I think the IBM Deal pushes shorttime, will be forgotten in some days and come back some day later..
when will this cooperation become a real world application?
You are dead wrong. It's already live:
The solution is already processing live transactions in 12 currency corridors across the Pacific Islands and Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Using a blockchain distributed ledger, all appropriate parties have access and insight into the clearing and settlement of financial transactions. It is designed to augment financial flows worldwide, for all payment types and values, and allows financial institutions to choose the settlement network of their choice for the exchange of central bank-issued digital assets.
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They are currently testing it in selected countries and if you research IBM history of bringing new stuff to the markets you'll see that they usually don't fade out.