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DeFi protocols with appropriate guardrails will bring significant efficiencies to FIs: report

Khairani Afifi Noordin
Khairani Afifi Noordin • 3 min read
DeFi protocols with appropriate guardrails will bring significant efficiencies to FIs: report
New business opportunities are likely to emerge as financial institutions take advantage of the composability of DeFi protocols. Photo: Albert Chua/The Edge Singapore
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Building full-scale financial services with institutional decentralised finance (Institutional DeFi) is able to bring financial institutions substantial cost savings if they have a participation strategy ready to capture its value, according to the “DeFi – The Next Generation of Finance?” report.

This is as code dramatically reduces middle and back-office operations across firms and intermediaries, the joint report by Oliver Wyman Forum, DBS, Onyx by JP Morgan and SBI Digital Asset Holdings.

Existing DeFi protocols are not designed for financial services. It thus needs safeguards such as identity solutions to enable trust and compliance, says the report.

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