Natixis Pfandbriefbank successfully issued a digitally registered secured bond of 100 million euros on the SWIAT permissioned blockchain, the first of its kind in Germany. DekaBank acted as the buyer for the offering, acting as both registrant and payment agent. SWIAT, co-founded by DekaBank and LBBW and backed by Standard Chartered's SC Ventures, has participated in several wholesale DLT settlement tests by the ECB, but the bond issue was not included in those tests. Earlier this month, SWIAT a...