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Iznes révolutionne les placements de trésorerie d’Engie
- January 25, 2021
- Posted by: Noémie Socha
- Category: Innovation
No CommentsLes équipes financières d’Engie ont finalisé il y a peu le déploiement de la plateforme Iznes, dont la technologie blockchain leur a permis d’optimiser considérablement leur processus de placement de trésorerie de court terme. Grâce à cet outil, l’entreprise s’est par ailleurs affranchie de frais de conservation de titres très importants. Pour la direction de la trésorerie d’Engie, et plus particulièrement le département dédié à la liquidité de court terme de l’entreprise, l’année 2020 aura été placée sous le sceau de l’innovation. Après plusieurs mois de travail, celle-ci a récemment achevé le déploiement de la plateforme blockchain paneuropéenne Iznes, dédiée à la réalisation et au traitement des investissements en parts de fonds monétaires. Une initiative récompensée par le premier prix lors de la quatrième édition des Finance Awards du groupe.
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Press Release of January 19th, 2021
- January 19, 2021
- Posted by: Noémie Socha
- Category: Press Release
IZNES choisie par la Banque de France pour réaliser des transactions sur parts de fonds pour la première fois en monnaie numérique de banque centrale. Dans le cadre du programme d’expérimentation piloté par la Banque de France, plus d’une dizaine de transactions sur parts de fonds, pour un montant global supérieur à deux millions d’euros, ont été réalisées en décembre 2020 sur la plateforme IZNES en utilisant de la monnaie numérique de banque centrale (MNBC). Il s’agit du premier règlement de parts de fonds à l’aide de MNBC.
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Press Release of January 13th, 2021
- January 13, 2021
- Posted by: Noémie Socha
- Category: Press Release
Generali et le Groupe APICIL entrent au capital d’IZNES, plateforme paneuropéenne d’achat et de vente d’OPC[1] utilisant la technologie blockchain. Créée en 2017 par un consortium de six sociétés de gestion, IZNES est aujourd’hui soutenue par deux nouveaux investisseurs de renom qui entrent à son capital : Generali et le Groupe APICIL, via son fonds dédié Insurtech Capital. Ils deviennent respectivement le premier assureur et le premier groupe de protection sociale à entrer au capital de la Fintech. Ce partenariat stratégique donne un coup d’accélérateur au développement d’un nouvel écosystème en blockchain pour le traitement des opérations sur OPC.
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Technologies with a big impact on the funds business
- December 3, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: Fund Distribution
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is going to be the catalyst of profound changes in the fund industry. Traditionally, post-market activities are not a sector that has benefitted from substantial investments within major financial groups, and the asset management post-market segment is no exception to this. As a consequence, players suffer from operational difficulties, particularly regarding distribution, and especially cross-border distribution. Capital and goods move freely and easily within the European Union, but this is much less the case for UCITS despite Europe being an immense savings reservoir.
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Revolution in the German Capital Market: Securities Become Digital
- August 11, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: International
The legislator has drafted a proposal for digital securities that could trigger a revolution in the German capital market. Four aspects point in this direction: First, securities are being detached from the paper-based certificate in a systematic way, thus dematerialized, which creates the basis for the digital capital market of the future. Second, in the future, there will be the possibility that in addition to the central securities depository Clearstream — which belongs to Deutsche Börse — other registers perform the same function. Competition is therefore guaranteed. Third, the legislator also enables issuers themselves — possibly even industrial corporations — to keep the register for their own securities. Fourth, the legislator is creating the necessary conditions under German law for securities to be issued on decentralized blockchain systems such as possibly Ethereum — the second largest crypto currency after Bitcoin. — Philipp Sandner, Johannes Blassl
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The Banque de France retains 8 service providers to experiment with its digital currency
- July 24, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Categories: Innovation, MDBC
The Banque de France publishes the list of candidates selected for central bank digital money (MDBC) experiments in interbank settlements. Following the examination of the applications received on May 15 in response to the call for applications launched by the Banque de France, the following 8 applications were selected, in alphabetical order: Accenture, Euroclear, HSBC, Iznes, LiquidShare, ProsperUS, Seba Bank and Société Générale-Forge. This list gives pride of place to the historical heavyweights of finance, even with companies such as Iznes and Liquidshare recently created and whose shareholders are among the traditional banking players.
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Iznes accelerates its development in Europe
- July 16, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: FinTech
The ACPR granted Iznes the investment company license on June 19. Iznes is the first European operational platform for processing blockchain technology fund share transactions. More than 10 billion euros have been traded since the launch in April 2019. The platform offers a complete solution, available to management companies and their investor clients, from the initiation of a relationship to the maintenance of the register.
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The alarming consolidation of fund distributors
- July 9, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: FinTech
The distribution of funds is undergoing a transformation. The European market, historically fragmented and dominated by large Swiss distributors such as UBP, is seeing the development of new players. "There are fewer platforms today than at the beginning of the 2000s. In particular, we have seen a consolidation of the sector since 2017, with the emergence of new platforms such as Allfunds and MFEX," confirms Sylvie Baijot, global head of fund distribution solutions at BNP Paribas Securities Services.
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Securities-related projects at the time of selection
- May 28, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Categories: Innovation, MDBC
The prospect of unwinding trade with a central bank currency stimulates initiatives in the quest for the right model.
Boiling point guaranteed for the entire blockchain ecosystem with the call for projects from the Banque de France, which received applications until May 15. "The competition will select up to ten use case experiments using euros issued by the Banque de France via the blockchain for financial exchanges", recalls Thibaud de Lajudie, partner, Ailancy. -
Blockchain is encouraging « Coopetition » between Asset Managers
- April 8, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: Fund Distribution
A lot of operating hurdles facing asset managers in the distribution of their funds could be removed. The initiative of Iznes, co-founded by six asset management companies, has already been favourably received by 25 contributing international players.A few decades ago, American airline companies (subsequently followed by their European peers), all competitors, made the most of the computerisation phenomenon to take a joint initiative and create a global distribution system (Sabre travel network), doing away with their technical intermediaries: travellers no longer had to obtain their plane tickets from a travel agency. The objective for these airlines was to take back control of the relationship with their customers and do without this purely technical service undertaken by distributors, the latter subsequently refocusing on higher value-added services such as providing advice and organising travel. Technological disruptions provide a sector’s players with an opportunity to review their business model and often look into coopetition (cooperation between players who are competitors). In the financial industry, and more specifically the asset management universe, blockchain is no doubt a technological disruption capable of leading to such considerations.
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