evolving regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
The Solution
Codefi issues digital assets on an immutable ledger, with built-in compliance functions and automated real-time transaction monitoring. We create digital assets that behave similar to existing asset classes with code that is modeled after traditional securities law, and we program compliance attributes to adhere to specific regulations according to intended geographic distribution. Our platform can extend permissions to regulators enabling real-time oversight of asset and network activities. Compliant digital assets with the behavior of conventional asset models, and transparent reporting to relevant stakeholders reduces investor and regulator uncertainty, and helps promote approval and adoption.
Manage the entire asset lifecycle on one platform
The Problem
Traditional fund subscriptions and asset lifecycle management are reliant on complex, manual, paper-based processes involving a handful of intermediaries. These processes are prone to human error, data manipulation, and fraud, and often occur in siloes, requiring frequent data reconciliation. Fractured fund administration results in accumulating costs, high subscription fees, and poor investor experience.
The Solution
Codefi digitizes security lifecycle events on one platform. It retains a single source of truth for all platform activity and facilitates data accessibility, eliminating the need for manual reconciliation. This optimizes a full range of corporate actions, from dividend and proxy voting, to splits, issues of rights and warrants, takeovers and exchanges— simplifying the investor experience.
The fully digital lifecycle facilitates network governance, enhances investor relations, and enables real-time cap-table management. The coded business logic reduces human errors, eliminates the need for third-party asset servicing, significantly improves efficiency, and reduces costs.
Distribute digital assets directly to investors
The Problem
Upon issuance, investment firms traditionally rely on banks, brokers, and other intermediaries to distribute their products. This incurs middleman costs and promotes a removed relationship from investors, limiting a firm’s ability to manage the investor experience.
The Solution
Codefi enables direct asset distribution on its digital asset marketplace. We connect issuers directly with investors and facilitate peer-to-peer markets, creating secondary market opportunities and promoting greater liquidity. We enable investment firms to take control over the entire asset management value chain, and eliminate transfer agent, asset servicing, and proxy administration fees in the process.
Transact with real-time settlement
The Problem
Clearing and settlement cycles can take up to three business days from the transaction date, passing through multiple intermediaries using siloed systems. This creates delays in payment among stakeholders, and impacts cash-flow.
The Solution
Blockchain eliminates the need for intermediaries such as transfer and paying agents, central clearing houses, and central security deposits— enabling near-real-time settlement and making T+0 a reality. Accenture recently estimated that the global financial industry could save up to $10 billion by using blockchain to store and process clearing and settlement.
Upgrade data quality for asset servicing
The Problem
Custodians currently rely on a number of sources to provide accurate security reference and fundamental asset reference data that aligns with changes from corporate actions and associated events. For this, custodians must pay premium fees and work to standardize information that is critical for almost every major system and process across the industry.
The Solution
Blockchain transforms the way digital asset data is collected, validated, updated and maintained, by providing a single source of truth that eliminates the need for data reconciliation. We supply trusted, machine-readable data sets that run mission critical processes and analytics. This streamlines data cleansing and utilization, reduces costs, and facilitates the experience of issuers, investors, custodians, and other stakeholders.
Work with ConsenSys to launch your blockchain solution for asset management.
Benefits of Blockchain in Asset Management
Wider Asset Monetization
Asset tokenization can be applied to both traditional securities and new financial instruments, expanding types of assets under management.
Products Tailored to Market Demand
Assets can be customized to meet specific investor requirements, and slow settling financial products can be restructured to better adapt to changing demand.
Wider Market Access and Lower Risks
Fractionalized ownership, global distribution, and the reduced cost of issuance ensure affordable assets are accessible to larger investor pools.
Heightened Secondary Market Opportunities
Increased connectivity between digital assets and associated networks expands secondary market opportunities and improves the potential for liquidity.
Immediate Post-Trade Processing and Settlement
Blockchain activates immediate change in records of ownership, arrangement of transfer and settlement of funds.
Process Efficiency and Reduced Costs
Smart contracts automate asset mgmt processes including compliance, KYC/AML, registry maintenance, payment settlement, transaction monitoring, and reporting. This produces significant time and cost savings.
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Asset Management Case Studies and Webinars
Mata Capital Case Study: Catalyzing real estate investments with blockchain technology
Blockchain for real estate asset management. French investment fund, Mata Capital, partners with Codefi Assets to tokenize three funds worth a combined total of €350m, promoting trust, transparency and efficiency for real estate investors.
On-Demand Webinar: The Future of Finance - Digital Assets and DeFi
A discussion on the macro-financial and technological trends that are contributing to the exponential growth in decentralized finance.
On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Tokenization
Learn how businesses can use blockchain technology to digitize value and streamline asset management across industries, including secure, scalable and fast asset transfer across borders, fractionalized ownership of real-world assets, tokenized micro-economies, and accountable, transparent governance systems.
Asset Management News and Insights
LawCoin Completes World’s First Tokenization Of Litigation Finance Investment
LawCoin is building the digital tokenization of ownership interests, making it the world’s first tokenized litigation finance investment vehicle. LawCoin is building a platform for investments in litigation and other legal claims, which is slated to launch in early 2020.
The Future of Asset Management Part 2: Blockchain and the Digital Asset Manager
A report exploring the impact of blockchain on the asset manager in the context of industry trends and challenges.
The Future of Asset Management Part 1: Transforming Asset Servicing
A report exploring the impact of blockchain on the asset servicing industry, the asset manager, the custodian bank, and fund administration.
ConsenSys Codefi
The complete blockchain application suite for digital asset management
Codefi allows asset managers to create, issue, and manage the lifecycle of digital assets, associated markets, and digital financial instruments on permissioned blockchain networks.
- Create financial products that are not currently securitized, including accounts payable, invoices, and supplier service contracts. Build on the connectivity between fully digitized assets to form new financial products and services.
- Better meet investor and market demands by restructuring slow settling financial products, and customizing asset issuance directly for investor specifications.
- Unlock liquidity by enabling fast and secure peer-to-peer asset transfers to expand secondary market opportunities and attract further investors to your network.
- Access global markets, broaden your investor base, and amass more diversified assets under management with international distribution capabilities.
- Achieve optimal operational efficiency and reduce costs with automated processes, and a distributed and mutualized market infrastructure.