UBS AG has just priced its inaugural senior unsecured digital bond, a 375 million Swiss franc-denominated three-year bond with 2.33% coupon (ISIN: CH1228837865). The digital bond has the same instrument structure, legal status and rating as a traditional UBS AG senior unsecured note but is the first ever digital bond by a banking institution globally […]
A new tokenisation platform to support and accelerate the growth of digital assets HSBC announces that it will launch HSBC Orion – its new proprietary tokenisation platform that financial institutions and corporates will be able to use to issue digital bonds based on distributed ledger technology. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently exploring the […]
LedgerEdge, the next-generation ecosystem for trading, announced that it is live with the first regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT), the technology underpinning blockchain ecosystems and digital markets. LedgerEdge is powered by R3’s Corda, a scalable, permissioned peer-to-peer distributed platform that supports applications which foster and deliver digital trust between […]
