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The outcome will determine how much compliance burden sits with stablecoin issuers versus exchanges and wallet providers, shaping onboarding, redemption and monitoring costs across the payment-stablecoin stack.
If the law’s scope is narrower than intended, some stablecoin structures could avoid reserve, licensing, or compliance obligations, creating uneven rules across functionally similar products.
If the pilot proceeds as described, it would test whether tokenised debt rails can shorten settlement times in India’s corporate bond market and create a blueprint for broader digital securities issuance.
The deal suggests large-bank funding programs are starting to use tokenized issuance rails that plug into existing settlement and investor workflows, which could lower frictions for future digital bond issuance.
Extending trading hours without always-on collateral and cash movement could leave firms with higher settlement friction, liquidity risk and operational bottlenecks.