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Banque de France and Euroclear to tokenise short-term debt
13 October 2025 France, Belgium
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The tokenisation project intends to provide central operational and administrative efficiencies, while improving transparency and security for market participants

Clearstream reaches €10 billion digital issuance volume on D7
21 October 2024 Luxembourg
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The platform has processed over 250,000 digital issuances, with up to 15,000 new digital issuances added on a weekly basis

HKMA introduces new project to accelerate tokenisation adoption
28 August 2024 Hong Kong
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Using experimental tokenised money, the Sandbox will enable experiments for both payment-versus-payment and delivery-versus-payment use cases

Cboe Clear Europe participates in ECB experiment on DLT
19 July 2024 Europe
Reporter: Jack McRae

These experiments aim to explore the potential of distributed ledger technology and how it could improve efficiency for clearing and settlement

Clearstream, DekaBank and DZ Bank issue tokenised bonds on DLT
01 July 2024 Germany
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The transactions mark the first institutional-grade issuances in Germany on DLT using wholesale digital central bank money, says Clearstream

Taurus-PROTECT and Taurus-CAPITAL now available on Stellar
25 June 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Klea Neza

The company says this integration will cover the custody of any Stellar tokenised assets through Taurus-PROTECT, as well as asset-agnostic issuance on the Stellar blockchain through Taurus-CAPITAL

SNB announces continuation of wCBDC Pilot on SDX
20 June 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Klea Neza

The next stage of the pilot aims to gradually include additional financial institutions and to serve a broader range of financial market transactions

DAF: panellists divided over the future of digital money
16 April 2024 UK
Reporter: Sophie Downes

Panellists at the Digital Assets Forum discussed the role of stablecoins and CBDCs across the financial ecosystem

Swift completes second testing phase for its CBDC interlinking solution
26 March 2024 Belgium
Reporter: Bob Currie

This second testing phase has extended the project coverage to include a more complex set of use cases, employing Swift’s solution to support transactions across simulated digital transactions, tokenised assets and foreign exchange networks

BIS Innovation Hub confirms six new projects in its 2024 programme
23 January 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

This first batch of projects for 2024, focusing on CBDCs, green finance, cybersecurity and steps to eliminate financial crime, builds on a further eight projects that are currently ongoing and 12 that were completed during 2023

Delta Capita and Montis expand commercial partnership
09 January 2024 London
Reporter: Jack McRae

Delta Capita and digital financial markets infrastructure Montis have expanded their commercial partnership to cover four new market infrastructure use cases

Tokenbridge launches services suite
28 November 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Token aggregator and distribution platform Tokenbridge has launched a suite of services for fund managers, financial advisors and their clients