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Press Release of May 18th, 2021
- May 19, 2021
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: Press Release
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Ecofi joins IZNES Blockchain platform
- April 29, 2021
- Posted by: IZNES
- Categories: Asset Management, Coopetition, Fund Distribution
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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
L’ACPR a délivré à Iznes l’agrément d’entreprise d’investissement le 19 juin. Iznes est la première plateforme opérationnelle européenne de traitement des transactions sur parts de fonds en technologie blockchain. Plus de 10 milliards d’euros ont été négociés depuis le lancement en avril 2019. La plateforme offre une solution complète, à disposition des sociétés de gestion et de leurs clients investisseurs, depuis l’entrée en relation jusqu’à la tenue de registre.
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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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Blockchain and asset management: towards a new golden age
- February 24, 2020
- Posted by: IZNES
- Category: Innovation
The blockchain is a technology that allows you to make, schematically said, notarial work. All the transactions are recorded on the chain, in a forgery-proof way and forever. The use of the blockchain makes it possible to reduce the number of people involved, to speed up the processing of transactions, to transfer and store documents and thus to reduce costs.
Cette technologie va devenir incontournable pour l’industrie de la gestion d’actifs qui est très intermédiée.
