- Driven by increasing investor desire for crypto assets and cross-border digital carbon credits on regulated and licensed platforms
- Singapore-China collaboration marks first step towards building a connected international network of digital carbon trading exchanges
- Strengthens Singapore’s position as a global hub for digital green finance in the Metaverse era
SINGAPORE and SHANGHAI, March 28, 2022 — Greenland Financial Technology Group (Shanghai) (“Greenland Financial Technology”), a core platform of Greenland Group, a global Fortune 500 company and one of Shanghai’s largest state-backed enterprises focusing on real estate, infrastructure, and finance, and MetaVerse Green Exchange (“MVGX”), a digital green exchange licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), have formed a strategic partnership to meet increasing investors’ desire for cross-border digital carbon credits and crypto-assets on regulated and licensed platforms.
In working together, MVGX and Greenland Financial Technology will leverage blockchain-powered innovation and combine financial service capabilities from their respective licensed digital green exchange and licensed digital bank to serve clients’ increasing demand for accessible crypto assets and digital carbon credits that combine with cross-border trading capabilities with the security and oversight of on regulated and licensed platforms.
The Singapore-China collaboration through MVGX and Greenland Financial Technology’s controlled subsidiary, Guizhou Green Finance and Emissions Exchange (GGFEX), also marks the critical first step towards MVGX’s mission of building a connected international network of carbon trading exchanges using its proprietary Carbon Neutrality Tokens (CNT™) designed for cross-border carbon credit trading.
In addition, they will jointly promote tokenization, or digital securitization, of green infrastructure assets and green buildings, creating channels for international capital to finance green infrastructure projects in China and other developing countries with aspirations to achieve carbon neutrality.
Asset tokenization involves creating digital tokens that are issued on a blockchain, serving as a non-fungible digital representation of either digital or physical assets in the metaverse. With blockchain, Greenland Financial Technology and MVGX customers can be assured that these tokens are verifiably and immutably owned by the owners, improving both asset-liability management and giving greater clarity and protections for investors. Blockchain can also power a more efficient real-time trading experience, enabled by faster settlement times.
Commenting on the collaboration, Dr. Geng Jing, the Director and Executive President of Greenland Group, Chairman and President of Greenland Financial Technology Group, and Chairman of Greenland Digital Technology Co. Ltd., said: “The growth of emerging technologies such as blockchain has brought about new applications that are radically transforming how easily investors can access new asset classes including both crypto assets and digital carbon credits, all the while ensuring greater standards of security, transparency, and traceability as they trade. This cooperation with MVGX allows us to safely explore and experiment with the potential of asset tokenization and cross-border digital carbon trading as we continue to raise the bar for financial innovation as an organization as well as facilitating the formation of a global interconnected carbon trading network.”
MVGX will also be working with GGFEX, as the preferred partner to assist GGFEX to establish the most advanced digital carbon trading platform and registry arising from carbon assets in China — especially China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) projects in the real estate and green infrastructure industries. This will be done through MVGX’s CNT™ which is underscored by its proprietary Non-Fungible Digital Twin (NFDT™) technology to combine the immutability of NFTs with real-time data updates, offering an immutable and continuously updated record of carbon performance. With CNTs™, GGFEX will be able to create a secure carbon registry that can set the benchmark for other VER markets in the region.
Dr. Bo Bai, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of MVGX, said: “This strategic collaboration with Greenland Financial Technology and GGFEX, by extension, marks a pivotal first step in our aspirations of creating an interconnected web of carbon exchanges. As we continue to strengthen our network with other international entities who share our vision of increasing the accessibility of green investment opportunities, we’re laying down the very foundation on which businesses across developing economies will soon be able to easily meet their sustainability commitments. From mature economies to emerging markets, we’re building a network that’s set to redefine how the cross-border trading of carbon credits can take place in a seamless, traceable way. At MVGX, we’re proud to showcase the meaningful work being done here in Singapore’s sustainability ecosystem as the country solidifies its position as a global green financial center, as a result of a rigorous and progressive regulatory environment, booming entrepreneurship, and thriving technological advancement.”
In coming together, this strategic cooperation between MVGX and Greenland Financial is a testament to Singapore’s unique position as a pioneering innovation hub in areas of digital green finance. As MVGX and Greenland Financial Technology work together, their clients will also benefit from access to sustainability-linked financial products, strengthening the ties between both countries as leaders in green finance as they work towards meeting their net-zero targets.
About Greenland Financial Technology Group (Shanghai)
Greenland Financial Technology Group is a global financial technology enterprise group headquartered in Shanghai, China. It is a subsidiary of the Fortune 500 company Greenland Group, with its focus on digital technology, finance, education, health care, science and technological innovation, and other diversified industries to promote digitalization.
Leveraging on Greenland Financial Holdings Group, Greenland Financial Technology Group is a data-driven, fully-licensed digital company that covers the full supply chain. The integration of its licenses strengthens the synergy between finance and various industries, with data driving the core of the business through digital technology while continuing to improve the mission of “Investment + Incubation + Risk Management” which has seen the group earn annual profits in tens of billions of RMB.
The Guizhou Green Finance and Emissions Exchange (“GGFEX”) under Greenland Financial Technology Group is an exchange approved and supervised by the Guizhou Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau. Asset trading venues have been transformed into environmental rights trading venues, committed to creating an integration of environmental rights trading such as carbon emission rights, pollution discharge rights, and energy use rights, and integrating green development services such as green financial services, green ecological services, and green building services – to become an all-in-one environmental rights trading center.
About MetaVerse Green Exchange
MetaVerse Green Exchange (“MVGX”) is the first regulated exchange for the metaverse era, with licenses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) including Recognized Market Operator (RMO) license, Capital Market Service License for dealings in securities, and collective investment schemes, providing custodial services, as well as exempted licenses under the Payment Service Act.
MVGX is committed to bridging crypto assets with traditional financial industries, bridging carbon trading markets from different jurisdictions, and bridging illiquid assets in the real economy with wider investor accessibility. Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, MVGX has built a world-class digital exchange platform with the best-in-class Nasdaq engines, MVGX proprietary digital asset ledger with carbon footprint tag, and rigorous compliance processes.
MVGX has two patent-pending technologies, Non-Fungible Digital Twin (NFDT™) to represent objects in the metaverse, and Carbon Neutrality Token (CNT™) to facilitate cross-border trading of carbon voluntary emission reduction credits without triggering national ownership issues (Nationally Determined Contributions).
MVGX – the exchange that makes a sustainable and greener future in the metaverse era.