

Yet none have had actual day-to-day participation of regulators. For instance, Tassat said this week it's an active competitor in this space that has conducted $1 trillion of transactions on a private permissioned blockchain ledger, works with regulated banks and was a participating FedNow showcase service provider.

To be sure, in many of these initiatives, regulators have been well informed and did not register any objection. Many of these attempts have wilted due largely to one factor: lack of involvement from regulators. The proof of concept tested an idea that has been floated for years: Why not use a blockchain-like distributed ledger to handle payments between companies instantly, even when banks and systems like Fedwire are closed? Many entities have come up with their own approaches to this idea, including Ripple, Tassat, Figure Technologies and its affiliated Provenance Foundation, Silvergate Capital and Signature Bank. dollar remains the international currency of choice. Such a system would help ensure that the U.S. "The ability to move dollars in any amount on a 24-by-7 basis would be a game changer for global users of the dollar," McLaughlin said. But gaps in the service window remain that create long delays, he said. Improvements have been made in international payments, he said, citing Swift's Global Payments Innovation product, which lets members track and trace payments in U.S. dollar for international settlement," McLaughlin said. "So many commercial entities outside of the U.S. Sullivan & Cromwell provided legal services, and Deloitte provided advisory services. The technology was provided by Digital Asset and SETL and hosted by Amazon Web Services. Bank, Wells Fargo, Mastercard and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The ledger and network design was recently tested by several banks and other financial services players in a 12-week proof of concept that included Bank of New York Mellon, Citibank, HSBC, PNC Bank, Swift, TD Bank, Truist Bank, U.S.
