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The distance between a trade and a transfer of title: delivery versus payment, finality, atomicity and the settlement systems being rebuilt.
The central bank has drafted guidance for clearing houses that want to accept tokenized bonds, cash and gold from their members. It adds no new rules, and stablecoins stay outside for now.
The company that holds $114trn of securities for America's markets now lets 20 banks and brokers turn some into tokens that can move around the clock. Only a few dozen securities qualify so far, and the cash side is still a plan.
Singapore's BLOOM project, where regulators, banks, card networks and crypto firms work out how stablecoins and tokenized deposits can move between countries, now has three central banks. Visa, Mastercard and Ripple joined too. No timetable was given.
Seturion, the exchange group's settlement venture, can now settle tokenized securities under an EU trial regime. Other venues can trade through it without a licence of their own, but the trial's size cap still limits how far it can grow.
Citadel Securities pledged a tokenized US government bond for an overnight loan from BNY, the bank that dominates that market. BNY names no ledger, sum or rate, and one trade publication asks why a token was needed.
Roughrider Coin, issued by VersaBank's US bank on Fiserv's new digital asset platform, went live on 1 October for payments between North Dakota's banks and credit unions, minted against dollars held in custody accounts and burned on arrival, with the…
CSD BR said on 29 September that BTG Pactual fund shares it holds will be mirrored on the public XRP Ledger as tokens it can freeze and claw back, while its own systems stay the official record.
The Commission registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organisation on 28 September, permitted to clear only fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Coinbase calls it the first USDC-native clearing house.
tZERO said on 28 September that its broker-dealer will give qualified US firms on Lynq, a settlement network on a private Avalanche chain, access to Goldman Sachs' Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund.
Three CFTC divisions added four answers to their crypto FAQ on 24 September.
UK Finance said on 24 September that the Great British Tokenised Deposit pilots had completed their first live customer transactions: two remortgage completions in which funds were locked and then released automatically, and one consumer marketplace…
SoFi Bank says settlement of its debit and credit card transactions across Mastercard's network now runs in SoFiUSD, on a programme it puts at $25bn of annualised volume.
Pontes went live on 21 September, linking market ledger platforms to TARGET Services so that the cash leg of a tokenized trade settles in central bank money. Thirteen market participants, four ledger operators and the Bundesbank have onboarded.
Arc goes live with gas payable in USDC and no native token required, and Circle has minted the full 10bn supply of one anyway.
London clears most of the world's spot gold, and the regulator wants to know whether tokenizing it would help.
Three issuers have raised Rs 1,025 crore, about $107m, in bonds issued as native tokens on a ledger owned by India's depositories, with the cash leg settled in wholesale CBDC. SEBI claims a world first and the claim is narrowly drawn.
DBS, OCBC and UOB moved Singapore dollars between each other as tokenized deposits, which is the first time a domestic interbank market has done it.
SIX and TWINT joined UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, BCV and Swiss Stablecoin AG in a live sandbox for CHFD, a franc token running since June.
The two banks executed what they call the first successful weekend United States dollar payment between Singapore and New York using tokenized deposits over the Swift Digital Ledger, on Saturday 5 September 2026, settling in minutes against an…
Cari, the shared tokenized deposit network built with six US regional banks, raises $32.5m entirely from banks. Its whole argument is that the token stays a bank liability inside deposit insurance rather than becoming a claim on a reserve pool.
Distributed Ledger Repo will take G7 government securities alongside US Treasuries. August volume was $7.4tn at $351bn a day, the lowest daily average in the five months this desk has recorded from the company's own releases.
A 421-page rewrite of rules untouched since the early 1980s would permit a transfer agent to keep its master securityholder file on a distributed ledger, and would start counting the issues where one does.
The Eurosystem published the 61 members of the Appia contact group, the forum that will advise it on settling tokenized assets in central bank money.
Standard Chartered and HSBC say they have executed the first live tokenized deposit transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger, issuing, transferring, recording and settling between two banks' own platforms.
Africa Finance Corporation raised CHF 350m of five-year paper on 12 August, listed on SIX Swiss Exchange and deposited with SIX Digital Exchange under its existing $5bn note programme. About 90 per cent of demand was Swiss domestic.
Distributed Ledger Repo moved an average of $365bn of repurchase agreements a day against tokenized collateral, which Broadridge reports as a 28 per cent rise year on year.
Eleven institutions will secure the stablecoin issuer's own layer-one network before its 16 September mainnet, and the DTCC will make Arc a supported chain for tokenizing the assets it custodies from the second half of 2027.
The fourth-largest US bank says corporate and commercial clients will move, program and settle funds around the clock on its own blockchain, starting with a limited dollar to pound exchange and widening through 2027.
The BIS says twenty-eight institutions and central banks moved around CHF800,000 of live tokenized deposits across borders, the first time the project has put real value at stake.
BNY said in July 2026 that it plans to pilot tokenized US Treasuries on its private blockchain by the end of 2026 and offer round-the-clock settlement for both conventional and tokenized Treasuries in 2027.
DTCC started limited production trading on its DTC Tokenization Service in July 2026, covering Russell 1000 constituent stocks, major ETFs and US Treasury securities.
The European Central Bank published a study of the tokenised bond market in Issue 33 of its Macroprudential Bulletin on 13 April 2026, comparing matched samples of tokenised and conventional European corporate bonds.
Legal designation and a cash leg that was already someone's liability separate the wholesale settlement systems now carrying volume from the multi-jurisdiction platforms that handed themselves over or stayed prototypes.
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