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This large vertical is not currently covered by any SIG in Hyperledger. Finance is the Ur Use Case for blockchain.
We have a Trade Finance SIG in Hyperledger. Trade Finance deals with financing international and domestic trade primarily by banks. There is exposure to the primary documents connected to trading of goods and services. On the other hand, the Capital Markets SIG will focus on Markets which deal in securities that are fungible, open, regulated heavily and have a lot more flow and participation. Please see the scope section below to get a better feel for the Capital Markets proposal.
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The Capital Markets SIG will study how Hyperledger DLTs interact with Capital Markets use cases. From issuance and trading of all instruments to continued market-making, dispersal of risk and other activities ; regulation; capital requirements; traceability, ; pre-trade analysis and valuation; post-Trade settlement with custody and bookkeeping. Are there architecture, identity, performance related considerations specific to Capital markets and DLTs. These are questions to be answered by this SIG. In the beginning we attempt to develop a taxonomy of the domain by viewing it in a couple of dimensions.
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Just like the Healthcare SIG, this might have a number of sub-groups to be decided by the participants and by the natural subdomainssub-domains, but the Capital Markets SIG can remain the overall umbrella over these sectors. The use of DLTs which is a collaborative and unifying technology can also knit together these subdomains sub-domains under the Capital Markets SIG.
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