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This signals that a major central bank is trying to make tokenised collateral usable in core market infrastructure without carving out a separate regime, which could shape how quickly wholesale tokenisation moves from pilots into mainstream clearing.
This pushes tokenized securities closer to mainstream market infrastructure by giving large brokers and banks a live DTCC-linked path for moving tokenized positions, while showing that operational constraints and settlement design still need to mature.
The deal could make it easier for inbound and outbound travelers connected to China to pay across Tencent and Visa acceptance points while giving Visa a stronger commercial foothold as China market access opens further.
This could widen practical spend and funding options for users in underbanked markets by linking a consumer wallet network to enterprise stablecoin payment rails.
The survey suggests tokenized money is moving from experimentation toward operational treasury and payments use among large corporates, which could accelerate demand for bank-issued tokenized deposits and related settlement infrastructure.