Project Acacia has today reached a significant milestone with a number of industry participants (see below) selected to explore how innovations in digital money and existing settlement infrastructure might support the development of Australian wholesale tokenised asset markets. Project Acacia is a joint initiative between the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance […]
MEDIA RELEASE Imperium Markets has proven that the tokenisation of assets and settlement in wholesale bank deposits, money market securities and annuities is possible following the successful completion of its Project Acacia use cases. As part of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance CRC’s (DFCRC) Project Acacia, Imperium Markets facilitated real-money transactions […]
MEDIA RELEASE FIRST EVER TOKENISED CORPORATE BOND ISSUED IN AUSTRALIA Imperium Markets has issued the first ever tokenised corporate bond in Australia as part of Project Acacia’s wholesale tokenised asset and settlement research project. In a use case led by Macropod, the bond was issued on Imperium’s ASIC-licenced marketplace and settled on Redbelly Network using Macropod AUDM. […]
James Eyers Senior Reporter Feb 8, 2026 Australian banks and super funds are taking their first tentative steps in the use of stablecoins, deploying the digital currency in trial capital market transactions to speed up settlement times and reduce costs. Offshore, stablecoins are increasingly being used for payments – forcing banks to take notice amid […]
Fintech Imperium Markets has put together a top-notch independent advisory board to help it engage with the banks and regulators as more financial market participants explore trading and settling transactions with blockchain technology.
Imperium Markets Pty Limited has established an Independent Advisory Board that consists of Imperium Chairman Rod Lewis, former Westpac Group Treasurer Curt Zuber, and former MBIA UK Chairman and CEO Chris Weeks.
The Independent Advisory Board will ensure that Imperium’s platform delivers issuance, trading, custody and settlement capabilities in the most efficient manner to the market. It will also have input into how Imperium engages with the banks and regulators.
Imperium Markets says it has received indicative approval from ASX Benchmarks as an Approved Trading Venue (ATV) for the purposes of Australian benchmark BBSW (Bank Bill Swap Rate).
One of the pilots for a new digital Australian dollar will seek to compress the time it takes to settle trades in the $1.5 trillion bond market from two days to zero, removing settlement risks and cutting costs for banks and investors.
Imperium Markets is running one of the 14 pilots of a “central bank digital currency” (CBDC) announced last week by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Imperium, which received a tier 2 financial markets licence from ASIC in 2017 allowing it to create a market for debt securities, counts all the major banks as customers. They use the platform to manage debt issuance to institutional investors.
Major banks will begin digitising contracts that govern their debt financing, and explore trading and settling money market transactions using blockchain technology, in a project that Imperium Markets and the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre (DFCRC) will launch in the coming months.
Imperium Markets will launch a major research project into digitalising the $3 trillion wholesale bond and deposit market and running it on blockchain.
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