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Claudio Calderón, the Company's Head of Strategic Projects, talks about the importance of this initiative for the financial market.
AUNA is the first consortium in Latin America founded by Gtd and Depósito Central de Valores (DCV) that promotes an ecosystem for companies to create their own blockchain networks and solutions based on this technology.
Claudio Calderón Pefaur, DCV's head of Strategic Projects, highlights how important it is for the company to be part of this initiative with two other prominent players in the financial market. "When AUNA was founded, the first solution that it had installed was stock exchange securities lending. And back then, this product took a week to be executed. However, it only takes 7 minutes with blockchain technology. It has been one of our most important businesses, and we aim at its development to the extent that new instruments and vendors come into play," he says.
The developed platform allows becoming an enabler to create a financial ecosystem, "where we are not only helping different companies to interact, but we are also providing the tools to create new products in this ecosystem under a safe and distributed environment," he adds.
Mr. Calderón believes that it is imperative for AUNA to continue growing to develop more products and attract more clients and ensure that large and mid-sized companies become part of this digital identity world. "This is an excellent alternative for the entities related to the Fintech world because it allows them to create, launch and market blockchain applications, establish partnerships with other companies, and become well-known among the broad network of founding companies."
With this in mind, the three founding entities launched the AUNA Open Challenge 2022 contest, aiming to set challenges and find new opportunities for local and international startups. This challenge will take place as a tournament. The winner will obtain a prize of USD 10,000 and the option to create a pilot program for the selected proposal with actual clients to market and expand their business to the following countries: Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador.
In summary, the objective of this financial ecosystem is to become an offer that focuses on digital transformation where different players in the capital market have the opportunity to renew their infrastructure with a more reliable and versatile one, which is also one of the goals that DCV set for the following years.
DCV used the same technology used by AUNA (Blockchain Hyperledger Fabric of Linux Foundation, and currently also Hyperledger Besu) to launch the e-voting platform for Shareholders' and Bondholders' Meetings, Click&Vote, in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, both solutions are managed through the platform.
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