Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has completed the issuance of $200 million in three-year floating-rate digitally native notes, becoming the Global Systemically Important Bank and a UK-based issuer that has now placed such instruments on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure.
The notes, created natively on distributed ledger technology, form part of the bank’s established funding program and have been submitted for admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s International Securities Market.Euroclear’s D-FMI supports the creation, distribution and primary settlement of fully digital international securities inside a regulated environment.
It preserves links to conventional issuance, settlement and servicing channels, allowing the new notes to interact with existing investor workflows and market infrastructure rather than operating in isolation.
Standard Chartered served as sole dealer on the transaction.
The deal illustrates how distributed ledger technology can be incorporated into proven market systems to improve efficiency and interoperability without disrupting established processes.
It also extends the bank’s earlier work helping clients issue digital bonds into its own treasury activities, moving the institution from advisor to issuer on the same platform.
Vikash Mistry, Deputy Group Treasurer at Standard Chartered, noted that the issuance shows how digital methods can sit inside a conventional funding program while retaining connections to trusted international infrastructure and investor practices.
Having previously assisted clients with similar transactions, the bank is now applying that experience to its own funding to encourage more scalable and repeatable digitally native debt issuance.
Ankur Prakash, Head of Digital and Strategic Initiatives in Global Banking, emphasised that the significance goes beyond one deal.
As the first G-SIB-issued digitally native notes on the Euroclear platform, it advances institutional acceptance of digital capital markets infrastructure.
Interest continues to grow among issuers, investors and other participants in using distributed ledger technology to digitise financial assets and raise efficiency across the value chain.
Standard Chartered remains active both as an arranger of digital bond deals and as a participant in broader digital-asset ecosystems, supporting the expansion of tokenized real-world assets and the connection between traditional markets and emerging digital systems.
Sebastien Danloy, Chief Business Officer at Euroclear, observed that the future of digital capital markets depends on combining innovation with the trust, scale and connectivity of existing markets.
The transaction shows how digitally native issuance can integrate smoothly into Euroclear’s infrastructure, giving issuers and investors efficiency and transparency gains while preserving access to established liquidity channels, trading venues and regulatory frameworks.
Standard Chartered previously acted as Joint Digital Structurer and Joint Lead Manager on Emirates NBD’s AED 1 billion digitally native bond on the same platform and as Sole Lead Manager on Doha Bank’s USD 150 million digital bond that achieved instant settlement.
Those roles have helped issuers reach innovative digital infrastructure and contributed to the wider development of digital capital markets.
The notes have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to US persons except in limited circumstances under Regulation S.
This issuance adds to the growing list of digitally native instruments hosted by Euroclear’s D-FMI and reinforces Standard Chartered’s position in advancing practical applications of digital technology within core banking and capital markets operations.