Hana Bank issues $100M digital bond on Euroclear blockchain

The significance lies less in the size than in the plumbing: a Korean bank bypassing conventional issuance and settlement rails entirely, with registration and settlement on the same ledger. That compression of the settlement cycle is the part traditional bond markets have struggled to replicate at scale, and Euroclear's involvement gives the structure a recognized infrastructure anchor rather than a purely domestic experiment. The open question is whether this remains a single benchmark transaction or becomes a repeatable template other Korean issuers follow.