The UK Treasury has selected HSBC Orion as the platform for its Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot, positioning the country to be the first G7 nation to issue tokenized sovereign bonds on a blockchain.
According to a press release on Thursday, the pilot aims to explore the application of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to UK sovereign debt issuance, with the goal of establishing DLT infrastructure and promoting its adoption across local financial markets.
“Issuing digital gilts and digital corporate bonds on a blockchain has the potential to improve the debt capital markets structure in the UK, by significantly accelerating transaction settlement times,” HSBC noted in a separate release.
The DIGIT pilot will feature a digitally native, short-dated instrument issued on a platform within the Digital Securities Sandbox, with onchain settlement independent of the government’s main debt management program. The Treasury is currently engaging additional suppliers to deliver these features alongside HSBC.
“We want to attract investment and make the UK the best place to do business, which is why we are launching DIGIT to understand how the UK can capitalise on this technology,” Lucy Rigby, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said. “This is exactly the kind of financial innovation we need to keep the UK at the forefront of global capital markets.”
Meanwhile, HSBC highlighted that its Orion digital asset platform has already facilitated over $3.5 billion in tokenized bond projects in different jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Luxembourg.
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