Raiffeisen Bank Branch Issues Mortgage Using Blockchain Platform

A branch of the Raiffeisen Bank International in Russia is said to have issued an electronic mortgage via local blockchain Masterchain according to a news report on September 24.

In the document where all the information about the parties in the transaction is contained, there’s also the type of property that was purchased and also the credit loan and the duration is published in a decentralized depositary system. This system is based on a Russian network named Masterchain that can transfer valuable data via blockchain. This project has been developing since 2016 by a group of local banks led by the Central Bank of Russia.

The director of the IT department for Raiffeisen said that the document that is verified with an electronic signature is sent to the Russian state agency that is in charge of collecting data about real estate. After this process is finished, the mortgage token is moved to the file storage which is basically the Raiffeisen Bank. This is the first kind of e-mortgage in Russia as the director notes.

He also believes that if the country is connected to the platform It might just accelerate the process of getting all the needed data on mortgage and making a deal without third parties. Further negotiations are being pushed so other banks can join in as well. The next step for this bank would be to use blockchain to purchase contracts and similar real estate transactions. There are two more Russian banks according to Kommersant that want to be involved in this process and are planning on issuing e-mortgages by the end of 2018.

The blockchain technology has already been tested for real estate business in the Netherlands. This is why other major Russian banks have expressed their interest in blockchain and for this reason, the Central Bank of Russia has already held a successful ICO test in order to create a draft of a possible crypto regulation.