Lloyds and Visa Settle $750,000 in USDC in Cross-Border Pilot

Corporate treasury teams and cross-border payment users see that settlement can happen outside banking hours rather than waiting for a standard weekday window. The pilot also shows funds reaching Visa in under an hour, including over the weekend, which is the timing detail that would matter most to people watching operational settlement flows day to day.

In practice, the payment experience stayed the same while the settlement layer changed to USDC for institutional settlement. The setup also tied Canton infrastructure to a separate public blockchain environment, so the change sits in the back end rather than in the user-facing payment flow.

What remains open is how broadly this setup would be used beyond this seven-day pilot and whether the same structure would be repeated in other transactions. The clearest next confirmation would be more completed settlement trials with the same parties or a broader rollout description that spells out the operating scope. (per cryptobriefing.com)

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