Major Canadian Bank Files Patent To Make Credit Scores ‘Transparent’ Via Blockchain

The Royal Coffer of Canada (RBC), reportedly the country’s better bank, filed a apparent for a acclaim account belvedere appliance Blockchain technology this accomplished fall, according to the apparent appliance from the US Apparent and Trademark Office appear March 15.

The apparent describes a Blockchain-based acclaim account belvedere area “credit annal are recorded appliance blocks affiliated by identification data. The acclaim almanac food actual and predictive advice about borrowers acclimated to compute acclaim ratings.”

According to the patent, the acceptable address of artful a acclaim account is “not transparent”. Barter are not consistently abreast back assertive abstracts affects their acclaim score, nor do they “have the accoutrement to booty ascendancy of their acclaim score.”

With broadcast balance technology as declared in the patent, barter would be “notified back third affair acclaim checks appear or back the acclaim account changes.” For example, in the case of a absent bill acquittal that abnormally afflicted their acclaim score, consumers would be beatific a acclaim alert.

With the proposed Blockchain acclaim account platform, a “helpful visualization” of all of the abstracts complex in free a acclaim account would be available, appropriately “empower[ing] a borrower with acclaim knowledge.”

The apparent additionally addendum that the proposed acclaim account belvedere would be able to accept acclaim abstracts from added sources than a acceptable acclaim bureau.

This is not RBC’s aboriginal attack into agenda balance technology. In September of aftermost year, the coffer appear that they were appliance the Blockchain-based Hyperledger to adumbration US-Canada interbank settlements. The CEO of RBC had additionally accepted Blockchain aftermost fall, acquainted that it has a “chance to transform aggregate from our basic markets, and our trading businesses, our aegis adjustment businesses, appropriate into our retail franchise.”