Trade financing in blockchain
blockchain is an important concept of bitcoin. It is essentially a decentralized database. At the same time, as the underlying technology of bitcoin, it is a series of data blocks generated by using cryptographic methods. Each data block contains a batch of bitcoin network transaction information, which is used to verify the effectiveness of its information (anti-counterfeiting) and generate the next block
blockchain is unified in the whole network, so it is logically centralized. From the perspective of architecture, blockchain is based on peer-to-peer network, so it is decentralized. From the perspective of governance, blockchain makes it difficult for a few people to control the whole system through consensus algorithm, so it is decentralized.
Blockchain finance is actually the application of blockchain technology in the financial field
blockchain is an underlying technology based on bitcoin, and its essence is actually a decentralized trust mechanism. Through sharing in distributed nodes to maintain a sustainable database, the security and accuracy of information can be achieved. The application of this technology can solve the trust and security problems in the transaction, and the blockchain technology has become an optional direction for the future upgrading of the financial instry. Through the blockchain, both parties of the transaction can carry out economic activities without the help of the third-party credit intermediary, so as to rece the cost of the global transfer of assets
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since 2016, the major financial giants have also heard the news and launched blockchain innovation projects one after another to explore the possibility of applying blockchain technology in various financial scenarios. In particular, Puyin group took the lead in creating a "blockchain +" standard digital currency. Standard digital currency refers to the process of assets identification, evaluation, right confirmation and insurance completed by a third party organization. After careful digital algorithm, it is written into the blockchain to form the standard corresponding relationship between assets and digital currency, which is called standard digital currency
in order to realize the great leap forward development of blockchain finance, promote the new development of China's economy, accelerate the global asset circulation, and realize the dream of rejuvenation that has been struggling for generations, Puyin group will hold the Guiyang strategic development ceremony of Puyin blockchain finance in Guizhou on December 9, 2016, at which the discussion on the realization of digital circulation of assets, block chain financial transaction mode, and block chain financial transaction mode will be held It also discusses the application of blockchain service and social public instry
In the traditional supply chain finance, financing difficulty, high financing cost and cumbersome financing process have always been one of the bottlenecks restricting small and medium-sized enterprises to become bigger and stronger. Banks rely on the ability of core enterprises to control goods and regulate sales. For the sake of risk control, banks are only willing to provide factoring services to upstream suppliers (limited to first tier suppliers) with direct accounts payable obligations of core enterprises, or provide prepayment or inventory financing to their downstream distributors (first tier suppliers). As a result, the demand of secondary and tertiary suppliers / distributors with huge financing demand can not be met, the business volume of supply chain finance is limited, and the small and medium-sized enterprises can not get timely financing, which will easily lead to proct quality problems and damage the whole supply chain system
to solve these problems, we can make use of the characteristics of decentralized, tamper proof and distributed ledger of blockchain technology to build a blockchain supply chain financial platform
The core enterprise issues a / R certificate to the distributor. After the distributor signs the receipt, it indicates that it has signed the purchase and sales contract and the core enterprise delivers the goods Because of the shortage of funds, distributors need to borrow money from finance3. After the financial institutions have approved, the amount of loans will be sent to the core enterprises
The distributor will repay the loan and interest after selling the goodsMoody's, the world's famous bond rating agency, has given 127 blockchain cases, from points to transaction clearing, from document storage to supply chain management, from cross-border payment to supply chain finance, and various applications emerge in endlessly
among so many applications, supply chain finance has attracted much attention, and its commercialization has made rapid progress
this is because, first of all, the supply chain finance scene has a trillion level market scale, and the ceiling is high enough. Secondly, this scene naturally needs multi-party cooperation, but there is no traditional centralized institution in governance, and it needs to use blockchain to build trust. At the same time, technically, this scene does not need high concurrency, and the current blockchain technology can meet it
1. Supply chain finance is a trillion level market
