Five banks have been working with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to flesh out its vision of the Global Layer One (GL1) blockchain, a public permissioned blockchain network that could form the foundation of numerous applications. The five institutions are BNY, Citi, J.P. Morgan, MUFG and Societe Generale-FORGE. They will now be joined by HSBC and Euroclear. Some of the project’s scope has also been expanded.
There’s some crossover between the GL1 concept and the BIS’s unified ledger. Both aim to create a single infrastructure that will support multiple applications and asset classes. GL1 aims to enable trading, settlement, payments, collateral, corporate actions and more on a shared network.
When the group published the report on the first phase of work in June, we noted a willingness to embrace disruption by eliminating the need for key roles performed by central securities depositories (CSD). However, now a CSD (Euroclear) is one of the architects.
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