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

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

The government of Bermuda is working with Circle and Coinbase to put the island economy on blockchain Circle will provide the USDC Stablecoin and Coinbase the blockchain infrastructure Payments by USDC are merely the starting point for tokenisation of all financial transactions and assets in Bermuda The Government of Bermuda has announced it plans to move the island’s economy on to the blockchain, initially by embracing the USDC Stablecoin issued by Circle as the principal

Lingfeng Capital is listing its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) in token form on the LSEG DMI digital assets platform Archax is providing issuance, connectivity and custody services to make the tokenised fund interoperable with the traditional fund The DVF fund is invested in a variety of fintech businesses funded by Lingfeng Capital The Digital Venture Fund (DVF), a fintech investment fund managed by Beijing-headquartered and Hong Kong-managed Lingfeng Capital , will launch in to

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has built an infrastructure with Canton Network called DisH to put commercial bank money on-chain The DiSH infrastructure, unlike the tokenised deposit platforms developed by banks, is an open network not a closed universe DisH aims to facilitate settlement of traditional financial market transactions as well as digital asset transactions on blockchains On 15 January 2026 the London Stock Exchange Group ( LSEG ) announced it had launched

Security tokens and fund tokens will be traded 24/7 Security tokens and fund tokens will settle using Stablecoins Tokenised cash and collateral are key to the NYSE strategy The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) says it is going to develop a regulated platform for on-chain trading and settlement of security tokens. It is planning to build a separate infrastructure that will operate 24/7 and settle trades in security tokens instantly using Stablecoins. The new platform will host

Lloyds Bank issued tokenised sterling deposits onto the Canton Network public blockchain and used them to buy a gilt-edged security from Archax Lloyds ran its own node on the Canton Network rather than rely on the network provider, so retained control of customer service standards Tokenised deposits, unlike Stablecoins, enable users to stay within regulatory perimeters and deposit insurance schemes Lloyds Banking Group , Archax and Canton Network say they have proved that a

J.P. Morgan is pioneering the use of tokenised deposits to make payments between banks J.P. Morgan blockchain unit is issuing its tokenised deposit on Canton Network, the second public blockchain it is using after Base The native issue of the JPMD tokenised deposit on to Canton Network will take place in phases through 2026 Tokenised deposits, hitherto trapped within banks, are starting to become available for inter-bank payments through native issuance on public networks. Ki

BitGo, Fidelity and Stablecoin issuers Circle, Paxos and Ripple have secured national trust bank licences from the OCC The licences will enable the five firms to offer digital asset issuance, trading, staking, settlement and custody services throughout the United States The licence approvals mark a second change in policy direction at the OCC in the last five years The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ( OCC ) in the United States has approved national trust bank lice

2025 marked a transformational leap for Future of Finance. With four flagship pillar events, curated 1-day events, webinars, and interviews our programme reached more people than ever. We expanded internationally for the first time with our regional debut in Frankfurt, celebrated excellence through the inaugural FOF Awards Ceremony, and launched a major new industry resource, the Digital Asset Custody Directory, a leading reference for institutional users. Below is a closer l

Sony Bank, the online banking arm of Sony Corporation, is considering the issuance of a Sony-branded US dollar Stablecoin Sony Bank is working with Bastion, an NYDFS-licensed blockchain infrastructure provider, in the United States Stablecoins enable corporates to capture customer spending, offer micro-rewards, cut payment transaction costs and earn net interest margin Sony Bank Inc. , the online banking arm of the Sony Group Corporation, the Japanese electronics, video games

A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Executive of R3 Labs The pivot by R3 from private to public blockchains through its partnership with Solana might be one of those apparently arcane technical deals - like IBM and Microsoft or Apple and ARM - that changes everything. It allies regulated, institutional money with an open blockchain protocol that can compete with existing equity and debt marketplaces on volume, speed and price, while still delivering on

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

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