KAREN JOY BACUDO Finance Editor Axiology has partnered with VIALET to enable the use of tokenised money market funds for client fund safeguarding and corporate treasury management. The arrangement gives VIALET access to eligible tokenised funds through Axiology's regulated market infrastructure. VIALET manages about €150 million in assets and processed €6 billion in gross payment

Bundesbank performed its first transaction as paying agent on DLT platform The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is issuing a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) digital bond on Pontes, the European Central Bank’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution, in what is also the Deutsche Bundesbank’s first transaction as a paying agent on the platform. Created during the

First DLT-based benchmark bond transaction by a European supranational issuer to be settled through the Eurosystem’s Pontes platform. ESM prices its first-ever digitally native bond, Bundesbank acts as issuing and paying agent, and Clearstream provides the digital market infrastructure. The bond connects digital issuance with traditional markets, including expected stock exchange listing, eligibility as Eurosystem

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Clearstream are participating in the first digital bond issuance by a European supranational issuer to be settled through the Pontes platform. Pontes is the Eurosystem platform for settling wholesale financial transactions using distributed ledger technology (DLT) directly in central bank money. The transaction marks the transition

What are your priorities as head of digital product and transformation at Clearstream Fund Services? Philippe Müller . – “We have priorities which I will follow through over the next 12 months. First, we need to scale up the business already in place, meaning the digital products we already have, notably the digital TA part

A single list of investors, shared by the various stakeholders in a fund: this is the principle behind the register that LetzToken plans to launch by the end of 2026. The Luxembourg-based company behind BlocHome and Reboost announced on 26 October that the first two funds will adopt the system in 2027, without revealing their