Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters said on Monday that Hong Kong's push into tokenized money and stablecoins could lay the foundation for a new era of digital trade settlement. Speaking at Hong Kong FinTech Week, Winters pointed to ongoing pilots in tokenized deposits and the creation of a Hong Kong-dollar-backed stablecoin as potential breakthroughs for cross-border commerce. “I wouldn’t say that we’ve fully captured the digitized nature of those flows as yet, but we will,” Winters said. “Having innovat ...