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Lloyds, Santander, UBS use Fnality tokenized central bank money for margin settlement

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Yesterday Fnality, the wholesale DLT payment infrastructure, announced the execution of pilot transactions for margin payments on its platform for the first time. Fnality is backed by more than 20 global institutions, and three of them took part in the live trial, Lloyds, Santander and UBS.

Fnality UK holds an omnibus bank account at the Bank of England, with tokenized central bank money used to execute institutional payments. While Fnality technically launched at the end of last year, it has to get regulator approval for new applications and scaling.

The payments firm gained its first central bank approval in the UK but has ambitions to support payments in US dollars, Euros, and several other currencies.

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