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Standard Chartered launches tokenized deposit solution with Ant International

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Image by Ledger Insights Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong and Singapore subsidiaries today announced Today Standard Chartered in Hong Kong and Singapore announced the launch of tokenized deposit solutions through an integration with Ant International’s blockchain treasury platform Whale. While the bank first announced the collaboration a year ago, this marks the move from pilot to production. Between …

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Standard Chartered, Coinbase expand digital asset partnership

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Image by Ledger Insights Standard Chartered announced today that it is expanding its partnership with Coinbase to explore the development of digital asset trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions for institutional clients. The collaboration builds on an existing banking relationship in which Standard Chartered enables real time SGD transfers for Coinbase customers. Margaret Harwood-Jones, Global …

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 ECB plans mid 2027 digital euro pilots

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Image by Ledger Insights During a meeting at the Italian banker’s association ABI, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone revealed a few new details about the digital euro. Firstly, a pilot is planned for mid 2027, provided the central bank digital currency (CBDC) gets the regulatory go ahead this year. It’s unclear whether …

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StanChart forms JV for HK stablecoin with HK Telecom, Animoca Brands

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Image by Ledger Insights Last July Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong announced a collaboration with Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and web3 firm Animoca Brands to explore stablecoin issuance as part of a Hong Kong sandbox. Now the bank says it is creating a joint venture with the same partners in order to apply for a license …

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ECB responds to market calls for permanent wholesale CBDC including from Deutsche Börse

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Image by Ledger Insights As part of a recent Deutsche Börse paper on the European capital markets union, the company called for a permanent wholesale CBDC (wCBDC). This follows a series of wholesale DLT settlement trials that ended last November. Twice during the last couple of weeks, ECB Director Piero Cipollone has stated that a short …

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StanChart partners stablecoin issuer StraitsX

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Image by Ledger Insights Standard Chartered has partnered with Singapore stablecoin issuer StraitsX to provide cash management and custody services for two of its stablecoins in Singapore dollars and US dollars. StraitsX provides the most popular Singapore dollar stablecoin XSGD and has been involved in numerous trials run by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), including …

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Circle exec’s Korean visit: no plans to issue a won stablecoin

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Image by Ledger Insights During the past week Circle’s President Heath Tarbert visited Korea and held meetings with the central bank and big four commercial banks, KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana and Woori. Multiple news outlets reported that Circle has no intention of participating in the issuance of a won stablecoin. Instead, Mr Tarbert aimed to …

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Stock exchange NPEX partners Tether backed stablecoin firm Quantoz Payments

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Image by Ledger Insights Three organizations based in the Netherlands are collaborating on the issuance of a MiCAR compliant euro stablecoin, EURQ. Technically, it’s an ‘electronic money token’ (EMT). Stablecoin firm Quantoz Payments is partnering EU multilateral trading facility NPEX and its blockchain partner Dusk, aiming to support regulated finance on the Dusk blockchain. EURQ already …

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State Street’s tokenization partner floats private token standard for public blockchains

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Image by Ledger Insights Taurus, the tokenization and digital asset custody technology firm, has unveiled a new open source standard for private token transactions on permissionless blockchains. It developed the open source standard for smart contracts in association with the Aztec Foundation that oversees the Layer 2 blockchain protocol, which uses zero knowledge proofs (ZKP) …

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Hong Kong’s unveils roadmap to become global digital asset hub

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Image by Ledger Insights Today Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published a 12 point ASPIRe roadmap for the territory to become a global digital asset hub. Until October last year, it had licensed two cryptocurrency exchanges. That figure rose to ten yesterday with the licensing of Bullish, the exchange founded by Block.one and …

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