In 2024, the ECB invited market participants to test how new technologies like distributed-ledger technologies (DLT) would work for central bank money settlement. The so-called ECB trials and experiments are aimed at exploring the potential of digital payments targeting a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Together with leading institutions, infrastructures and fintech businesses, Deutsche Börse Group contributes to this transformative endeavour with its Clearstream and Eurex Clearing businesses.