Today the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Capital Market report. It finds that global fixed income issuance totalled €3,049 million in 2024, or 260% up from 2023.
The Swiss National Bank and European Central Bank trials contributed to the growth, but volumes doubled even without these.
As digital bonds proliferate, one of the questions becomes what qualifies as a DLT bond? Some of the DLTs used are very centralized, while others are less so.
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