Standard Chartered Bank’s Dubai branch launches RLUSD custody services, planning to support their use as LMAX trading collateral
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Standard Chartered Bank’s Dubai branch launches RLUSD institutional custody and plans to make custodial assets LMAX collateral for certain products.
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Standard Chartered Bank’s Dubai branch launches RLUSD custody services, planning to support their use as LMAX trading collateral
PANews October 13 reported, citing The Block, that Standard Chartered has launched, through its branch in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DFSA) regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DIFC), institutional custody services based on Ripple’s USD stablecoin RLUSD based on the XRP Ledger institutional custody services. Standard Chartered is also working with Ripple and LMAX Group, planning to use a “collateral mirroring” model under which clients’RLUSD held in custody at Standard Chartered can serve as LMAX eligible collateral for certain products, without transferring the assets to a trading platform. The arrangement still requires completion of final documentation, testing, regulatory requirements, and internal approval; no launch date has been announced. Previously, Standard Chartered announced plans to provide crypto-asset, stablecoin, and tokenized RWA custody services through its Singapore branch.
Standard Chartered has launched, through its branch in the Dubai International Financial Centre regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority,RLUSD institutional custody services.
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The RLUSD in these custody services is based on XRP Ledger。
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Standard Chartered is working with Ripple and LMAX Group, planning to adopt a “collateral mirroring” model.
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Under the plan, clients’RLUSD held in custody at Standard Chartered can serve as LMAX eligible collateral for certain products, without transferring the assets to a trading platform.
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The collateral arrangement still requires completion of final documentation, testing, regulatory requirements, and internal approval; no launch date has been announced.
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Standard Chartered previously announced plans to provide crypto-asset, stablecoin, and tokenized RWA custody services through its Singapore branch.
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Custody services can be understood as a bank holding RLUSD on behalf of institutional clients. If the proposed “collateral mirroring” arrangement is completed, clients could continue to keep their RLUSD at Standard Chartered while also using them as collateral for LMAX certain products, without transferring the assets to a trading platform. What has been clearly launched at present is the custody service; the use of assets as collateral remains in preparation.
Why it matters to readers
This arrangement is intended to connect bank custody with the use of assets as trading collateral and reduce the need for clients to transfer assets in order to provide collateral; however, its actual scope and effectiveness can only be confirmed after the arrangement is approved and launched.
Beginners should distinguish between things:RLUSD the custody service has been reported as launched; using LMAX as collateral is only a plan and has not yet completed approval or received a launch date. The original report does not explain how this would affect the prices of the relevant assets.
Risks and unknowns
The news was relayed by PANews from a report by The Block and did not provide direct statements from Standard Chartered, Ripple, or LMAX Group.
The collateral arrangement remains subject to final documentation, testing, regulatory requirements, and internal approval.
The launch date for the collateral arrangement has not been announced.
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LMAX The specific scope of applicable products and the actual adoption by institutional clients have not been specified.
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