{"id":63800,"date":"2017-06-20T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/natixis-asset-management-to-test-blockchain-with-fundsdlt\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:30:00","slug":"natixis-asset-management-to-test-blockchain-with-fundsdlt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/natixis-asset-management-to-test-blockchain-with-fundsdlt\/","title":{"rendered":"Natixis Asset Management to test blockchain with FundsDLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FundsDLT concept, announced to the market last December in Luxembourg, is the result of<br \/>\ncollaboration between Fundsquare, InTech (subsidiary of POST Group) and KPMG Luxembourg.<br \/>\nThe platform will enable asset managers to sell funds through a new distribution channel, while<br \/>\nsignificantly reducing administration costs and the time to process transactions. FundsDLT<br \/>\nstreamlines a range of fund administration and order-routing tasks by using blockchain to automate<br \/>\nseveral processes in a secure manner. The model is applicable to a wide range of funds and does<br \/>\nnot depend on the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Matthieu Duncan, CEO of Natixis Asset Management is enthusiastic about the project:<br \/>\n <em>\u201cWe are delighted to be among the first Asset managers to test the FundsDLT platform. The<br \/>\ninitiative is truly unique and we see it as a natural development that will certainly impact our<br \/>\noperational models and benefit our clients. Blockchain technology, which Natixis is looking into<br \/>\nacross several of its business lines, shows great opportunities in terms of enhancing distribution<br \/>\nmechanisms in the asset management industry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Said Fihri of KPMG Luxembourg explained:<br \/>\n<em> \u201cWe are proud we\u2019ve attracted many prominent players of the fund industry to test FundsDLT. This<br \/>\nprovides us with confirmation that our platform and expertise are suitable challengers in the field of<br \/>\nblockchain. More actors are coming on board and we expect to make additional announcements in<br \/>\nthe coming weeks. We can\u2019t wait to see the results in June when the test phase will be complete.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fabrice Croiseaux, CEO of InTech added:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cBy using state of the art technologies, a combination of blockchain and reactive platform, it took less<br \/>\nthan a year to build a scalable and resilient decentralized solution dedicated to the fund industry. We<br \/>\nare proud of what has been done and look forward to testing how far we can go in terms of<br \/>\nperformance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><quote>FundsDLT was designed to be a market infrastructure solution of the future that will meet the needs<br \/>\nof both asset managers and international distributors while facilitating the digital transformation of<br \/>\nthe funds distribution industry.<\/quote><\/p>\n<p>Olivier Portenseigne of Fundsquare concluded:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cFundsDLT is a great opportunity to support the Asset Management industry in its Digital<br \/>\nTransformation, and blockchain will play a significant role as an enabler to create complementary<br \/>\nand alternative distribution channels and ways of operating. It was time to start a concrete project<br \/>\nand we believe we took the right approach to develop a new infrastructure with the Fund Industry<br \/>\necosystem.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natixis Asset Management, a leading affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management announced  it started testing the FundsDLT blockchain-powered platform for fund managers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":63798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1651,2007,2210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}