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13 APAC-Born Companies Recognized Among Top Global Cross-Border Payment Leaders of 2025

Fintech News

DBS Bank is also a participating bank in PayNow, Singapores consumer real-time payments service. The company was an early adopter of distributed ledger technology (DLT), teaming up in 2017 with Ripple Labs and pioneering blockchain-based remittances from Japan to Thailand and Vietnam.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

These projects leveraged distributed ledger technology (DLT) to settle trades more quickly and securely, using delivery-versus-payment (DvP) mechanisms that reduce counterparty risk. Yet, merchants, especially small businesses, face real hurdles. On the consumer side, privacy concerns loom large.

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Banco Santander, Lloyds Banking Group, and UBS Successfully Settle Pilot Uncleared Margin Transfers in the Sterling Fnality Payment System

Fintech Finance

This real-world proof-of-concept proves that Fnality can be used to make bilateral margin payments using the £FnPS, and marks the first instance of a fully regulated Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-based payment system being used to settle margin for the purposes of real-world inter-bank derivative exposures.

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SC Ventures and G+D Complete Pilot on Different Types of CBDC Systems

Fintech News

The project tested the feasibility of conducting multilateral cross-currency transfers through the UDPN, involving both Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and non-DLT-based CBDC technologies. The indirect model featured an on-chain DLT-based solution developed by UDPN engineers.

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Bitcoin Daily: Italy's Banks Test Digital Euro On DLT

PYMNTS

The digital currency in trial is supported by distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the two-part experiments also aim to examine the use cases of a DLT-enabled currency. Any bank can participate in the digital currency initiative, Ledger Insights reported.

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Is ‘Embedded Regulation’ The Key To Stablecoins’ Success?

PYMNTS

“Today, authorities around the world are grappling with the rise of digital currencies and decentralized finance based on both emerging technologies — particularly various combinations of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain and advances in traditional centralized systems underpinning finance,” according to the report.

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The Enterprise Headache Of A Decentralized Blockchain

PYMNTS

For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have said, promotes visibility and makes it more difficult for data to be manipulated. ” However, that’s only the beginning.