Capital and Markets Innovation
Advancing transparent and verifiable climate finance through AI-driven analytics, blockchain-enabled tokenisation, and emerging digital technologies supporting mitigation, adaptation, and microfinance mechanisms.
Pillar Overview
DTID advances capital and markets innovation by embedding digital trust into financial systems, instruments, and governance. Our work applies blockchain, artificial intelligence, and emerging digital technologies to improve verification, disclosure, reporting, transparency, and accountability across digital finance and market infrastructure.
How We Do It
DTID strengthens capital and markets innovation through research, technical development, policy engagement, and cooperation with public-sector and market stakeholders.
Mission
"Cultivate an enabling environment for trusted digital finance and market innovation."
Key Outputs
Feasibility studies, technical assistance projects, policy briefs, research publications, and training programmes.
Core Areas of Work (DIV-01)
Thought Leadership
Publications supporting the global dialogue on digital trust, financial innovation, blockchain governance, and responsible market infrastructure.
Research and Innovation
Development of digital tools for financial instruments, digital assets, tokenisation, data integrity, and market transparency, including pilot deployments to test real-world applications.
Capacity Building
Training public-sector counterparts, institutions, and market participants on digitalisation, financial technology, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and governance.
Market Integrity
Strengthening transparency, fraud resistance, verification, and accountability across digital finance and market systems.
Global Standards Leadership
DTID contributes to international standards where digital trust, market integrity, blockchain, and financial governance intersect. DTID is a Category A liaison to ISO/TC 322, contributing to international standards that guide responsible financial systems, and also contributes to ISO/TC 307 on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
ISO Committees / Forums
- ISO/TC 322 — Sustainable Finance (Category A liaison)
- ISO/TC 307 — Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Project Spotlights
G20 Digital Asset Regulation and Market Innovation Frameworks
DTID, formerly the Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI), developed a blockchain-enabled framework for performance-linked financial instruments in the UK real estate sector. The work supported transparent capital allocation, measurable performance indicators, and stronger accountability in financial markets, and was selected as a finalist in the G20 TechSprint global competition.
Key Features
- Performance-linked financial instruments
- Transparent allocation of capital using blockchain
- Real-time monitoring of performance indicators
- Increased access to digital finance tools for SMEs
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