ECB Plans Direct Investment In Tokenized Securities Using Pontes

TL;DRThe ECB has started preparatory work to invest a small portion of its own-funds portfolio in tokenized euro-denominated securities.
Initial eligible assets are expected to include euro-area public-sector and supranational issuers.
The future purchases are intended to settle in central-bank money through Pontes; purchases have not yet been executed.The European Central Bank is moving from building tokenized-settlement infrastructure to preparing to use it for part of its own investment portf