This year, OneConnect launched a dedicated blockchain team that provides technical support, product development, and consulting services. Technology-wise, the Company has established its own blockchain underlying infrastructure to provide financial security and efficiency. The mature model of the product has made it possible for customers to engage in blockchain projects more easily and with reduced barriers to entry. Service-wise, the company’s professionals have supplied well-rounded assistance with their years of project implementation expertise.
In recognition of OneConnect’s two blockchain initiatives, the Forbes magazine has highlighted the company’s technical skills for developing smart and one-stop solutions for companies and banks to enable cross-border trade finance. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in China’s Guangdong province have started using the company’s blockchain-based lending platform.
As a result of blockchain’s unique tamper-proof nature, SMEs and commercial banks no longer face an information asymmetry. Over 480 financial institutions provide more than 1,300 financial products on OneConnect’s financing platform, which syndicates data from 34 government agencies to assess a borrower’s risk status.
More than 68 billion yuan ($10.7 billion) in finance has been provided to more than a million firms. Aside from its assistance for Hong Kong’s “eTradeConnect” initiative, which helped it make the cut. A blockchain-based Trade Finance Platform (PBCTFP) for tracking and simplifying the financing of imports and exports between China’s mainland and Hong Kong was launched in November 2021 in partnership with the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency research lab.
When OneConnect’s solutions were successfully implemented, the project was expanded to the second phase of “mainland imports, Hong Kong exports,” which was previously called “mainland exports, Hong Kong imported,” and now includes both mainland China and Hong Kong as well as both mainland China and Hong Kong.
It was in September 2018 when Hong Kong’s de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, started the eTradeConnect initiative. Regulators have launched the world’s first blockchain-based trade finance platform, which enables firms and their trading partners to conduct cost-effective trade and financing operations via information sharing owing to its sophisticated distributed ledger system.
Cross-platform connection has made trade financing easier and faster by removing the need to exchange paper papers. This has helped the Greater Bay Area’s economy grow.