85% of respondents see intraday liquidity as the key outcome of DLT and digital assets Live industry participation with DLT has increased 800% since 2020 45% of banks issued a digital asset in the ...

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On 20 February the Eurosystem announced the decision of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) to expand its initiative to settle transactions recorded on distributed ledger ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council has approved research efforts that will use central bank money to settle distributed ledger technology (DLT) transactions, as the body looks to make ...

European Central Bank (ECB) commits to distributed ledger technology settlement plans with dual-track strategy including link with TARGET Services by Q3 2026. The European Central Bank (ECB) has taken ...

Stablecoins are now mainstream, as transaction volumes in 2024 surged to $30T total, surpassing Visa's annual payments flow. Legacy rails like ACH, RTGS, and card networks are costly, slow, and ...

With volumes now over $1.5 trillion monthly, the Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) is designed to integrate distributed-ledger technology with existing front- and back-office systems to streamline and ...

The UK government selects HSBC’s Orion blockchain platform for its Digital Gilt Instrument pilot in sovereign debt markets.

Over one-third (36%) of respondents now report active DLT initiatives, reflecting continued advancement in areas such as tokenization, settlement, and secure transaction processing. In APAC, following ...