With a ledger based on blockchain technology, UK Finance—the trade group for finance in the United Kingdom—may greatly improve the nation’s financial industry, which handles $14.5 trillion in payments yearly. Following the Regulated Liability Network (RLN), a blockchain-based ledger meant to enable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized assets, this comes following the successful experimental phase of the network.
UK Finance underlined in its Sept. 17 statement that the RLN may inspire creativity and bring fresh financial capabilities including programmable payments. Working with eleven big banks, the experimental phase included cooperation; UK Finance is now advocating further interaction with public entities and authorities to advance the RLN. The trade organization thinks the RLN might cut fraud and help to lessen failed payment expenses.
Emphasizing that a cooperation with authorities is essential to make this a reality, Jana Mackintosh, managing director of payments for UK Finance, says the private sector is ready to invest in the future of commercial bank money.
Designed to help commercial banks handle the $14.52 trillion in payments handled yearly in the UK, the RLN makes use of distributed ledger technology (DLT.). Along with allowing banks to record, move, and settle money, the platform would let them tokenize, programmable payments, lock and unlock money.
The RLN studies revealed among other important results that the platform might give new financial enterprises a “common point of access,” therefore allowing them to interact with incumbent institutions and payment systems. Particularly in preserving the “singleness of money” and advancing innovation inside the UK payments sector, the RLN also fits the objectives outlined in the July discussion paper of the Bank of England.
Beginning in April, the tests included influential members of the financial industry like Visa, Citi, HSBC, and Barclays.
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