https://cryptobanking.news/banks/bank-of-east-asia/Verified items about The Bank of East Asiahttps://cryptobanking.news/item/hkma-ensemble-tx-24-7-tokenised-cebm-settlement/https://cryptobanking.news/item/hkma-ensemble-tx-24-7-tokenised-cebm-settlement/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced on 2 November 2026 that Ensemble TX, the pilot phase of Project Ensemble, now supports interbank settlement of tokenised deposit transactions in tokenised Central Bank Money (CeBM) on a 24/7 basis, and that its participating banks and industry pioneers have increased to 12 and 20 respectively. Launched in November 2025, Ensemble TX initially used the HKD Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system to settle interbank tokenised deposit transactions in a controlled real-value pilot, including corporate treasury management and tokenised money market fund transactions. The release's Annex A lists the tokenised deposit banks newly joined in 2026 as Bank of Communications (Hong Kong), China CITIC Bank International, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia), Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Hong Kong Branch and Nanyang Commercial Bank. Source: https://www.hkma.gov.hk/eng/news-and-media/press-releases/2026/11/20261102-5/tokenized-depositscbdc