The UK government has appointed six banks to lead the planned issuance of its first digitally native government bond, with the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot expected in the first quarter of ...

The European Central Bank has launched Pontes to settle blockchain based wholesale transactions in central bank money while preparing to invest part of its €23 billion own funds portfolio in digital ...

Clearstream will participate in the Eurosystem’s Pontes testing program, supporting the introduction of distributed-ledger technology (DLT)-based settlement in central bank money. In line with the ECB ...

Itaú Unibanco, Latin America's largest private-sector bank by assets, has partnered with digital asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets to join a tokenization pilot led by Brazil's ANBIMA. The ...

Itaú, the largest private-sector bank in Latin America, has joined a tokenization pilot led by ANBIMA to test DLT-based fixed-income and fund instruments. The bank is working with OpenAssets to ...

The Bank of England just published a report that reads like a love letter to oracle networks, and Chainlink is the main character. The DLT Innovation Challenge 2025 Final Report, published on May 12 ...

India’s market regulator has moved ahead with a pilot project for tokenized corporate bonds, testing whether distributed ledger technology can improve liquidity and settlement efficiency in the ...

A 39-member coalition including Nasdaq urged the EU to fast-track DLT pilot changes, warning Europe could lose ground to the US in tokenized finance. A group of European financial companies and ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) issued its Discussion Paper 12 (DP12) on 5 March 2026. DP12 is a basis for structured engagement with domestic and international stakeholders, to seek input and ...