🇬🇧📲 The United Kingdom takes public bonds to blockchain with HSBC.
The British Treasury has chosen the Orion platform (HSBC) to pilot the DIGIT, its new digital bond instrument, within a regulatory sandbox supervised by the FCA.
📌 What is DIGIT?
• Digital government bond
• Issued in a regulated testing environment
• Based on blockchain technology
Objective: modernize the public debt market.
⚡ Why is this relevant?
According to HSBC, issuing via blockchain can:
✔️ Accelerate settlement
✔️ Reduce operational frictions
✔️ Increase transparency
✔️ Improve capital market efficiency
Near-instant settlement can replace processes that currently take days.
🏦 History of Orion
The platform has already been used for:
• +US$3.5 billion in digital bonds
• First digital bond in pounds (EIB, 2023)
• Green bond of ~US$1.3B from Hong Kong
In other words, it is not an initial experiment — it is expansion.
🧠 Strategic Reading
Governments are tokenizing public debt.
This validates blockchain infrastructure at the sovereign level.
If Treasury bonds start to migrate to blockchain…
Are we witnessing the beginning of the complete tokenization of the global fixed income market?
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