In a landmark development for the European Union’s financial sector, Slovenia has issued the first sovereign digital bond in the region. This bond issuance, valued at 30 million euros, represents a significant step towards the digitization of financial instruments within the EU. The digital bond, which carries a 3.65% coupon rate and is set to […]
Italy’s state-owned development bank, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (CDP), and Intesa Sanpaolo, the country’s largest lender, have successfully completed a pioneering digital bond issuance using blockchain technology. This marks the first transaction under Italy’s new digital asset regulations. A Landmark Transaction As reported by Krisztian Sandor from CoinDesk, the 25 million euro ($27.22 million) […]
Clearstream, DekaBank, and DZ Bank have jointly issued two tokenized bonds valued at €5 million each, using distributed ledger technology (DLT). These issuances are part of the European Central Bank (ECB) trials aimed at exploring the potential of DLT for settling wholesale transactions in central bank money. The entire process, from the transaction of the […]
