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Jul 30, 2026

JPMorgan, Citi, UBS Complete Cross-Border Payments Using Tokenized Central Bank Reserves in BIS Pilot

Major global banks including JPMorgan, Citibank, and UBS successfully settled real cross-border payments using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits in a pilot program coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements.

Jul 30, 2026·1 source
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Jul 22, 2026

Financial Exchanges and Asset Managers Expand Digital Asset Products and Trading Hours

Several financial-market firms announced separate expansions: 1exchange added UBS Asset Management's tokenized uMINT money market fund for secondary trading on July 22, 2026; CoinShares launched a UCITS platform, with its Bitcoin Mining UCITS ETF beginning trading on Deutsche Börse Xetra on July 21 after launching on July 16; and the London Stock Exchange announced plans to launch LSE 24, a separate night-time trading venue, in the first half of 2027.

Jul 22, 2026·4 sources
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Jun 14, 2026

KPMG Withdraws AI Report After Fabricating Case Studies

KPMG published and later withdrew a report on AI business adoption that contained fabricated case studies involving UBS, NHS, and other organizations, with errors uncovered by GPTZero CEO Edward Tian.

Jun 14, 2026·1 source
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Apr 8, 2026

Six Swiss Banks Launch Unified Swiss Franc Stablecoin Sandbox

UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, and four other Swiss financial institutions launched a 2026 sandbox to test Swiss franc stablecoin use cases and blockchain payment rails in controlled environment with real transactions.

Apr 8, 2026·3 sources
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Top claims

  • ▪The Project Agorá pilot used tokenized central bank reserves to settle corporate, interbank payments, and foreign exchange settlements.
  • ▪Transactions in the Project Agorá pilot settled in an average of approximately 80 seconds on a shared ledger.
  • ▪Project Agorá is one of several wholesale tokenization efforts by central banks and commercial lenders to modernize global financial market infrastructure.

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