Growing clarity over the regulatory treatment of cryptocurrencies and digital assets has created an opportunity for regulated financial institutions to provide their clients with access to crypto trading, investment and custody services. The question is: should they build an infrastructure in-house, buy a platform from a vendor or outsource the service to an established provider? What is the event about? Institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is increasing. Why? In Europ

Apex Group helping Coinbase Asset Management add a tokenised share class to a Bitcoin yield fund sounds like a small step, but it could be a giant leap for tokenised funds. What is the event about? On 19 March 2026 Coinbase Asset Management added a tokenised share class to the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund (CBYF) it launched in April 2025. The tokens, issued on to the Base blockchain built by parent company Coinbase, are aimed at institutional investors. Digital fund administra

On 12 March 2026, Future of Finance hosted its second Digital Asset Exchanges event, bringing together industry leaders to examine whether digital asset markets are transforming capital markets or simply re-engineering traditional exchange models through new technology, with a particular focus on liquidity, regulation, post-trade infrastructure, and the real-world scalability of tokenisation across asset classes. Relive the Event Read all takeaways, plus exclusive access to s

On 4 March 2026, Future of Finance and Edwin Coe LLP hosted an exclusive, invitation-only, half-day workshop in London on the upcoming UK cryptoasset regulatory regime, bringing together cryptocurrency and digital asset firms and financial services businesses to examine the new authorisation framework being introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2026. Discussions focused on the FCA’s threshold conditions, the authorisation application window between September

Deepening inter-operability between Euronext and Clearstream can be read as a solution to the fragmentation of European post-trade infrastructure Börse Stuttgart has positioned its Seturion tokenised settlement platform as an alternative to the reconfiguration of the existing post-trade infrastructure Clearstream has hedged its exposure to a tokenised future by simultaneously placing a series of bets on the growth of digital asset markets When Börse Stuttgart launched Seturio

The Fed, the FDIC and the OCC have confirmed that the capital treatment of tokenised securities and derivatives is the same as non-tokenised equivalents Tokenised securities posted as collateral will also be recognised as a credit risk mitigant on the same terms as the non-tokenised equivalents The capital treatment of a tokenised security is the same, irrespective of whether it is issued on a permissioned or permissionless blockchain. The three Federal banking industry regul

Asset manager Fidelity has issued a US dollar-denominated Stablecoin called Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) onto the Ethereum blockchain The issuance follows the granting to Fidelity of a conditional trust bank licence by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) FIDD circumvents GENIUS Act restrictions on paying interest to Stablecoin holders by integrating FIDD with a tokenised money market fund Fidelity Investments has launched a US dollar-denominated Stablecoin,

Cross-border payments platform Payoneer has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter A federal banking licence will enable Payoneer customers to pay and get paid in Stablecoins and hold Stablecoin balances in digital wallets Payoneer plans to issue its own US dollar-denominated Stablecoin that its clients can use to settle cross-border payments and hold in digital wallets Payoneer , the cross-border payments technology p

Anchorage Digital has launched a US dollar Stablecoin payments service aimed at foreign banks currently using correspondent banks The new service enables banks to buy and sell and hold in custody a variety of US dollar-denominated Stablecoins authorised under the GENIUS Act The regulated status of Anchorage Digital Bank is expected to appeal to foreign banks willing to use blockchain infrastructure that eliminates regulatory risk Anchorage Digital , the regulated provider of

Société Générale subsidiary SG-FORGE is making its EUR CoinVertible euro-denominated Stablecoin available on the Ripe-owned blockchain XPRL Société Générale hopes XPRL will increase use of the EUR CoinVertible, already available on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, in trading activity Euro Stablecoins remain modest by comparison with US dollar equivalents but S&P predicts a €1.1 trillion markets by 2030 as Stablecoins are used in payments French universal bank Société Géné

Stablecoin infrastructure provider Bridge has secured a conditional federal banking licence from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) The licence, once fully approved, will enable Bridge to custody digital assets, issue Stablecoins and hold Stablecoin reserves Bridge is the sixth Stablecoin or digital assets company to secure an OCC banking licence in the last five months Bridge , the Stablecoin infrastructure provider owned by Stripe since February last year,

Cross-border payments company Payoneer is adding Stablecoins to the payment options it offers customers The Stablecoin capabilities will be deliver via technology supplied by Bridge, the Stablecoin infrastructure provider owned by Stripe Users of the Payoneer service will be able to hold Stablecoins, pay and get paid in Stablecoins, and transfer the value of Stablecoins to bank accounts Payoneer , the Israeli cross-border payments company that listed on NASDAQ in 2021 via a S

A Future of Finance interview with Bruce Jackson, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Capital Officer at MembersCap. Every token issuer knows that scale depends on liquidity, but liquidity depends on scale. To break this cycle, Bermuda-based MembersCap, the specialist reinsurance investment manager, is making available composable versions of its tokenised funds. The firm is confident composability will extend the range of allocators open to investing in MembersCap funds beyond

After a four-month competitive tender the UK government has chosen HSBC’s Orion platform to host issuance of an experimental tokenised government bond The so-called Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) has proceeded slowly since it was first announced in November 2024, and progress looks set to remain slow Though a digital gilt is a potentially transformative initiative, concern remains that the UK is falling behind rival jurisdictions in its embrace of tokenisation The United Kin

Ripple Custody is giving its customers, and by extension customers of its customers, access to “staking” services provided by Figment Ripple says integrating access to Figment “staking” infrastructure relieves its customers of operational, compliance and reporting demands Figment offers regulated institutional holders of tokens the opportunity to earn an income from validating transactions on Proof-of-Stake blockchains Digital asset custodian Ripple Custody has appointed Fig

A Future of Finance Interview with Jeff Hartjes, Executive Business Manager at 21X    The balance between tokenised money market funds and tokenised money will shift. Public blockchains will continue to grow at the expense of private ones, but which protocols prove popular remains unpredictable. The infrastructure for the tokenised markets of the future is being built. Tokenised funds will be overtaken by tokenised securities. The transition from the intermediated markets of

A Future of Finance interview with Emmanuel Daniel, founder of the TAB Global.   Emmanuel Daniel, founder of the TAB Global research house, thinks about the effects of digital technology on finance and how the changes it makes possible will impact business and society. In The Great Transition – the personalisation of finance is here, published in September 2022, he predicted that blockchain technology would shift Internet finance from centralised, market-based platforms to a

A group of digital asset exchanges and one CSD have warned European institutions their blockchain reforms are too slow to compete with the US With reforms not scheduled for implementation until 2030, the group suggests a mini package of liberalising measures within the DLT Pilot Regime sandbox now The proposed “quick fix” reforms will allow DLT Pilot Regime licence holders to tokenise any asset and grow faster for longer before being fully regulated A group of digital asset e

European digital assets exchange 21X is offering buy- and sell-side customers of LeveL Markets access to tokenised financial instruments Customers of the LeveL Markets equity trading dark pools for buy- and sell-side institutions will access tokenised instruments through existing interfaces Institutional order flows are expected between traditional and tokenised instruments and vice-versa 21X , the Frankfurt-based token exchange licensed under the DLT Plot Regime administered

Asset manager WisdomTree has added Solana to the six blockchains where its tokenised funds are accessible already The WisdomTree decision imparts further momentum to Solana, which has emerged as the main challenger to Ethereum Ondo Global Markets, an issuer of non-native tokens, has already expanded the range of blockchain networks it supports to include Solana Asset manager WisdomTree is making its tokenised funds available on the Solana blockchain network. It indicates gr