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Hana Bank digital bond settles T+0, lists first on SGX

Hana Bank's $100m digital bond on Euroclear's D-FMI settled T+0 and became SGX's first digital bond listing, months before Korea's tokenisation rules arrive.

Bastion’s national trust bank charter has a six-month clock

Bastion's national trust bank charter from the OCC must close within six months, a third of the time Agora and Catena get, on a $6 million capital floor.

DTCC’s October tokenisation launch starts a three-year clock

DTCC's tokenisation service enters full production in October 2026 under an SEC no-action letter withdrawn three years after launch. Renewal is unaddressed.

Four of Euronext’s five alternative CSDs are Euroclear’s

Euronext Securities becomes default CSD for Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris equity and ETP settlement on 21 September. Four of five alternatives are Euroclear’s.

Partior’s instant payments still leave its four settlement banks to square up the old way

Partior settles client-bank payments instantly, but DBS, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered still square up the old way until at least Q1 2027.

Oasis Pro’s Fund/SERV seat settles in fiat, not on-chain

Ondo's Oasis Pro Markets is Fund/SERV's first tokenisation member, but DTCC's rail settles in fiat through NSCC and no named Ondo fund is live on it yet.

Deutsche Bank’s crypto custody licence is due 40 months after filing

Deutsche Bank will custody Bitcoin, Ether, USDC, EURC and EURAU, but expects its BaFin licence only in October - 40 months after it first applied in 2023.

Crypto.com’s Form 1-N names 10 stocks and no perpetual

Crypto.com's Nadex filed a 515-page Form 1-N naming 10 US stocks. The SEC held no vote, and the single-stock perps Crypto.com plans are still unapproved.

S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin to rate code alongside issuers

S&P Global will buy OpenZeppelin, the auditor behind $37trn in onchain transfers, extending Ratings from issuer creditworthiness into smart contract code.

Cyber Resilience Act puts crypto wallet makers on a 24-hour clock

EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting now binds crypto wallet makers: 24-hour exploit warnings, fines up to €15m, and old devices in scope. Who is exposed.

Broadridge extends digital assets platform to US wealth firms

Broadridge has extended its digital assets platform to US wealth firms, wiring Anchorage Digital and Galaxy in first as the default custody counterparties.

Solana’s 4,096-byte transactions: opt-in to send, not to read

Solana's transaction size limit rose to 4,096 bytes at epoch 1035. Sending v1 is optional; reading it is not, and unprepared RPC calls can fail whole blocks.

Block files for Builders Bank, an uninsured bitcoin trust bank

Block has applied to the OCC for Builders Bank, an uninsured trust bank for bitcoin custody. Its filing hides the capital; its 10-Q shows a 3.8% bitcoin margin.

Visa brings onchain credit to stablecoin card settlement

Visa is feeding VisaNet settlement data to onchain credit lenders for stablecoin card programs, but Rain makes up about $2bn of the $2.5bn zero-default tally.

U.S. Bank’s USBDC stablecoin goes live on Stellar with clawback

U.S. Bank's USBDC stablecoin settled its first cross-border payment on the public Stellar network — and the pilot deliberately tested freeze and clawback.

Canary’s staked TRX ETF charges 1.10% plus 20% of rewards

Canary's staked TRX ETF (TRXS) began trading on 9 September with a 1.10% unified fee plus 20% of staking rewards, and no validator named in the filing.

Liquid sidechain stays frozen after 3,400 of 4,000 BTC returns

Blockstream's Liquid sidechain has not signed a block since 04:49 UTC on September 7. The white hats returned 3,400 BTC; 598.5 BTC and the peg stay open.

LSE hands tokenised equity distribution to Kraken until 2027

LSE will list xStocks on LSE 24 in 2027 while Kraken parent Payward distributes them now, and LSEG's own depository still sits at Gate 1 of the BoE sandbox.

South Korea dates only stage one of its securities tokenisation

South Korea's securities tokenisation roadmap dates only stage one, February 4, 2027. The all-securities and stablecoin settlement stages have no date.

CFTC turns CME’s own volume data against it in perpetuals suit

The CFTC's motion to dismiss CME's perpetual futures suit leans on the exchange's own volume reports and earnings script to argue it has no standing to sue.

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