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Swiss banks advance tokenisation PoC as foundation for alternative financial infrastructure

13 December 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Participants indicate that trial lays foundations for an alternative Swiss post-trade infrastructure functioning without CCP or CSD, enabling reduced cost and complexity across the securities transaction lifecycle

Jewel Bank launches USD stablecoin with Polygon

12 December 2022 Bermuda
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bank is the first to offer a bank-grade, bank-issued and fully-reserved USD stablecoin on Polygon and in the Web3 space

Bosonic settles first trade using cross-custodian net settlement

09 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Decentralised financial market infrastructure business Bosonic has settled a USDC and ETH trade using cross custodian net settlement

KfW issues first German digital fixed-income bond

08 December 2022 Germany
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bond has a €20 million volume, a coupon of 2.381 per cent and a term of two years

HashKey and SEBA Bank partner on digital assets solution

06 December 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Lucy Carter

HashKey will become SEBA Bank’s primary digital asset trading and market development partner in Hong Kong and SEBA Bank will, in turn, become HashKey’s banking partner of choice in Switzerland

DTCC publishes CBDC pilot findings

30 November 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

DTCC has published the findings of its pilot programme investigating how tokenised securities and a wholesale CBDC would operate in the US settlement infrastructure

SEBA Bank opens Hong Kong subsidiary

30 November 2022 Hong Kong
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Swiss crypto bank SEBA Bank has opened a new Hong Kong office for its subsidiary, SEBA Hong Kong

FV Bank launches digital assets custody and settlement service

09 November 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Bitcoin is the first digital asset to be supported by the feature, with Ethereum, USDC and USDT expected to follow in the near future and a wider range to be included in phase two of the custody service

Union Bank of the Philippines continues digital assets exploration

02 November 2022 Philippines
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bank will use METACO's Harmonize as the foundational platform for its expanding digital asset service provisions, with the solution managing governance and operations

B2C2 launches Options Chain

02 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Crypto liquidity provider B2C2 has gone live with electronic options trading for the over-the-counter crypto market via its single dealer platform Options Chain. Digital asset bank Sygum will be the first to use the service

ValueExchange report emphasises importance of tokenisation preparation

01 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The ValueExchange has published a report on ‘Doing Tokenisation Right,’ offering insights and advice to market participants who are unsure how, or why, to start their tokenisation journey

BIS completes CBDC cross-border payments pilot

26 October 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank for International Settlements has completed a pilot with four central banks as part of its Project mBridge initiative that aims to deliver cross-border payments between commercial banks using central bank digital currencies

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