supply chain finance refers to the comprehensive financial procts and services provided to the upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain by taking the core enterprises and their related upstream and downstream enterprises as a whole, relying on the core enterprises, taking real trade as the premise, and using the method of self compensating trade financing
according to the different financing collateral, financial institutions divide the supply chain finance into accounts receivable, prepayment and inventory financing, among which the scale of accounts receivable is particularly large< According to the data from the National Bureau of statistics, at the end of 2016, the accounts receivable of China's Instrial Enterprises above designated size were 12.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 10% over the same period of last year, which generated a huge financing demand for enterprises. Compared with the huge accounts receivable, China's annual commercial factoring volume was only about 200 billion yuan in 2015. It can be seen that there is still a large number of supply chain demand has not been met, so the development space of supply chain finance instry is huge
2. How to solve the pain point of supply chain finance with blockchain
pain point 1: the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in the supply chain is difficult and the cost is high
because banks rely on the ability to control goods and regulate sales of core enterprises, for the sake of risk control, banks are only willing to provide factoring services to upstream suppliers (limited to primary suppliers) with direct accounts payable obligations of core enterprises, Or provide advance payment or inventory financing to its downstream distributors (primary suppliers)
as a result, the demand of secondary and tertiary suppliers / distributors with huge financing demand can not be met, the business volume of supply chain finance is limited, and SMEs can not get timely financing, which will easily lead to proct quality problems and damage the whole supply chain system
blockchain solution:
we issue and run a kind of digital bill on the blockchain, which can be split and transferred freely in the case of transparency and multi-party witness
this model is equivalent to making the credit in the whole business system conctive and traceable, providing financing opportunities for a large number of SMEs that could not have been financed, greatly improving the efficiency and flexibility of bill circulation, and recing the capital cost of SMEs
according to statistics, in the past, traditional supply chain finance companies could only provide financing services for about 15% of suppliers (small and medium-sized enterprises) in the supply chain, while after adopting blockchain technology, 85% of suppliers could enjoy financing convenience
pain point 2: as the main financing tool of supply chain finance, the use of commercial bills and bank bills at this stage is limited, and the transfer is difficult
the use of commercial bills is subject to the reputation of enterprises, and it is difficult to control the arrival time of bank bill discount. At the same time, if we want to transfer these bonds, the difficulty is not small
because in the actual financial operation, banks are very concerned about the legal effect of "Notice of transfer" of accounts receivable claims. If the core enterprise cannot sign back, banks will not be willing to extend credit. It is understood that the bank is very cautious about the legal effect of signing the "Notice of assignment" of creditor's rights, and even requires the legal representative of the core enterprise to go to the bank to sign it face to face. Obviously, this way of operation is extremely difficult
blockchain solution:
an alliance chain can be built between banks and core enterprises, which can be used by all member enterprises in the supply chain. By using the characteristics of multi-party signature and tamper proof of blockchain, the transfer of creditor's rights can get multi-party consensus and rece the difficulty of operation
of course, the system design should be able to achieve the legal notice effect of bond transfer. At the same time, the bank can trace the transactions of each node and draw a visible transaction flow chart
pain point 3: it is difficult for the supply chain financial platform / core enterprise system to prove its innocence, resulting in high risk control cost of the capital side
in the current supply chain financial business, banks or other capital sides are concerned about the authenticity of the transaction information itself in addition to the repayment ability and willingness of the enterprise, and the transaction information is recorded by the ERP system of the core enterprise
although ERP tampering is difficult, it is not absolutely credible. Banks are still worried that core enterprises and suppliers / dealers collude to modify information, so they need to invest manpower and material resources to verify the authenticity of the transaction, which increases the additional cost of risk control
blockchain solution:
as a "trusted machine", blockchain has the characteristics of traceability, consensus and decentralization, and the data on the blockchain has a time stamp, so even if the data of a node is modified, it can not cover the sky. Therefore, blockchain can provide an absolutely trusted environment and rece the cost of risk control on the capital side, Solve the bank's doubts about being tampered with information
