{"id":654347,"date":"2026-09-07T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/citi-dbs-complete-first-weekend-tokenized-cross-border-deposit-on-swift\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:54:04","slug":"citi-dbs-complete-first-weekend-tokenized-cross-border-deposit-on-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/citi-dbs-complete-first-weekend-tokenized-cross-border-deposit-on-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi, DBS complete first weekend tokenized cross-border deposit on Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M1XP9EEWDQ84ZSGS1X5SFP19\/hi-sbuidl-blackrocks-tokenized-treasury-fund.jpg\" alt=\"Citi, DBS complete first weekend tokenized cross-border deposit on Swift\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized cross-border transfer over the weekend, using Swift\u2019s blockchain-based ledger to circumvent the constraints of traditional banking hours.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore-based financial services group DBS and American financial services giant Citi completed the first weekend tokenized cross-border payment between Singapore and the US on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies executed the transaction using tokenized deposits via the Swift Digital Ledger to bypass the constraints of traditional banking hours, DBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbs.com\/newsroom\/DBS_and_Citi_partner_to_enable_instant_247_cross_border_USD_payments_with_tokenised_deposits\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The deposit was finalized in minutes, which DBS called a \u201csignificant improvement\u201d from the industry norm of as long as two business days for traditional cross-border transfers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/dbs-citi-first-weekend-tokenized-deposit-swift\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized cross-border transfer over the weekend, using Swift\u2019s blockchain-based ledger to circumvent the constraints of traditional banking hours. Singapore-based financial services group DBS and American financial services giant Citi completed the first weekend tokenized cross-border payment between Singapore and the US on Saturday. The two companies executed the transaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-654347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}