HSBC Orion Chosen on 12 February 2026 to Power UK Digital Gilt Pilot in Sandbox
On 12 February 2026, HM Treasury appointed HSBC's Orion digital asset platform to support the UK's Digital Gilt Instrument pilot within the Digital Securities Sandbox. The program will issue a short-dated, digitally native UK government bond to test blockchain-based issuance, settlement, and secondary trading without altering the existing gilt auction framework. The initiative aims to gather data on efficiency, costs, and risk management as part of wider sovereign debt tokenization trends.