Banking on Blockchain 🤑

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The times they are a-changin’, and it seems the suits at NRW BANK have finally caught on 🤠. In a move that’s got everyone from Frankfurt to Berlin abuzz, the German bank has launched a €100M blockchain bond on Polygon – because who needs paper when you’ve got code, right? 🤖

This two-year bond was registered via Cashlink Technologies, a BaFin-licensed crypto securities registrar – because in Germany, even the crypto cowboys need a sheriff to keep ’em in line 🤠. And issued entirely under Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (eWpG), which is just a fancy way of sayin’ they’re tradin’ in their leather-bound ledgers for a blockchain-powered future 📈.

Deutsche Bank, DZ BANK, and DekaBank – the holy trinity of German finance – acted as joint lead managers in the transaction. Because when you’re dealin’ with €100M, you want to make sure you’ve got the grown-ups in the room 📊.

According to Cashlink CEO Michael Duttlinger, this deal is more than just a bunch of ones and zeros – it’s a sign that the times are indeed a-changin’, and public institutions are finally gettin’ on the blockchain bandwagon 🚂. “It shows that public institutions are beginning to scale blockchain integration beyond experimentation,” he says. In other words, the Germans are gettin’ serious about crypto 💸.

And it’s all thanks to the eWpG law, enacted in 2021, which opened the door for regulated blockchain securities in one of Europe‘s most developed financial markets. NRW BANK’s issuance is now a key milestone in that evolving landscape – a landscape that’s lookin’ more and more like the Wild West of finance 🤠.

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2025-07-11 12:38