Under the Hood: International Settlement with DLT

Ahead of Wednesday's webinar on 'The State of International Remittance - Presented by Apifiny' this research unlock serves as an introduction ahead of the conversation.

Even once a counterparty has been found, executing the actual transaction can carry risks – the most problematic being that one side can renege on their side of the trade and run away with the other party’s assets. The risks incurred are fundamentally due to lack of transaction atomicity: in a typical exchange, parts of a trade (securities settlement) or transaction (payment settlement) can succeed while others fail.