Global financial leaders converge to explore the future of finance, with ISO 20022, digital assets, China's digital yuan and cross-border payment innovations taking center stage.

An ECB research paper on CBDC adoption strategies and cross border CBDC projects in Asia. Another digital note from HSBC as a new report on the state of tokenization reveals surging trading volumes and a spike in experimentation.

Australia and Canada abandon retail CBDCs, as a new Atlantic Council report shows 44 countries are now piloting one. Meanwhile, HSBC buys and sells tokenized gold with the help of quantum-secure technology.

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. This week HSBC pushed the adoption of tokenized RWA forward by opening its gold

Hong Kong officials have announced imminent plans for new regulation on tokenized real-world assets, just as HSBC and Ant Group start testing tokenized deposits in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority sandbox.

Signature Bank has become the latest casualty of the current US banking crisis, having been closed down by regulators on Sunday to prevent a risk of instability spreading to the wider financial system.