Episode 247: DTCC’s Peve on using tokenization to streamline private markets

Waters Wavelength

This week, Jennifer Peve, managing director, and head of strategy and business development at DTCC, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss how tokenization could help solve some of the challenges in US private markets and how the Digital Securities Management (DSM) platform that DTCC aims to launch in 2022 can potentially help. 3:00 – Jennifer joins the podcast and gives an overview of the challenges in the private markets and how a tokenized solution can help. 7:00 – Then, she walks through how DSM looks to achieve. 10:30 – What does “good control location” mean? 16:00 – Jennifer details the genesis of Project Whitney and how it led to DSM. 18:00 – She then points to how the transaction consent engine paired the public blockchain and DSM can restrict unvalidated transactions. 22:00 – DTCC could extend DSM to other use cases in the future. 27:30 – There’s a bit more work to do before DSM launches. 30:00 – Jennifer gives her thoughts on how blockchain projects have developed in the past year.