PANews reported on January 7th that, according to CoinDesk, Lloyds Banking Group, a British lending institution, announced the completion of the UK's first transaction using tokenized deposits to purchase UK government bonds. Lloyds Banking Group, the UK's third-largest bank by market capitalization, stated that it completed the purchase using the crypto trading platform Archax and the privacy-focused Canton network. This purchase demonstrates that tokenization technology can transform traditional banking, converting real-world assets into digital form, enabling instant buying, selling, or transferring.

In this transaction, Lloyds Bank plc, a subsidiary of Lloyds Bank, issued tokenized deposits on the Canton network. Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets then used these deposits to purchase tokenized Treasury bonds from Archax. Finally, Archax transferred the underlying funds back to its regular Lloyds Bank account.