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European Investment Bank Issues DLT-Native Commercial Paper on Clearstream
EIB issued its first distributed ledger technology (DLT)-native commercial paper directly on Clearstream's D7 platform, eliminating paper settlement intermediaries and settling directly on-chain.
WHY IT MATTERS
First major public issuer to skip paper entirely and issue debt natively on DLT. Signals migration path for short-term funding markets away from legacy settlement infrastructure.
Source: Finextra · 2026-06-30