S&P Global Launches Risk Assessment Tool for Blockchain-Based Lending
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S&P Global has introduced a new risk assessment tool designed for the blockchain-based lending market, which the company estimates at $10 billion. The tool aims to bring traditional credit risk evaluation methods to decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols.
WHY IT MATTERS
Think of S&P Global as one of the companies that grades how risky a loan or investment is — similar to how a teacher grades a test. Banks and investors rely on these grades to decide where to put their money. In decentralized finance, or DeFi, people lend and borrow cryptocurrency using automated software on a blockchain instead of going through a bank. Until now, there has been no widely accepted way to grade the risk of these DeFi loans using traditional methods. S&P Global building a tool for this market suggests that major financial firms are taking blockchain-based lending seriously enough to create professional-grade evaluation systems for it.
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