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India Tokenised Bond 2026: RBI, Digital Rupee & Blockchain

India's tokenised bond pilot is a planned September 2026 corporate debt issuance by REC, reported by Reuters, that would record a bond on distributed-ledger in…

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REPORTED

Reuters Reports First Tokenised Corporate Bond Pilot Takes Shape

Reuters, citing sources, reported that REC plans to issue India's first tokenised corporate bond in September 2026 - under Rs 500 crore, paid for in wholesale CBDC, held…

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REGULATOR STATEMENT

SEBI Signals It Is Examining Bond Tokenisation

SEBI Whole-Time Member Amarjeet Singh said SEBI plans a pilot, coordinated with the RBI, to test whether a shared ledger can enable simultaneous transfer of securities a…

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CONFIRMED

Digital Rupee Pilots Expand

The RBI continued expanding both wholesale and retail Digital Rupee pilots, adding participating banks and testing programmability, offline functionality and additional…

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CONFIRMED

RBI Launches Retail Digital Rupee Pilot (e-R)

The RBI launched the first retail CBDC pilot in a closed user group across four cities, with SBI, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank distributing digital-token rup…

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CONFIRMED

RBI Launches Wholesale Digital Rupee Pilot (e-W)

The RBI launched the wholesale CBDC pilot with nine banks for settlement of secondary-market government-securities transactions. Banks exchanged Rs 275 crore in bonds on…

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GLOBAL CONTEXT

Banks Begin Testing Distributed Ledgers

Global banks and financial institutions ran distributed-ledger experiments in payments, trade finance and securities settlement, moving the underlying concepts from theo…

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CONTEXT, NOT LINEAGE

Bitcoin Introduces Blockchain to the Financial Conversation

Bitcoin's 2009 launch demonstrated that a shared, distributed, cryptographically verified ledger could function without a central operator. India's tokenised bond pilot…

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