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

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

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

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

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

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HSBC launches 24/7 Tokenised Deposit Service, enabling instant cross-border settlements and redefining the future of treasury management. HSBC has introduced its Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS) in Singapore, expanding its blockchain-based payment platform beyond Hong Kong. The service enables 24/7 real-time settlement and was first adopted by Ant International, which successfully completed real-time SGD and USD

CMC Markets , a global leader in online trading for retail, professional and institutional clients, has successfully completed the private placement of a shareholding in the UK using distributed-ledger technology (DLT). The use of a digital token to represent the shareholding marks a new phase in the company’s digital strategy.   The project, delivered by

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