2019-11-06 Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

Goals

  • Review developments of last couple of weeks in our projects
  • Create a roadmap for future and inter-meeting discussions

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
2 minAnti Trust Policy & Code of Conduct

Antitrust Policy found here.
Hyperledger Code of Conduct.

10 min Introductions: Welcome members All
10 minCash on ledger: spotlight@Vipin BharathanFATF guidelines
20 minStatus and plans from the project leads/interested membersCMSIG-Projects  
RestAOB





Future Items

Nov 20, 2019 presentation by Marley Gray Principal Architect Azure Blockchain Engineering Cloud and Enterprise Microsoft - and chair of technical group for Token taxonomy Institute.

Quantum computing and security settlement

Ontological approach to capital Markets (Semantic Web insights)

CDM derivhack - insights.

Recordings

Audio

Minutes

  • Anti-trust and code of conduct presentation
  • Introductions: Being a place where people talk about their projects and their interests in the capital markets infrastructure
    • Gary from Intain talked about their efforts to tokenize Assets on the blockchain- motorcycle loans in India- ABS (asset Backed Securities)- He will present their solution sometime in the future. On hyperledger fabric. Difficult process of valuation, monthly cycle that had a 20 day delay was shortened to a day or so. Trustees of the ABS have fiduciary duty to report on the performance of the assets; the demo and other details will make clear how this is achieved. Have presented on numerous Security Conferences. Introducing trust into the lifecycle of digital assets. Working on oilwell tokenisation.
    • Manivannan Pillai of Swapshub. Working on a product based on CDM from ISDA. Also on digital asset custody based on MPC- more on this later in the notes
    • Milena Kohlhofer from citi securities services working on a. Custody related to securities on Blockchain also working on citi-investments for evaluating BC companies for suitable investment.
    • @Ofer Avi-Neri NY Security Token Exchange Working on security tokens - linking existing securities (bonds, equities) to digital tokens. We discussed difference from utility tokens and stable coins (briefly)
    • Former user (Deleted) working in Virtusa Research. XBRL taxonomy, built some protected channels for issuers; Also an Identity profile Management platform.
  • Short presentation on FATF plenary meeting on stablecoins. Link to issues of digital Identity through the medium of KYC/AML/TF etc. - Vipin Bharathan - we will discuss further, cash on ledger including CBDC and other stablecoins.
  • It was recognized that most of the participants were interested in tokenisation of one form or the other and the custody of these tokens
  • Mani spoke briefly about CDM, adherence to CDM enhances interoperability. Still being worked on. Swapshub focuses on CDM for swaps using Corda. Sees opportunities for leveraging CDM for other assets. He referred to CDM slides on our projects page (in the sub project-standards)
  • Mani also spoke about MPC for custody and was in talks with CFTC and SEC on this count- nothing to do with CDM- but related. Google has open-sourced some of their MPC code- Promised to share this.
  • Milena Kohlhofer spoke about the latest release of the Token taxonomy framework and promised to share the email from them which she did (see link for github latest)

Action items

  • Milena KohlhoferTTI link to latest paper to prepare for Marley's talk.
  • Manivannan Pillai link to google initiative on MPC
  • @gary from Intain- present demo of their product: Motorcycle loans on  HL fabric and speak about the obstacles