INTRODUCING | The European Central Bank (ECB) Launches On-Chain Institutional Settlement System for Tokenised Assets
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched Pontes, a new settlement system that will allow wholesale transactions in tokenised financial assets to be settled using central bank money marking a major step in the Eurosystem’s plans to integrate distributed-ledger technology into European financial markets. Pontes is designed to provide banks and other market participants with access to risk-free central bank money when settling transactions involving assets recorded on-chain. The ECB said this was a key requirement identified during Eurosystem trials […]
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- INTRODUCING | The European Central Bank (ECB) Launches On-Chain Institutional Settlement System for Tokenised Assets
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