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How to make the digital asset markets grow – How can blockchain-based token networks achieve full inter-operability?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Apr 8, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can be done now to overcome the absence of digital money on blockchain networks?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant. Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Apr 3, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can governments do to encourage the growth of digital asset markets?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and higher returns on investment, remain disappointingly small. However, the obstacles to the scaling of the digital asset markets are increasingly well-understood, and gradually being cleared. Legacy laws and regulations are proving more workable than expected, and being adapted where they are not. Experiments by regulators, central banks and
Mar 28, 2024


Tokenbridge believes the funds industry will tokenise from the periphery not the centre
A Future of Finance interview with Stephen Ashurst, CEO of Tokenbridge Tokenbridge is a software company which has embraced a tokenised...
Mar 15, 2024


A European blockchain-based funds marketplace that is delivering on its promises
A Future of Finance Interview with Christophe Lepitre, CEO at IZNES and Valérie Gilles, CCO at IZNES IZNES is a marketplace that enables...
Mar 15, 2024


The future of European market infrastructure is in the hands of the market infrastructures themselves
CSD Webinar 22 February 2024 Poll Article by Dominic Hobson, Co-Founder and Editorial Director at Future of Finance A careful reading of...
Mar 14, 2024


European capital markets are inefficient, so why aren’t European CSDs doing more about it?
Article by Dominic Hobson, Co-Founder and Editorial Director at Future of Finance Europe suffers from a surfeit of capital market infrastructures and especially an excess of CSDs. The fragmentation makes the European capital markets smaller and less liquid than they need to be, with negative consequences for the price of capital and economic innovation and growth. Despite a quarter century of regulatory efforts to force consolidation, the forces in favour of the status quo ha
Jan 5, 2024


Germany: The unexpected leader of the digital asset revolution
Digital Asset Custody Guide This content is an excerpt from the book. Click the button below to download the full book for free. Germany is unexpectedly ahead of Singapore, Luxembourg and Switzerland in creating a hospitable environment for securities and funds to be tokenised The keys to the German success were separate domestic legislative measures that encouraged issuance and custody of tokenised securities However, much of the activity in Germany to date is better underst
Dec 14, 2023


Can the carbon credit markets institutionalise and tokenise at the same time?
The voluntary carbon credit markets are seen as a market-based solution to climate change whose value lies in attracting investment into...
Nov 8, 2023


Interoperating token networks: What they are and how to get there
Future of Finance: There is no shortage of individual blockchain and tokenisation projects in repo, swaps, payments and securities. Why have they yet to achieve scale? Lima: The reason experiments are failing to scale is because we are pursuing siloed initiatives that work in isolation but are not integrated with each other. Within the R3 eco-system alone we have for example HQLAx digitising collateral, Finteum doing intraday FX swaps and SSImple digitising Standing Settlemen
Nov 4, 2023


How R3 gets blockchain projects done
A Future of Finance interview with Co-founders of R3, Chief Technology Officer Richard Brown and Chief Strategy Officer Todd Mcdonald. R3 first came to public attention in 2015 when a group of major financial institutions and technology vendors backed the company to work out how blockchain technologies could be applied to regulated financial markets. More than six years on, R3 is the established enterprise software company behind a host of live and soon-to-be-live blockchai
Oct 16, 2023


Nasdaq explains how CSDs and CCPs can evolve their technology and embrace tokenisation
A Future of Finance interview with Gerard Smith, vice president and head of product-digital assets, at Nasdaq (Marketplace Technology). ...
Oct 5, 2023


UNTITLED GEN aims to become the Aladdin of the digital art market
A Future of Finance interview with Clemens Wessendorff and Simon Zimmerman, the co-founders of UNTITLED GEN. In the minds of many, the...
Aug 8, 2023


The mint that manufactures notes and coins in digital form
A Future of Finance interview with Jonathan Dharmapalan, CEO of eCurrency. 130 central banks around the world are now exploring the...
Jul 13, 2023


InvestaX founder agrees that tokenisation is synonymous with institutional DeFi
A Future of Finance interview with Alice Chen, Co-founder, COO and General Counsel at InvestaX. InvestaX is a tokenisation platform for...
Jun 23, 2023


FundGuard offers asset managers a new way to fix their rising cost problems
Future of Finance interview with John Lehner, President at FundGuard. The asset management industry has grown fat on a quarter-century...
Jun 8, 2023


Montis is scripting more than one possible future for CSDs
A Future of Finance interview with Martin Watkins, CEO at Montis Group. The existence of Montis, which is building an infrastructure to...
May 30, 2023


SDX is betting on openness to accelerate the adoption of tokenised assets
A Future of Finance interview with Alex Kech, Head of Digital Securities at SDX SDX, the exchange for digital assets built and operated...
May 24, 2023


D7 is an invisible bridge between digital assets and traditional securities markets
A Future of Finance interview with Michael Crezelius, Head of the Issuer CSD at Clearstream, and Thilo Derenbach, Head of...
Mar 16, 2023


What the future might hold for cryptocurrency prime brokerage
The steady growth of professional trading activity in the cryptocurrency markets over the last decade is undeniable but opaque, hard to...
Jan 18, 2023
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