2018-6-27 12:35 |
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city’s de facto central bank, is planning to work with regulators in Abu Dhabi to develop a cross-border trade finance system that is built with distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The HKMA signed a fintech co-operation agreement on Tuesday with the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which supervises the financial market of the U.A.E.
The HKMA said under the co-operation agreement, it will collaborate with the FSRA to develop innovative financial technology projects, with a specific interest focusing on DLT utilization in international trade finance.
Nelson Chow, chief fintech officer of the HKMA said in the announcement:
“We are particularly pleased to start a dialogue with FSRA on the opportunity to build a cross-border trade finance network using distributed ledger technology.”
As previously reported by CoinDesk, the HKMA and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have started testing a Hong Kong Trade Finance Platform (HKTFP), an HKMA-led and DLT-based trade finance proof-of-concept since last year.
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