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ESMA goes live with DLT pilot
23 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The pilot builds on the existing MiFIR regulation to include tokenised financial instruments. This aims to bring pre- and post-trade transparency and market abuse monitoring to DLT-based securities

BIS completes Project Icebreaker central bank digital currency pilot
06 March 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Working alongside central banks from Israel, Norway and Sweden, the PoC evaluates the technical feasibility of making cross-border and cross-currency payments between retail CBDC systems

Vanguard launches blockchain platform in Australia
07 December 2022 Australia
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Held on R3’s Corda blockchain platform, DLTA provides a single, integrated, back-office solution for global assets

DTCC’s Project Ion live in parallel production environment
22 August 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The distributed-ledger technology (DLT) driven settlement service, Project Ion, is now processing an average of more than 100,000 bilateral equity trades daily and more than 160,000 transactions on peak days in parallel production

HSBC and IBM complete successful token and digital wallet settlement test
17 December 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

HSBC and IBM have successfully tested an advanced token and digital wallet settlement that included direct transactions between two central bank digital currencies, using the cloud

Sibos: The world where we can operate as self contained entities is ‘evaporating before us’
12 October 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The future of the financial services ecosystem will be digital and data driven, but most importantly it will be interconnected, according to Kahina Van Dyke, global head of digital channels and data analytics, Standard Chartered

Deutsche Boerse releases digital post-trade platform
06 October 2021 Germany
Reporter: Bob Currie

D7 platform targets end-to-end digital securities processing, with over 80% of German ISINs expected to be digitisable via the platform by mid-2022

TCS launches Quartz for markets
28 June 2021 India
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The new solution is aimed at MIIs such as exchanges, depositories, central banks, payment institutions, private banks, custodians and issuers

HSBC moves Corda Enterprise blockchain technology to the Google Cloud
26 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

HSBC says it is using blockchain to support the custody of future digital asset classes

HQLA^x secures €14.4m from global banks
12 January 2021 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

HQLA^x has attracted new investment for its DLT-powered securities finance platform, from BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Securities Services and Citigroup

HKEX partners with DTCC in light of new settlement acceleration platform
30 November 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The partnership between HKEX and DTCC will see HKEX Synapse link to DTCC’s institutional trade processing services

Archax authorised as first UK digital securities exchange
19 August 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Archax has been regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as the first ever digital securities exchange and custodian in the UK