Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Anatoly Popov, on the sidelines of Investor Day, told reporters that Sber has opened access for individuals to the digital financial assets (DFA) platform. Writes about this RBC Crypto.
According to a bank representative, the new platform functionality is available to individuals who are Sberbank clients. They have access to the ability to deposit and withdraw funds for settlements on transactions with digital financial assets. The functionality is currently being tested on a limited group of users.
Popov also noted that for the bank’s retail clients, investing in DFAs will become another digital way of placing funds. Over the entire period of operation, 63 DFA issues were registered in the Sber information system, and the amount of the issue for these issues amounted to about 2 billion rubles.
In August of this year, Sberbank conducted a lending transaction through digital financial assets (DFAs) for 100 million rubles. under real property collateral. The DFA in this transaction was assigned the role of a debt obligation secured by collateral in the form of the company’s movable property and goods in circulation, while the decision to issue contained information about the subject of the collateral.
In November, Sber implemented the first transaction in Russia to provide a bank guarantee, where a regular agreement was replaced by a smart contract on a blockchain platform. In addition, the bank carried out a lending transaction, the collateral of which was digital financial assets (DFAs).
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