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Football Fans Make Daring Rescue After Noticing Cat Dangling From Ledge
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— Sep 20, 2021
The recent University of Miami-Appalachian State University game had some heart-stopping moments that didn’t involve anything happening on the field. Some fans who attended the game on Saturday were treated to front-row…
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REC’s ₹500 crore tokenized bond draws nearly eight times oversubscription from top banks
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— Sep 7, 2026
REC Ltd issued India’s first pilot tokenized corporate bond under SEBI’s sandbox, raising ₹500 crore with an 8x oversubscription and settling the issue on the same day with listings on NSE and BSE, using RBI’s wholesale CBDC for settlement. The deal, aided by HDFC and ICICI among about 20 institutional buyers, leverages Demat 2.0 and a permissioned distributed ledger to boost settlement speed and transparency, signaling potential deepening of India’s debt markets.
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Maya Lindstrom
Same-day settlement using CBDC is the real story here, not the oversubscription. That's a big infra shift.
India plans tokenised corporate bond pilot
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— Aug 24, 2026
India is set to launch its first tokenised corporate bonds next month, with state-owned REC issuing notes and settlement expected to use the central bank digital currency, as regulators push blockchain-based systems to enable near-instant settlement and greater transparency. The pilot, limited to a select group of investors and supported by the RBI and SEBI, includes new infrastructure like DEMAT 2.0 and wallets to record and settle tokenised bonds on distributed ledgers.
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