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 ...

Project Agorá’s real-value testing showed how tokenized central bank reserves and tokenized commercial bank deposits can make wholesale cross-border payments faster and more transparent while ...

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, 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 ...

In March 2023, the EU became the first major jurisdiction with a dedicated regulatory framework aimed at enabling secondary trading in tokenised financial instruments. The DLT Pilot Regulation ...

Europe is moving faster on tokenisation, but not evenly. The EU, UK and Switzerland are all advancing their frameworks, though at different speeds and with different levels of legal certainty. The UK ...

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 ...