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Foreign exchange settlement providers CLS, IBM and nine financial institutions, including Barclays Plc. and Citigroup Inc., are testing a platform to access blockchain-based applications, according to Reuters.

The companies said on Monday that the platform, LedgerConnect, will offer applications and services provided by different vendors in areas such as customer compliance checks, sanctions screening and collateral management.

While many blockchain-based applications are being tested by banks, few have gone into production. CLS and IBM hope that LedgerConnect can help speed up adoption by making blockchain-based software for financial firms more readily available, they said.

They added that building and testing each application individually by banks would be too costly and time consuming.

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In an interview with Reuters, Alan Marquard, chief strategy and development officer at CLS said, a shared platform run by an existing market structure provider can also help ensure that the applications by different vendors are vetted to meet the technical and security standards required by financial firms, CLS settles over $5 trillion of payment instructions a day for its members which include many of the world’s largest financial institutions such as Barclays and Citi.

“Barclays is participating in the LedgerConnect proof-of-concept so we can gain an understanding and experience of a new network for blockchain applications – and also test some candidate use cases on that network,” Lee Braine, from the chief technology office of Barclays’ investment bank, said in an email.

After the platform has been tested, and provided there is sufficient market demand, CLS and IBM hope to make it widely available to the industry.

LedgerConnect – which is based on a model similar to that of consumer app stores – aims to make it easier and cheaper for financial firms to use blockchain-based software.

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