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Bank of Canada runs tokenised bond issuance pilot
A Bank of Canada-led Project Samara pilot has issued its first tokenised bond, Cointelegraph reported on Thursday. The test involved Export Development Canada, Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank Group to assess whether distributed ledger technology can improve the efficiency of bond issuance, trading and settlement. Export Development Canada issued a C$100 million short-term bond traded by a closed group of investors on a Hyperledger Fabric-based platform.