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Sustainable finance

Blockchain offers a powerful new approach to the challenges of the rapidly growing green bond market.

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Complex data from multiple sources:
like any new segment, the global green bond market is experiencing growing pains. Not only is this hampering progress, it is quickly exposing system inadequacies.
Greenwashing:
there are many shades of green. Investors and other stakeholders need to be 100% certain that they are supporting genuinely environmentally sustainable projects.
Multiple stakeholders:
the gap between all investors and their investments needs to be bridged by unchanging real-time information.

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Across the globe, companies are accelerating sustainable finance projects.

Global green bonds issuance accelerated to over $500bn in 2021, continuing the green market expansion of the last 10 years. Issuance is currently predicted to hit $1tn between 2022 and 2025.*

*Climate Bonds Initiative

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Discover how a platform based on a powerful combination of blockchain, smart contracts, the internet of things, cloud technology and digital assets offers you the processes and mechanisms to install a powerful digital infrastructure.

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"DLT and tokenization bring efficiency and transparency to bond issuance and life cycle workflow."

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Global DLT, Crypto and E-money Lead

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Immutable truth across the entire life cycle

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Ensuring that all parties use the same data in real time. This creates trust among investors and stakeholders as the origin of green data is guaranteed.

Real-time data visibility

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A great volume of information is exchanged between parties during the bond lifecycle. The DLT platform streamlines and simplifies this arrangement and provides a ‘golden source of truth’ that simultaneously serves all parties.

Automated workflows

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Increasing efficiency - bond issuance is a highly complex and time-consuming process that involves several phases. DLT streamlines and standardizes all aspects of the bond issuance process.

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The immutable green - blockchain redefines green bonds management

Find out more about a new era of green investment, offering advanced automation, total transparency and a ground-breaking financial product for retail investors.

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Green bonds and the blockchain: a new way forward?

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A vibrant ecosystem of partners

The global financial system is opening up and collaboration is a given. Project Genesis showcases the power of partnership and collaborative technologies working in a real-time ecosystem. GFT and Digital Asset collaborated to design, build and implement the core platform.