Industry
Capital Markets
Unlocking Exponential Future Growth in Capital Market Firms
Solution
Quartz™ - The Smart Ledgers™
Quartz™: Creating collaborative ecosystems using resilient technology
Highlights
- Quartz for Markets helps market infrastructure institutions benefit from the market opportunity around tokenized assets by supporting quick and easy launch of innovative new services with the full integration of traditional market infrastructure.
- Available on-premise and on cloud, the solution supports both public and private blockchain platforms and multiple token standards across multiple asset classes.
- The solution is built from TCS’ experience of deploying market infrastructure solution across 25 markets worldwide and has been applauded in global forums.
In this article
Challenge
Tokenization of real-world assets now offers an alluring opportunity to the global investor community.
Innovation, powered by blockchain, has opened up new marketplaces for tokenized asset classes, including newer types of illiquid and exotic assets. It democratizes the access of assets to mass market investors, enabling people to turn fractional, small-value investments into high-value assets. Tokenization has changed the market structure given its inherent potential for trading across jurisdictions with instant settlement.
To meet the market demand, organizations need capabilities to trade tokenized assets of all kinds, operating under the precision and robustness associated with the traditional system.
Solution
Quartz™ for Markets supports MIIs including exchanges, depositories, central banks, payment infrastructures, private banks, custodians, and issuers with the full lifecycle of tokenized securities across asset classes while being fully integrated and interoperable with traditional market infrastructure.
In addition to the traditional asset classes such as equities and bonds, the solution has built-in support for newer asset classes such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and exotic assets such as rare coins, and jewelry
Also, the solution includes an intuitive, low-code development kit to help your institution meet future needs by extending the capabilities of Quartz for Markets. The solution can be deployed on a choice of public and private DLT (distributed ledger technology) platforms.
The solution helps you conduct any or all of the following marketplace activities:
Convert real world assets such as artwork ,and real estate into digital tokens and market them.
Invest in tokenized asset-backed digital tokens for real estate, gold, and art alongside purely digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and loyalty points.
Manage the full lifecycle of asset-backed digital tokens, including token issuance custody.
Conduct secondary market trading activities through order management, matching, atomic settlement, and surveillance.
Service digital assets with eVoting and general meeting services.
Comply fully with relevant KYC/AML regulations.
Settle with flexibility and liquidity using the customer’s choice of fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and digital currencies.
Interoperate with market infrastructure for equity, fixed income, warrants, and other traditional financial instruments.
Benefits
By offering both traditional and tokenized assets flows on the same platform, you can provide better services to your customers.
Faster settlements help your institutions with more liquidity and a range of economic benefits.
The simplification and replacement of traditional financial assets with smart contracts reduce the process and cost involved, thus making them more affordable and accessible for your customers.
The smart contracts permanently record transactions and make them immutable and instantly executed, thereby reducing data duplication and fraud risks.
The Quartz Advantage
- Quartz solutions are built on co-existence, integration, and Interoperability philosophy, enabling seamless integration with third-party solutions, legacy applications, messaging middleware, and various blockchain based systems and networks, thereby reducing entry barriers to blockchain adoption.
- The solutions provide an agile framework for faster development and deployment of business applications on a choice of blockchain platforms.
- Backed by awards The Asian Banker Middle East and Africa (Best Fraud Prevention Technology Implementation Award 2023), Financial Technology Forum (Best New Post Trade Solution of the Year 2022), and Asset Servicing Times (Outstanding Innovation Award 2022), Quartz can help you operate at the forefront of technology innovation and spearhead blockchain adoption successfully within your enterprise and beyond.
