š¹ **Demat 2.0 signals a new direction for India's market infrastructure** At Global FinTech Fest 2026, the RBI Governor and SEBI Chairman jointly unveiled the Demat 2.0 pilot for tokenising corporate bonds on the Unified Markets Interface, with settlement through the RBI's wholesale digital rupee (eā¹). The model aims to enable near-instant, atomic settlement of the bond and money legs within regulated market infrastructure. Source: NPCI