Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance

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

Want to learn more?

Are you ready for digital green bond issuance?

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.

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

Project Genesis: a green bond tokenisation platform in Hong Kong. GFT and Digital Asset partnered with the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) to build a retail bond issuance platform.

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.

Download paper

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

David Creer

Global DLT, Crypto and E-money Lead

GFT

Immutable truth across the entire life cycle

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

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

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.

Point of view

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.

Download paper

Explore

More insights

External blog

Green bonds and the blockchain: a new way forward?

Blog

Explore more insights

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.