The UK government has selected HSBC’s Orion digital asset platform to support a pilot issuance of tokenized government bonds, marking a formal step in the country’s exploration of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for sovereign debt. The appointment, confirmed by His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), follows a competitive procurement process and positions the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot within the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox framework.

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