Releasing and optimising physical asset collateral Increasing ability to respond quickly to the market Scaling operations to meet growth in volumes Building trust through transparency in the market
Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX), the world’s first commodity exchange in physically settled diamonds, today announced that it has successfully partnered with Kynetix, the physical commodity digitisation expert, and Everledger, supplier of blockchain and distributed ledger infrastructure, to complete the first part of a Proof-Of-Concept
Introduction In the introductory article the overall approach to commissioning a delivery system for a futures exchange was outlined, and at the end, it was suggested that the place to start an analysis was with the warehouse. The assumption being that the point of delivery
Releasing and optimising physical asset collateral Increasing ability to respond quickly to the market Scaling operations to meet growth in volumes Building trust through transparency in the market
Introduction This is the first in a short series of articles aimed at exploring the issues faced by those commissioning a system to automate physical deliveries in the international commodity trade-market; i.e. to provide a trusted, secure system which is based on a legally binding
Releasing and optimising physical asset collateral Increasing ability to respond quickly to the market Scaling operations to meet growth in volumes Building trust through transparency in the market
Physical commodities have traditionally been traded in bilateral over-the-counter (OTC) deals or through brokers. But these opaque OTC trades are set to be replaced by exchange-based trades in a bid to improve transparency for market participants and help increase market liquidity. The predominance of OTC
One particular trend we’re seeing increasing activity in is that of emerging economies who produce specific commodities looking at ways to ‘reclaim’ some of the ‘value add’ that occurs around the commodities supply chain which today benefits the large, international infrastructure providers. Many commodities in