3. How should blockchain companies cut into supply chain finance
in terms of market choice, we believe that blockchain start-ups should choose the segments with high enough ceiling, such as household appliances, automobile, retail, clothing, pharmaceutical instry, etc. On the one hand, these instries have a broad market, on the other hand, their supply chain management infrastructure is relatively perfect, and the early cost of block chain is relatively small
we believe that there are two modes for blockchain companies to enter supply chain finance
the first is to directly cooperate with core enterprises / platforms to provide them with the underlying solutions of blockchain. After accumulating enough data, they can provide financial services to the investors by building alliance chain Alliance chain mode)
in view of the fact that the blockchain itself can not solve the problem of risk control, enterprise level risk control still needs to focus on strong core enterprises at the present stage. At the same time, obtaining the support of core enterprises can also effectively solve the problem of customer acquisition, because a large core enterprise generally has thousands of various suppliers
at present, domestic blockchain companies start from core enterprises, including Bubi and Wanglu technology. Bubi has launched an alliance chain "Bunuo" for supply chain finance, linking banks, core enterprises and factoring companies. Bunuo is based in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, radiating southeast business, and digging deep into the field of supply chain finance, Previously, it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Yigang
the second mode is to provide supply chain management services, such as traceability, tracking, visualization, etc., to integrate information flow, logistics and capital flow, and then engage in financial services Private chain mode)
this mode is equivalent to building an application scenario with blockchain. Just like Alipay, if Ma Yun did Alipay directly, it would be difficult to do so because there was no application scenario, so Taobao first served the real economy. With Taobao, Alipay emerged as a centralization trust scenario and grafted other applications on Alipay before accomplishments.
at present, among the domestic blockchain companies, bitse and food premium are the ones that adopt the supply chain service mode
for example, vechain provides a method of anti-counterfeiting and traceability, by implanting an NFC chip into each commodity, registering the commodity on the blockchain, so that it has a digital identity, and then recording all the information of the digital identity through the account book maintained jointly, so as to achieve the verification effect. At present, vechain procts have been connected with more than 10 instry benchmark customers, and millions of IDS are running on the chain
4. Build a supply chain financial exchange in three steps
from the perspective of implementation path, the application of blockchain in the field of supply chain finance can be realized in three steps
as a prerequisite, we need to build a blockchain + supply chain finance alliance, whose participants include supply chain finance platform, core enterprises, professional financial intermediaries, financiers, factoring institutions, etc
each participant needs to undertake corresponding obligations. For example, the platform is responsible for providing basic services such as supply chain information and customer information, while the core enterprise understands the instry situation, has control over the enterprises in the supply chain, and is responsible for risk control
professional financial intermediaries can integrate and analyze the platform information, and provide customized supply chain financial procts, such as personalized blockchain electronic bills. The fund side includes banks, Internet financial institutions and other customers who are responsible for docking the corresponding risk preference
after the establishment of alliance chain, we can start the three-step strategy
the first step is to put the data in the supply chain alliance on the chain, use the characteristics of blockchain to make it tamperable, and provide services such as data authentication and traceability
the second step is asset digitization, which turns warehouse receipts, contracts, and blockchain bills that can represent financing needs into digital assets, which are unique, tamper proof, and non reprocible
the third step is the transaction of digital assets. The supply chain financial platform will be transformed into a financial asset exchange, which will transform the non-standard enterprise loan demand into standardized financial procts for token, docking investment and financing demand, and concting value trading
finally, blockchain technology will effectively enhance the liquidity of supply chain financial assets, mobilize new financing tools and risk control system, help cover the long tail market of SME financing, and promote supply chain finance as a service.
of course, not only the financial instry is interested in blockchain, but also other instries are interested in blockchain. For example, recently, a content publishing platform developed by using blockchain technology, decent, has emerged abroad, which is similar to the domestic we media platform.
