# India to launch first tokenised bond issue in September 2026-08-24T11:41:19+00:00 | Business & Economy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet (2 source reports) India will launch tokenised corporate bonds next month, with state-owned power financier REC issuing bonds worth less than Rs 5 billion, three sources told Reuters. The bonds will be settled using India's central bank digital currency, the digital rupee, and will be recorded on a blockchain or distributed ledger. The pilot, run with the RBI and SEBI, will test whether the technology can enable instant settlement of bond transactions. Investors will need two digital accounts: a wholesale digital currency wallet from a bank and a new electronic securities wallet called DEMAT 2.0, being developed by depositories. The offering is expected to be unveiled at a financial technology event in Mumbai next month and will initially be available to a select group of investors. Exchanges are expected to develop a secondary market by December. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Reuters reports the pilot through unnamed sources, giving a detailed technical account of the blockchain-based DEMAT 2.0 wallet and the lock-in period. Gadgets360 sticks to a brief straight-news summary naming the RBI and SEBI. Neither source carries any political slant: the story is a market infrastructure test, not a policy debate. The key date is the September fintech event, where the first tokenised bond will be unveiled to a limited investor group. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - finance.yahoo.com (neutral report) Straight news agency style reporting via unnamed sources - gadgets360.com (neutral report) Brief straight-news summary with no discernible slant This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-25T11:38:56+00:00. Tags: blockchain, CBDC, Mumbai, RBI, REC, SEBI Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/india-to-launch-first-tokenised-bond-issue-in-september/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/india-to-launch-first-tokenised-bond-issue-in-september/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/