Tokenisation

    News on regulatory considerations, market adoption, technical infrastructure and use cases for tokenising traditional assets like real estate, securities, and commodities on blockchain platforms.

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    Tokenisation

    Hong Kong: Prototype Created to Issue Electronic Bills of Lading

    By Manesh Samtani | 21/03/2024

    The eBL prototype, developed by GSBN and Ant Group,  is being used in the HKMA’s wholesale CBDC sandbox project.

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    DeFi & Web3

    OECD Assesses DeFi’s Role in ASEAN to Promote Financial Inclusion

    By Manesh Samtani | 20/03/2024

    Innovation associated with DeFi, provided in a regulated and compliant form, could offer possible financial inclusion benefits such as in MSME financing.

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    CBDCs

    HKMA Launches Second Phase of e-HKD Testing

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 15/03/2024

    Phase 2 will focus on programmability, tokenisation and atomic settlement, leveraging the ‘Project Ensemble’ sandbox.

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    Cryptocurrency

    Thai SEC to Allow Private Funds to Invest in Spot Crypto ETFs

    By Editors | 14/03/2024

    SEC Secretary General Pornanong Budsaratragoon said the funds can only be offered to institutional investors and ultra-high-net-worth investors.

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    Custody & Infrastructure

    Major FIs Conclude Blockchain Pilot on Canton Network

    By Editors | 13/03/2024

    Dozens of participating FIs settled transactions across 22 different permissioned blockchains that were connected to the Canton Network.

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    Tokenisation

    CFTC Publishes First-Ever US Taxonomy for Digital Assets

    By Editors | 11/03/2024

    The digital asset taxonomy is one of three recommendations advanced by the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

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    CBDCs

    HKMA Commences wCBDC Project to Drive Tokenisation

    By Editors | 07/03/2024

    Project Ensemble could help to forge new financial market infrastructure that can bridge tokenised assets and money in transactions, the HKMA said.

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    Payments & Settlements

    BNM to Upgrade RENTAS, Including to Facilitate CBDC

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/03/2024

    BNM’s modernisation plan for RENTAS includes future-proofing the system and enhancing its risk management functionalities.

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    CBDCs

    UDPN Launches “All-in-One” Digital Currency Sandbox

    By Editors | 05/03/2024

    The sandbox contains technologies for CBDC, tokenised deposits, stablecoins, purpose-bound money, and security and bond tokenisation systems.

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    Tokenisation

    Rabobank Executes €2b in Commercial Paper Transactions on Blockchain

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 29/02/2024

    Rabobank has completed a series of pilots to execute commercial paper transactions on a blockchain platform called ‘Ubermorgen’.

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