Abstract: Improvements in distributed ledger technology for capturing, maintaining and updating data for asset-backed securitizations are described. The invention provides a distributed ledger platform which automates the capture of specified data regarding the underlying financial assets, including owners, trustees, servicers and other parties associated with asset-backed securitizations, and stores and maintains the data in a blockchain to provide users with a secure, reliable, immutable and distributed ledger of the data and to generate custom data reports of information stored in the ledger. An offchain database may be maintained in synchrony with the blockchain to allow for reduced computational load. The invention also provides a mechanism for managing changes in the data using a smart contract based consensus mechanism, for example, to record securitization party replacements in an automated manner.