Brazilian BV Bank Tests Tokenized Model for Vehicle Sales

BV Bank, a Brazilian bank leader in vehicle loans, is running a pilot that uses tokenization to manage vehicle financing and sales operations. The first phase of the tests involves automating consumer-to-consumer vehicle sales processes, including the delivery of tokenized money in exchange for the ownership of the vehicle.

Brazilian BV Bank Pilots Tokenization Model for Car Sales

Last week, BV Bank, a Brazilian leader in car loans, announced it was testing a tokenized system to automate its car sale and financing processes. The test carried out jointly with Consensys and Parfin, providers and designers of the platform’s smart contracts, will evaluate the benefits of using tokenized money for car payments.

The first phase of the test involves using tokenized money and a digital certificate of car ownership to expedite a consumer-to-consumer car transaction in a simulated environment. The idea behind these tests is to have a working platform to expedite these operations once Drex, Brazil’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), gets released.

Brazil is the sixth largest car market in the world, with more than 10 million units sold in 2023, considering new and used car transactions. In August, when the Central Bank of Brazil revealed the official name of the digital real, one of the use cases specifically mentioned was the simplification of car transactions.

Carlos Bonetti, executive director of risks and operations at BV Bank, stated:

The idea is that the bank is responsible for conducting the entire financing operation, from simulation to lien write-off and finalizing the sale of the vehicle.

Bonetti stressed that the transparency this new tokenized system offers to the parties involved in a transaction would reduce operational and financial risks. He detailed that, when implemented, this would offer “numerous benefits to the customer experience, including the possibility of immediate settlement of the amount to be paid and operational simplification.”

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