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Swift and Chainlink’s tokenised asset experiment

Swift could leverage its global messaging network to let financial institutions trade tokenised assets at scale, but regulatory uncertainty remains a challenge.
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Swift and Chainlink have created a credible proof of concept with the power to scale tokenisation, according to Tom Zschach, chief innovation officer at Swift, and Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink.

The results of the new experiments show that financial institutions can build on existing back-end systems — minimising the level of investment needed — to transact across public and private blockchains, and leverage the Swift global messaging network.

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