Hungarian Central Bank Launches Blockchain Platform for Mortgage Insurance Data

Hungarian Central Bank Launches Blockchain Platform for Automated Mortgage Insurance Verification Across Financial Institutions

  • Hungarian central bank launches blockchain platform for mortgage insurance verification
  • Eight mortgage providers and eleven insurers to join network, covering 622,000 policies
  • System eliminates need for borrowers to manually verify insurance coverage with banks

The Hungarian National Bank (MNB) has launched a groundbreaking distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform that streamlines mortgage insurance verification processes across the country’s major financial institutions, marking a significant step toward digitizing Hungary’s mortgage sector.

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The innovative DLT Home Insurance system creates a seamless connection between banks and insurance providers, eliminating traditional paperwork and multiple visits typically required for mortgage processing. The platform particularly benefits new homeowners and existing mortgage holders by removing the necessity to manually verify insurance coverage with their banks.

Under the previous system, mortgage applicants needed to make separate visits to their bank to prove insurance coverage for their property. The new blockchain-based solution automatically shares this information between participating institutions while maintaining strict data privacy standards in compliance with GDPR regulations.

MNB developed the platform in collaboration with the country’s banking and insurance sectors. The network will encompass eight mortgage providers and eleven insurers by mid-2024, servicing a market that currently includes 622,000 home insurance policies with mortgage cover clauses.

The system’s architecture ensures that only relevant parties – the specific bank and insurer involved in each transaction – can access individual policy data. Notably, the central bank maintains no visibility into the shared data, while homeowners must provide explicit consent for data sharing between institutions.

Similar blockchain initiatives have emerged in other markets. In the United States, Figure Technologies has pioneered blockchain-based home loans registered on their Provenance blockchain platform, which they’ve extended to other lenders. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, Coadjute has attracted bank investments for its DLT system designed to optimize the home buying process.

The implementation represents a significant advancement in reducing administrative overhead and improving data accuracy through automated reconciliation, while maintaining a comprehensive audit trail of all transactions and queries within the system.

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