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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

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 the central promise of blockchain: elimination of high levels of financial inter

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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

As on-chain yield demand accelerates, Summer.fi Institutional is equipping custodians and asset managers with compliant vault infrastructure, unlocking crypto-native yield through automation, transparency, and policy control.

As the digital asset ecosystem matures, institutions face rising threats from cyberattacks, insider risks, and governance gaps. Ledger Enterprise outlines how modern custody solutions — built on hardware-backed protection and embedded governance — can deliver the resilience and transparency institutional investors demand.

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. Unfortunately, attempts to achieve interoperability standards in

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

Explore the rise of Digital Assets in asset management. Learn how Digital Assets can revolutionize costs and trust in the industry today.

The digital payments arm of Ant Group, operator of the Alipay mobile payments platform, has integrated Kinexys Digital Payments into its treasury platform Ant Financial and Kinexys parent J.P. Morgan say the integration offers Ant Financial the ability to make payments in three major currencies 24/7 The cross-currency payment capability operates outside normal banking hours but remains within the J.P. Morgan private permissioned blockchain network Ant International, the Sing

Circle has agreed to link its payments infrastructure with the cross-border payments platform provided to banks by technology vendor Finastra The link will enable banks to settle payments in the USDC Stablecoin without requiring customers to instruct in USDC The arrangement gives banks the option to settle payments without going via their traditional correspondent banks Payments technology vendor Finastra and Circle , issuer of the USDC Stablecoin, say they are working toget

Explore the future of the Equity Market as it transitions to all-hours trading. Discover how the Equity Market never sleeps and impacts global traders.

Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contributing Editor at Future of Finance, Hargreaves describes how this model can improve automation, security and flexibility for users, while reducing fragmentation in the payments ecosystem.

​Quant, a global leader in fintech and innovation, today announces the rollout of Quant Flow, an industry-first programmable money and banking infrastructure now available via a white-label solution to banks, institutions and corporates across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. Quant Flow was developed in response to the growing demand for smarter forms of commercial bank money and the need to modernise financial infrastructure, driven by rising regulatory pressure and compet

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

A Future of Finance interview with Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge. Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge,...

Why have digital asset exchanges found it difficult to disrupt traditional exchanges? Many domestic exchanges are monopolies, so they are intrinsically hard to disrupt. A blockchain-based order book does not offer a sufficient improvement over a traditional order book. Exchanges are also often owned by their users, which want lower prices at least as much as fatter dividends. In such cases, digital asset exchanges are better advised to focus on post-trade services, with a vie

Discover how blockchain is transforming Securities Financing and Collateral Management. Uncover its impact on Securities Financing today!

Are digital asset exchanges offering peer-to-peer trading? The cryptocurrency markets have proved that peer-to-peer trading is technologically possible. This is not surprising. The original vision of blockchain technology was to replace trust in centralised intermediaries with trust in decentralised technology. The collapse of the centralised FTX exchange reinforced, rather than undermined, the validity of that claim. Which places centralised digital asset exchanges hosting t