Itaú Partners With OpenAssets to Test Tokenized Bonds and Funds in Brazil

TLDR

• Itaú Unibanco, Latin America’s largest bank, has joined an ANBIMA-led tokenization pilot with digital asset firm OpenAssets
• The pilot will test tokenized fixed-income securities and investment funds using distributed ledger technology
• ANBIMA selected 20 use cases from 39 proposals submitted by over 50 financial institutions
• The value of tokenized real-world assets on public blockchains has grown from $18.9 billion to $38.3 billion in one year
• Brazil has become a growing hub for asset tokenization, with multiple large-scale projects already underway

Itaú Unibanco, Latin America’s largest private bank, has teamed up with digital asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets to take part in a tokenization pilot overseen by Brazil’s Financial and Capital Markets Association, ANBIMA.

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- The Crypto Times (@CryptoTimes_io) August 12, 2026

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