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Material developments in payments, digital finance and regulation, selected for an HKMA audience.
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A formal innovation objective could make UK payments regulation more accommodating to stablecoins and other digital-money models without displacing the Bank of England’s financial-stability mandate.
A live Eurosystem bridge between DLT platforms and central bank money could lower settlement risk for tokenized wholesale assets, but fragmented legal treatment of securities could still slow cross-border scale-up.
The delay reduces immediate migration risk for banks and corporates that still need to remediate customer and counterparty address data, but it also prolongs uncertainty around ISO 20022 change planning.
This points to stablecoins moving from crypto-native transfers toward bank-grade settlement and card-adjacent payment operations inside existing financial infrastructure.
If pursued, the project could materially shorten settlement cycles for core Japanese capital-market instruments, reducing counterparty and operational risk while pushing tokenized market infrastructure closer to mainstream use.