Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan and one undisclosed Tier-1 bank were involved in the project. IHS Markit, Thomson Reuters and Capco also participated.
The experiment, which lasted several months, involved establishing a blockchain trade processing network via hosted and locally installed deployments of Axoni Core, the vendor's proprietary distributed-ledger software. Automated lifecycle management was tested, as well as synchronization of single-stock, index and portfolio swaps. The firms conducted 133 test cases, all of which were a success, to examine functional and non-functional capabilities of blockchain technology in the equity derivatives space.