SETL banks on DLT for infrastructure overhaul

Amid the hype around cryptocurrencies, Marjan Delatinne, payments lead at SETL, outlines why the central bank digital currency and market infrastructure space holds promise.

by Joy Macknight

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SETL banks on DLT for infrastructure overhaul

On January 19, Banque de France (BDF) announced it had completed a live central bank digital currency (CBDC) transaction — the settlement of a fund — using the SETL blockchain, which powers the IZNES fund record-keeping platform.

A few weeks later, Marjan Delatinne officially joined SETL — a specialist in building distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based solutions for financial markets — to head up its payments business. It was this real-life deployment of a CBDC that encouraged her to work for the start-up.

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Joy Macknight

Joy Macknight is the editor of The Banker. She joined the publication in 2015 as transaction banking and technology editor. Previously, she was features editor at Profit & Loss, editorial director at Treasury Today and editor at gtnews. She also worked as a staff writer on Banking Technology and IBM Computer Today, as well as a freelancer on Computer Weekly. She has a BSc from the University of Victoria, Canada.