In February the Regulated Layer One (RL1) institutional DLT network added the Landesbeteiligungen Baden-Württemberg (L-Bank) as a member and today announced Chartered Investment is joining, bringing the total founding members to a dozen. Government owned L-Bank holds just over 15% of another RL1 member LBBW and Chartered Investment is a regulated infrastructure provider that has been involved in over a thousand securitizations worth more than $15 billion.
RL1 is a non profit cooperative that is expected to launch mid year and positions itself as an institutional shared ledger for digital assets. Technology-wise, it is based on the SWIAT permissioned distributed ledger founded by DekaBank, with LBBW and Standard Chartered as early adopters. Apart from these three, the other RL1 founders announced in October 2025 are ABN AMRO, DZ Bank, KfW, Natixis CIB, NatWest, Seturion (Boerse Stuttgart Group) and V-Bank.
“Our clients create and manage investment products across traditional and digital markets,” said Markus Fehn, Head of Strategy & Innovation at Chartered Investment. “A shared settlement layer means these products can reach a broader European ecosystem on standardized rails. And as the network matures, we see significant potential in new on-chain use cases.”
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