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Bank of England reveals 17 firms have joined Digital Securities Sandbox

Coen ter Wal, Managing Director and Head of Technology and Operations at AFME and Sasha Mills is Executive Director of Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England
Coen ter Wal, Managing Director and Head of Technology and Operations, AFME, and Sasha Mills, Executive Director of Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England. Photo: Jean Hurley/GRIP

Jean Hurley

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Executive Director Sasha Mills sets out UK roadmap for tokenized wholesale markets and central bank digital money at AFME OPTIC 2026.

The Bank of England has confirmed that 17 firms are now operating within its Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), with two advancing to the “go-live” stage for live market issuance, as the central bank pushes towards a fully tokenized wholesale market.

​Speaking at the AFME OPTIC 2026 conference, Sasha Mills, the

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