Aug 28, 2026 At this year's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, a discussion of Darrell Duffie's paper on tokenized finance and the perimeter of central banking highlighted the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in wholesale finance. According to the source, tokenisation allows financial assets and money to be represented as digital tokens on programmable
... blockchain-based shared ledger. The first distributed ledger technology (DLT) transactions facilitated through Taurus are expected to be announced ...
HM Treasury has announced plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payment systems. HM Treasury and City Minister Lucy Rigby have confirmed plans to introduce a new secondary objective for the Bank of England, requiring the central bank to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms
Japan is preparing to develop a financial infrastructure that would allow near-instantaneous, around-the-clock settlement of stock and Japanese government bond transactions through distributed ledger technology (DLT), commonly known as blockchain. According to reports, this initiative aims to modernize the countrys payment and securities settlement systems, reducing the delays that currently exist between trade execution and
The European Central Bank (ECB) is moving ahead with plans to build an integrated European market for tokenised assets, Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Wednesday, warning that fragmented digital platforms could deepen divisions in Europe’s capital markets. Speaking at the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Symposium on “Future of payments: trends and innovations in Germany and
The European Central Bank is stepping up efforts to build an integrated tokenized financial market. Executive Board member Piero Cipollone has called for common standards, central bank money and coordinated regulation to prevent blockchain-based finance from becoming a collection of disconnected platforms. In a speech at Deutsche Bundesbank’s symposium in Frankfurt, Cipollone said tokenization could
... distributed ledger technology (DLT) within regulated financial infrastructure. ... Blockchain-Based Ownership: The securities would be recorded using ...
Digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has integrated its tokenization and custody platforms with Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. Taurus said Wednesday in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph that its clients can connect their existing digital asset infrastructure to the ledger for payments using bank-issued tokenized deposits. The first client integrations are expected to go live within days
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the launch of Pontes, a tokenized finance project, in the third quarter of this year. The initiative, revealed by ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone, aims to connect distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms used in financial markets with TARGET Services, the Eurosystem’s existing payment infrastructure. The core objective
The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to launch the long-anticipated “Pontes” ecosystem with qualified distributed ledger technology-enhanced platforms that provide services, including tokenization, to the European wholesale market. The ECBs Governing Council approved Pontes in 2025, which takes a two-track approach: the first track, Pontes, provides a short-term offering to the market, including a
