🇮🇳 India is preparing to put corporate bonds onchain
India plans to launch its first tokenised corporate bond issuance in September, according to Reuters.
The pilot will involve state-owned power financier REC and bonds worth less than 5 billion rupees, approximately $57 million.
Blockchain will be used to record:
• issuance
• ownership
• trading
• settlement
Investors will purchase the bonds using India’s wholesale central bank digital currency. They will need both a CBDC wallet and a new digital securities wallet called DEMAT 2.0.
The pilot will initially be available only to selected investors. A secondary market is expected to follow in December.
The important point is that these bonds are not being turned into speculative crypto assets.
They remain regulated debt instruments. Blockchain changes the infrastructure behind them by allowing ownership and settlement to be recorded on the same digital system.
This is where tokenisation becomes practical.
The asset remains familiar.
The process behind it becomes faster and more programmable.
🔗 Source: Reuters
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