CryptoPublished Sep 24, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

UK’s largest banks complete world’s first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits

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Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC and others used tokenized deposits for remortgages and a marketplace-payment test, taking bank-issued digital cash beyond a single institution.

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