In March Citi issued its first digitally native structured note on Euroclear’s D-FMI tokenization platform, targeting distribution via its wealth management business. Now Banco do Brasil, majority owned by the state, announced that it invested $5 million in a subsequent note from the same Citi program, with the Brazilian bank describing the deal as a

Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) speaks during a press conference to announce the initial public offering of shares of insurance giant LIC, in Mumbai on April 27, 2022. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images India's ₹59 lakh crore (approximately $624 billion USD) corporate bond market is about

Terrill Dicki Sep 03, 2026 15:50 Tokenization is transforming collateral mobility with live deployments by DTCC, Broadridge, and others, reshaping institutional finance. Tokenized collateral is moving beyond pilot programs and into live production, with major financial institutions deploying ledger-based solutions to reduce inefficiencies, improve liquidity, and cut costs in global capital markets. Key players such

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has opened a consultation that primarily explores using conventional central bank reserves for the settlement of tokenized transactions on distributed ledgers. That would involve synchronization between a DLT platform and the existing RTGS systems (RITS and FSS). The most novel aspect of the paper is the RBA’s thinking about

BNP Paribas, the Eurozone’s largest bank by assets, has joined the sandbox of the Commercial Bank Money Token (CBMT) initiative, and Dutch bank ABN AMRO also now appears among the listed participants. The deposit token network has until recently been a largely German affair, with Commerzbank, DZ Bank, Helaba and UniCredit among the participants alongside

During the past couple of years Broadridge‘s distributed ledger repo (DLR) solution has grown significantly. Two years ago it was processing around $1.5 trillion in monthly transactions, rising to $5.9 trillion a year ago and $7.4 trillion last month. That was just using US Treasuries as tokenized collateral. Now it is adding support for other

Securitize and Socios have announced a partnership to develop the Socios Equity Token, a framework for regulated tokenized equity offerings of minority stakes in professional sports teams. The project is expected to be the first launched through Securitize's European Trading & Settlement System, which operates under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. The partnership places Chiliz's