RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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"We think of BNY as modernizing a function that sits behind every single fund transaction by bringing the books and records onchain," Carolyn Weinberg, chief product and innovation officer at the 242-year-old financial services giant.
BNY, which services about $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million accounts, said moving its transfer agency onto blockchain would create a single record of ownership, cutting out the need for multiple intermediaries.
"We fully recognize you've got trillions and trillions of dollars' worth of funds that... will continue to exist on traditional rails," said Emily Portney, BNY's global head of asset servicing, the bank's largest business.
BNY did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for further information.
Baillie Gifford, a BNY client with more than $261 billion under management, will use the service for what the companies describe as the first fully native U.K.-regulated tokenized fund, according to FT. BlackRock and Dreyfus, BNY’s money-market and cash-management business, are expected to use it for planned funds.
BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and other asset managers have launched tokenized money-market funds in recent years. The funds hold short-term debt and cash but issue ownership interests as blockchain tokens.
Edwin Mata, CEO and founder of tokenization platform Brickken, estimates that Wall Street will run entirely on blockchain technology by 2030. America's biggest banks, including JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America, plan to build a shared, tokenized deposit network by the first half of 2027 to protect their deposits from the threat posed by stablecoins.
BNY does not expect the old system to disappear, FT said. The bank will keep its traditional transfer agent and says trillions of dollars in funds will remain on existing rails for years. Blockchain also brings cyber risks, including bugs in smart contracts and bridges linking networks. BNY is betting that a single ownership ledger can replace some of the costly reconciliation work that still runs through fund administration.
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