Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), the French government investment company, started exploring the blockchain space in 2015. Since then, Nadia Filali has led the organization’s Blockchain and Crypto-asset division. During that time, the CDC has been involved in some of the highest profile blockchain projects in France, which have informed Filali’s views on the tokenization of financial assets.
On the one hand, Filali is a blockchain evangelist and sees the benefits of tokenizing digital assets in terms of pure efficiencies, never mind the potential for new business models. Nonetheless, there are hurdles. The issues include:
Filali highlighted the efficiency gains from security tokens because the end-to-end process is executed on a blockchain in real-time. This removes the counterparty risks from a typical two-day settlement and a significant chunk of intermediary costs. All the parties no longer need to spend time reconciling with each other.
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