Korea’s Kyobo Life Taps Ripple for First Tokenized Bond Settlement

Kyobo Life, a $80B AUM Korean insurer, completes the country's first tokenized bond settlement via Ripple, cutting T+2 cycles to atomic finality.

South Korea’s insurance industry has taken its first step onto the blockchain. On April 15, 2026, Kyobo Life Insurance — one of Korea’s largest insurers with total assets of KRW 122.4 trillion ($89B) and assets under management of approximately KRW 110 trillion ($80B) — announced a strategic partnership with Ripple to pilot the country’s first tokenized bond settlement on blockchain infrastructure. Read more »

NYSE Tokenized Securities: T+0 Settlement Hits the $126T Market

Tokenized securities gain momentum as NYSE and Nasdaq race to bring T+0 settlement to the $126T global equity market via blockchain-based infrastructure.

$126 trillion. That is the combined equity market that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are now racing to put on-chain. On March 24, NYSE formalized the blueprint by signing a memorandum of understanding with Securitize, the BlackRock-backed tokenization infrastructure firm, to build a blockchain-native platform for tokenized securities. Read more »