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

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

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

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

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

The ECB will accept as collateral for credit tokenised versions of securities and other assets it accepts already The tokenised assets eligible as collateral will initially be non-native only but native assets will become ECB-eligible in future The extension of ECB eligibility to tokenised securities is an opportunity for national and international CSDs with tokenisation platforms The European Central Bank ( ECB ) says it will accept tokenised versions of eligible assets as c

Following successful tests as part of the ECB trials, Clearstream has launched a tokenisation platform for clients to issue and settle tokenised securities The earliest users of the tokenisation platform are expected to be issuers of commercial paper and Medium-Term Notes (MTNs) in the Euromarkets D7 DLT, which marks an expansion of the four-and-a-half-year-old D7 issuance platform, is a Cloud-based service supported by Google Cloud Clearstream has added a tokenised securiti

There are two main obstacles to the scaling of the markets in digital assets and one of them is the lack of interoperability between blockchain networks and between blockchain networks and traditional financial markets. The default answer, hallowed by history in multiple industries, is standards. By enabling different networks to exchange data, they multiply the overall volume of counterparties and transactions.

In 2026 Kalyp Technologies celebrates the tenth anniversary of its foundation as a provider of blockchain infrastructure to the regulated capital markets. It is an ambition that has required patience as well as more obvious resources, since securing the regulatory endorsement on which institutional engagement depends is a lengthy process. But now the company has built an open financial market infrastructure of its own, the Digital Securities Depositary Corporation (DSDC), and

Euronext Clearing has invited Clearstream to act as a tri-party collateral management agent for users of its repo clearing services As tri-party agent, Clearstream will custody, select, value, settle and substitute the collateral counterparties post to Euronext Clearing Euronext Clearing has embarked on a two-year plan to expand the scope and scale of its repo clearing services Clearstream will become a tri-party agent for users of Euronext Clearing, the central counterpart

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What are the incentives for private debt and equity issuers to tokenise their offerings? Securities token offerings (STOs) are suited to companies that are too big for crowd-funding platforms and too small for the conventional capital markets. So it is not surprising that the audience thought private debt and equity issuers are not just the obvious beneficiaries of tokenisation (Chart 1) but the issuers with the greatest appetite to tokenise securities (Chart 2) and the issue

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Why the benefits of tokenisation depend on the issuance of “native” rather than “asset-backed” (or "digital twin”) digital assets