PANews November 18 news, according to Bloomberg, HSBC Holdings Plc will launch tokenization deposit services for corporate clients in the United States and the United Arab Emirates in the first half of next year. Manish Kohli, head of global payment solutions at HSBC, stated that the tokenization deposit service allows clients to conduct real-time domestic and cross-border fund transfers 24/7, without being limited to business hours, and this system helps large enterprises manage liquidity more efficiently.
HSBC's tokenization service has been launched in Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, and Luxembourg, and currently, the bank supports transactions in euros, pounds, dollars, Hong Kong dollars, and Singapore dollars. Kohli stated that when the service expands to the Middle East next year, the UAE dirham will be added. According to Kohli, HSBC plans to expand the application scenarios for tokenized deposits in programmable payments and autonomous vaults.