Eurosystem selects members for the Pontes market contact group
10 October 2025 The Eurosystem has selected a number of financial market participants and central banks to join the Pontes market contact group. This selection process followed a call for expressions of interest launched in July. The contact group will support and facilitate focused dialogue with the financial market concerning the Pontes project, the aim
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Hong Kong Bonds Tokenization Support – How Can Hong Kong Subsidize Your Bond Tokenization Expenses?
On 28 November 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority ("HKMA") launched the Digital Bond Grant Scheme ("DBGS") and began accepting applications. The DBGS will run for an initial period of three years, providing financial support of up to HK$2.5 million to eligible digital bond issuers. The DBGS is designed to promote the growth of Hong
The Future is Now:
FLASH FRIDAY is a weekly content series looking at the past, present and future of capital markets trading and technology. FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company. Tom Carey, Broadridge “Emerging” technologies are no longer emerging, they have arrived. From artificial intelligence to digital assets and tokenization, technologies that just a few years
Banque de France, Euroclear launch joint project to tokenise Negotiable European Commercial Paper
Institutional News Maria Nikolova October 10, 2025 Banque de France and Euroclear announced today the launch of a joint project (‘Pythagore’) to tokenise Negotiable European Commercial Paper (NEU CP), marking a significant step toward modernising short-term debt markets through distributed ledger technology (DLT). The NEU CP market represents the largest short-term debt market in the
DLT, Smart Contracts are “Coming of Age”: BoE’s Mills – The Full FX
In a speech that also floated tokenised assets as collateral, Sasha Mills, executive director of financial market infrastructure at the Bank of England, also noted that blockchain, smart contracts and stablecoins are entering mainstream finance as the technology becomes embedded in existing processes and structures. Mills revealed that the BoE is prepared to be “the
HSBC extends tokenized deposit service to Singapore
HSBC has introduced its tokenized deposit service ( TDS ) in Singapore, extending the blockchain-based payment capability beyond its initial launch in Hong Kong. The service enables 24/7 real-time instant settlement and was adopted by Ant International, which became the first client to complete real-time SGD and USD digital token payments between its entities’
UK To Appoint Digital Markets Champion To Lead Financial Tokenization Strategy – FinanceFeeds
The United Kingdom government is preparing to appoint a new Digital Markets Champion, a key figure in its strategy to modernize and digitize the nation’s wholesale financial markets. The announcement, highlighted in reports from Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance, marks a major milestone in the UK’s plan to accelerate tokenization and strengthen its position as a
So where’s the flood of digital bond issuances?
Keith Mullin Wasn’t the upbeat tone of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s ( AFME ) October 6th Distributed Ledger Technology-Based Capital Market Report a victory of hope over experience, i.e., that the continued rapid growth in global DLT adoption in capital markets and emergence of new participants and platforms signal increasing interest in
