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Singapore says Blockchain payments project
ready for commercial roll-out
Singapore has developed a Blockchainbased
payments network that could
enable faster and cheaper international
settlements, authorities said, adding that the
next step was a commercial roll-out.
The final phase of the years-long ‘Project
Ubin’ saw the Monetary Authority of
Singapore team up with state investor
Temasek and J.P. Morgan to develop the
prototype multi-currency payments network.
“An international settlement network,
modelled after this payments network
prototype, could enable faster and cheaper
transactions than conventional cross-border
payments channels,” MAS and Temasek said
in a joint statement.
foreign currency denominated securities as
well as other use cases.
Blockchain, a digital ledger of transactions,
leaped to prominence as the technology that
underpins the first digital currency, Bitcoin.
It has since attracted global attention
because it can be used to track, record and
transfer assets across all industries.
To spur further industry development, MAS
and Temasek said it would make some of
the technical specifications for the prototype
network available to the public.
Temasek is an investment company
headquartered in Singapore with a
multinational staff of 800 people. It is a
generational investor, seeking to make a
difference, always with tomorrow in mind.
They said that commercial applications
of the prototype include cross-border
payments in multiple currencies, foreign
currency exchange and settlement of
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