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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


If Europe needs a single European CSD, who will build it?
A single European capital market – a Capital Markets Union (CMU) – could provide European business with a lower cost of capital through...
Mar 14, 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


If Europe needs a single European CSD, who will build it?
What is the event about? On 17 November 2023 Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), told a conference of bankers that “a truly European capital market needs consolidated market infrastructures.” [1] European capital markets certainly lack them now. They are a quarter the size of the American capital market yet support three times as many stock exchanges, and 20 times as many post-trade financial market infrastructures. The lack of a European equ
Feb 22, 2024


Quant’s work on the digital pound
“We proved that APIs could play a key role in enabling CBDC systems to deliver a range of benefits in terms of payments functionality and security.” Andrew Carrier Chief Marketing Officer Directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre (BIS), Project Rosalind was an experiment that explored the development of a retail central bank digital currency. It tested how application programming interfaces (APIs) could facilitate retail payments in CBDCs and support in the exploratio
Feb 21, 2024


The clue is not in the name: AsiaNext is thinking globally not regionally
A Future of Finance interview with Neil Thomas, Chief Commercial Officer of AsiaNext. AsiaNext, a 24/7, Singapore-based...
Feb 7, 2024


Whither digital asset custody?
What is the event about? The custodians, whose profession was once a byword for the least glamorous activity in the securities industry,...
Jan 24, 2024


21X: The European token exchange with a reassuringly German personality
A Future of Finance interview with Max Heinzle, CEO of 21X 21X is a Frankfurt-headquartered token issuance, trading and settlement...
Jan 24, 2024


Digital Asset Custody: Regulation Matters – Results and Charts
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Jan 22, 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


The Swiss token exchange creating a market for small company shares
A Future of Finance interview with Nicola Plain, CEO of Aktionariat. Success in tokenising equity is unusual. Most issues of tokens are...
Dec 21, 2023


What We Know and Do Not Know About CBDCs (So Far)
A Future of Finance interview with Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3. A year and a half may have elapsed since the last central bank...
Dec 18, 2023


Impact of the "safeguarding" rule on digital asset custody
Explore the impact of the "safeguarding" rule on digital asset custody. Learn how digital asset custody is evolving under new regulations.
Dec 15, 2023


Is SEC staff accounting bulletin 121 (SAB 121) dead or alive?
Explore the uncertain future of SAB 121 and its impact on digital asset custody. Is SAB 121 dead or alive? Discover the latest insights now.
Dec 15, 2023


What the Future of Finance Database says about the current state of the digital asset custody market
Discover insights on the Custody Market and its growth in digital asset custody services. Explore the Custody Market trends and challenges today!
Dec 15, 2023


Why the United States is behind the world in clarifying the regulatory status of digital assets and digital asset custodians
Explore why the United States lags in digital assets regulation and how this impacts digital asset custodians. Discover the global regulatory landscape.
Dec 15, 2023
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