Sutra Updates

A 2026 report by the Digital India Foundation and Premji Invest explores how asset tokenisation can improve efficiency, liquidity, and market access in India while remaining aligned with existing financial regulation and institutional safeguards.

Global financial institutions including JPMorgan and BlackRock are accelerating the adoption of tokenised finance, using blockchain infrastructure to enable faster settlement, programmable assets, and round-the-clock financial markets.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has unveiled its roadmap for open finance, outlining plans to extend data-sharing frameworks from banking into broader financial services such as pensions, investments, insurance, and lending.

Countries across the Global South are collaborating to build interoperable digital infrastructure, sharing governance models and technical standards for payments, identity systems, and financial registries.

As India approaches the Union Budget, the central constraint in digital finance reform is not funding but institutional readiness. This article examines why absorption capacity, regulatory coherence, and trusted infrastructure must precede large-scale investment in digital financial systems.

The SUTRA Charter formally sets out the consortium’s vision, guiding principles, and governance framework for advancing trusted and interoperable digital registry systems. It defines the shared foundation on which partners will collaborate to strengthen digital public infrastructure and promote secure, verifiable exchange across sectors.

SUTRA, in partnership with Moneycontrol, will host an invite-only convening in Mumbai on 30 October 2025 focused on the future of digital trust and interoperable financial systems. The event will bring together policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and technologists to reflect on how trust registries, tokenisation, and emerging digital frameworks are shaping India’s financial transformation.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that nations must be prepared to engage with stablecoins as they begin to influence the...