in fact, the combination of blockchain technology and finance is not accidental. In short, blockchain is a distributed shared ledger and database, which is decentralized, tamper proof, traceable, etc. Finance is cooperation based on trust. These characteristics of blockchain lay the foundation for creating trust. Blockchain technology is of great significance in solving the financial problems of high credit risk, low capital utilization efficiency and high payment processing cost
in reality, bitcoin is not equal to blockchain, and digital currency is only one of the applications of blockchain technology in the financial field. In the fields of supply chain finance, payment and clearing, trade finance and financial transactions, "blockchain +" has rich application scenarios and imagination
let's start with supply chain finance. The core enterprises in the supply chain can transfer their credit to the micro enterprises through the blockchain, which can solve the financing problem of the micro enterprises to a certain extent. For example, Zheshang Bank has developed a receivables chain platform based on blockchain technology, which transforms the enterprise's receivables into electronic payment settlement and financing tools. ICBC e-letter network financing financial service platform launched by ICBC has registered more than 500 supply chain enterprises such as China Railway and China Merchants Group, and has issued more than 3 billion yuan of loans
in terms of trade finance, by recording the core documents and key processes of trade financing business, both sides of the trade can obtain real information, and with the help of intelligent contract, the application of blockchain technology can effectively promote the formation of market trust and rece the financing cost of enterprises. Data show that since the first phase of the trade finance blockchain platform project of the people's Bank of China was put into operation more than one year ago, more than 30000 businesses have been connected to the chain, more than 5000 businesses have occurred, and the business volume is about 75 billion yuan
instry insiders pointed out that although the application prospect of blockchain technology is broad, there are not many projects that are truly implemented and proce social benefits, and blockchain technology is in the early stage of development, which still needs to be treated rationally
the application fields of blockchain include digital currency, token, finance, anti-counterfeiting traceability, privacy protection, supply chain, entertainment, etc. with the popularity of blockchain and bitcoin, many related top domain names have been registered, which has a great impact on the domain name instry.
in a few days, the safe also released the blockchain development plan. It seems that the whole world will be transformed by blockchain. Many people have a kind of blockchain application, which will give the currency transaction and foreign exchange transaction a false identity
blockchain has a natural anti censorship international nature in terms of asset transaction and circulation, and can freely and conveniently circulate without the constraint of traditional concurrent management. On the one hand, there is a great risk, so the safe also said that in China, only RMB can be used for pricing, and anything that may threaten this basis should be prohibited. In a short period of time, it may be difficult for blockchain to achieve anything at the level of foreign exchange transactions. The foreign exchange bureau mentioned the application scenarios of blockchain technology in cross-border trade financing and macro Prudential Management. This direction belongs to the pure technology application direction, which is less related to transactions. At present, it is also the direction that the top priority is to develop, using blockchain technology to optimize the real instry
how to optimize it? Because blockchain has the characteristics of traceability, distributed transparency, tamper proof, etc., for example, in cross-border trade, the data of related parties involved in trade are linked and opened to third parties (such as banks) with permission. In the past, enterprises may need more practical asset mortgage to borrow money from banks, Now, by associating reliable trade data on the blockchain, the bank can know the future cash flow of the enterprise, and can use the operation of the enterprise as asset mortgage to give credit. This will greatly optimize the allocation of assets
another example is the patient information in the hospital. The traditional scenario is that the data of each hospital is independent. Every time you go to a new hospital, you will be asked to do a booklet or a set of examinations. If there is a medical chain open to all hospitals and all information is recorded in this account book, you can avoid a lot of plication and simplify efficiency
it is clear that the priority is to develop blockchain technology to optimize and transform traditional instries, with the focus on the combination with the real economy. I am also very optimistic about this, but in terms of asset trading, the expectation of currency trading and foreign exchange trading should not be too high. After the excitement, it will be calm. FX technology, fxmap in Assa community