Day: April 23, 2026

Ant International partners Standard Chartered, OCBC for blockchain settlement

Image by Ledger Insights Today Ant International made two Singapore announcements about its blockchain-based Whale platform for international treasury management. Standard Chartered integrated with Whale to provide instant and 24/7 liquidity in Singapore dollars. Plus, Ant signed a deal with OCBC bank to enable 24/7 real-time payments between Singapore and Malaysia. Ant has two goals …

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UBS Digital Cash piloted for blockchain-based multi-currency payments

Image by Ledger Insights UBS is the latest bank to launch a blockchain based solution targeted at corporates and institutions. Given there are often delays with cross border payments, the appeal is the ability to instantly move money between different UBS branches dotted around the world. So far it has piloted domestic transactions and international payments in …

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Bank of Korea signs agreement with regulators for CBDC, tokenized deposit trials

Image by Ledger Insights In September the Korean press reported that the central bank was preparing for a tokenized deposit trial targeting around 100,000 people. It follows the Bank of Korea announcing formal plans for such a trial a year ago, in combination with a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) for interbank settlement. Yesterday …

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