Wells Fargo says it will pilot an internal settlement service, Wells Fargo Digital Cash, which will run on its first distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform.
Wells Fargo pilot internal settlement service using DLT
Wells Fargo Digital Cash will allow it to complete internal book transfers of cross-border payments within its global network using digitised cash — and for those international locations to exchange that digitised cash among themselves.
To date, Wells Fargo has successfully proven the concept of moving value between the US and Canada. The internal DLT network will be a reusable enterprise utility for Wells Fargo to build and deploy multiple DLT-based applications.
“As a result of the increasing digitisation of banking services globally, we see a growing demand to further reduce friction regarding traditional borders, and today’s technology puts us in a strong position to do that,” explains Lisa Frazier, head of the Innovation Group at Wells Fargo.
“We believe DLT holds promise for a variety of use cases, and we’re energised to take this significant step in applying the technology to banking in a material and scalable way. Wells Fargo Digital Cash has the potential to enable Wells Fargo to remove barriers to real-time financial interactions across multiple accounts in multiple marketplaces around the world.”
The pilot, planned for 2020, is expected to complete USD transfers initially, with a goal to expand to multicurrency transfers and the entire global Wells Fargo branch network. The internal DLT network is proprietary and will not be connected to any other digital cash solutions emerging in the financial services markets today.
DLT provides a permanent, highly secure and trusted record of transactions. Wells Fargo Digital Cash will run on DLT and will help Wells Fargo achieve near real-time money movement without impact to the underlying account, transaction postings or reconciliation infrastructure with international transactions (where platforms and process differ).
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