04:55 AM EDT, 08/19/2026 (MT Newswires) -- HSBC (HSBA.L) and Standard Chartered (STAN.L) said Wednesday they completed the first bank-to-bank tokenized deposit interoperability transaction through a live cross-border payment. The British lenders executed the transaction through the exchange of payment messages over Swift's blockchain-based ledger, creating tokenized obligations for both HSBC and Standard Chartered. This transaction forms part of an industry-led initiative exploring the use of distributed ledger technology to support real-world payment use cases at scale.

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