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Digital Asset Exchanges
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What is the future of exchanges?
Why have digital asset exchanges found it difficult to disrupt traditional exchanges? Many domestic exchanges are monopolies, so they are...
Jun 510 min read


Are exchanges relevant if tokens are traded peer-to-peer?
Are digital asset exchanges offering peer-to-peer trading? The cryptocurrency markets have proved that peer-to-peer trading is...
Jun 48 min read


Are retail investors the key to digital assets trading taking off?
Are institutional investors looking for a higher level of regulatory certainty before they invest in digital assets? Institutional...
Jun 37 min read


Are tokenisers currently focused on alternative assets for want of something better?
Are tokenisers focusing on privately managed assets because they are the easy option? This was not the view of the audience. Only...
Jun 27 min read


Are tokenisers making a mistake in choosing to ignore the conventional public capital markets?
Are traditional exchanges doing nothing about tokenisation? Anecdotal evidence suggests all major exchanges have large teams exploring...
Jun 17 min read


Deutsche Börse is building a vertically integrated market infrastructure for institutional investors in digital assets
Explore Deutsche Börse's integrated market infrastructure for institutional investors in digital assets. Discover how this integrated market infrastructure is reshaping finance.
Sep 10, 20245 min read


Obligate has embarked on a quiet transformation of the capital markets
Discover how Obligate is transforming capital markets with blockchain technology. Learn about Obligate's innovative approach to capital markets today.
Sep 8, 20246 min read


After nearly a decade in business InvestaX still exudes energy and a passion for change
Discover how InvestaX, a blockchain-based platform, revolutionizes financial markets with energy and passion. Explore InvestaX's journey today!
Sep 7, 202410 min read


21X is keeping the faith in a tokenised future for finance
Explore how open ecosystems drive Token Market Growth with BX Digital's innovative strategies. Discover the future of Token Market Growth today!
Sep 6, 20249 min read


BX Digital believes that open ecosystems are the key to token market growth
Explore how open ecosystems drive Token Market Growth with BX Digital's innovative strategies. Discover the future of Token Market Growth today!
Sep 5, 20246 min read


Book Review: Web3 in Financial Services: How blockchain, digital assets and crypto are disrupting traditional finance
Discover the transformative power of Web3 in financial services! Explore how blockchain and crypto are reshaping finance in this insightful book review on Web3.
Sep 4, 20248 min read


When it comes to tokenisation, traditional stock exchanges might be mistaking the future for the past
Explore how traditional stock exchanges are missing the tokenisation trend. Discover why stock exchanges might be misjudging the future.
Sep 3, 202421 min read


What traditional stock exchanges need to do now
Discover how Stock Exchanges can adapt to the digital age. Learn about the evolving landscape and opportunities for Stock Exchanges now.
Sep 2, 202416 min read


Traditional exchanges are in danger of missing the point about tokenisation
Traditional exchanges risk missing the point about tokenisation. Discover how tokenisation impacts the future of exchanges and their relevance.
Sep 1, 20246 min read


What do stock exchanges need to survive the tokenisation of everything?
The major traditional exchanges have adapted well to the migration of transactional activity to other trading platforms, notably by...
Aug 7, 202449 min read


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, 202430 min read


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, 202440 min read


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, 202335 min read


The exchange with an insatiable appetite to disrupt
A Future of Finance interview with Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis Exchange Competition in equities trading in developed markets is now so...
Nov 21, 202337 min read


The Importance of 'Third-Party Custody' for Web3
Discover the crucial role of third-party custody in Web3. Learn how third-party custody ensures digital asset security and compliance in this evolving era.
Jul 21, 20235 min read


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, 20231 min read


Bosonic reinvents the operational infrastructure for digital asset traders
A Future of Finance interview with Rosario Ingargiola, Founder and CEO of Bosonic. The summer of 2022 marked the end of the age of...
Jan 12, 202352 min read


Digital issuance and investing will happen as soon as legal and regulatory confusion clears, say respondents to a Future of Finance poll
Custodian banks, transfer agents and central securities depositories (CSDs) are the intermediaries most at risk from a transition to...
Oct 28, 20221 min read


How banks can make money in the Metaverse
A summary of the webinar of Mar 24 2022 entitled How banks can make money in the Metaverse? Summary What is the Metaverse? Definitions of...
Jul 19, 202253 min read


The BSTX blockchain exchange is betting on a blend of the old and the new
Future of Finance interview with Lisa Fall, CEO at BSTX and Jay Fraser, Head of Strategy at BSTX. BSTX is the first exchange based on...
Jun 15, 20221 min read


MetaMUI uses digital identity to invent a fast, scalable blockchain
The “trilemma” has become a fixed objection to the adoption of blockchain technology. According to it, a blockchain-based system cannot...
May 19, 202213 min read


Blockchain could supplant platform capitalism if it adopted an open infrastructure model
The adoption and impact of Blockchain in financial markets could be accelerated by pursuing a collaborative strategy that uses blockchain...
May 2, 202210 min read


The financial market infrastructure of the future will look like this
A Future of Finance interview with Angie Walker, Global Head of Capital Markets Business Development at R3. One of the signal...
Mar 30, 20221 min read


How to get the InsurTech revolution happening again
InsurTechs are more numerous than effective. Technological gimmicks and virtue-signalling corporate philosophies capture headlines but...
Mar 22, 202217 min read


How traditional stock exchanges can reinvent themselves for the digital age
A Future of Finance interview with Angie Walker, Global Head of Capital Markets Business Development at R3. Traditional stock exchanges...
Feb 16, 20221 min read


The token exchange that wants to move fast and build things, not break them
A Future of Finance interview with Henry Chong, CEO at Fusang. Fusang is Asia’s first fully licensed and regulated digital financial...
Feb 15, 20221 min read


A blockchain protocol fit for the age of CBDCs, the Internet of Things and the Metaverse
A Future of Finance interview with Seokgu (phantom) Yun, Founder and CEO of the Sovereign Wallet Network and Project Lead of the Meta MUI...
Feb 1, 20221 min read


How banks can make money in the Metaverse
The Metaverse is notoriously hard to define. Those definitions which do exist describe a digital facsimile of the physical world, which...
Jan 31, 20229 min read


What a Blockchain Economy Will Look Like
A summary of the webinar of 30th September 2021 entitled What a Blockchain Economy Will Look Like Key Insights It is easy to portray...
Jan 21, 20227 min read


Open Banking is just the opening scene of a three-part drama of total economic transformation
A summary of the webinar of 9 December 2021 entitled Open Banking is just the opening scene of a three-part drama of total economic...
Jan 10, 20228 min read


Cost-cutting or client service is a bogus dilemma, Wealth Wizards tells wealth managers
A Future of Finance interview with Nick Hall, Head of Advice at Wealth Wizards. Wealth management faces much the same challenge as other...
Jan 6, 20223 min read


How a financial contract standard could help Blockchain achieve institutional scale
A Future of Finance interview with Ralf Kubli, an investor and independent director, and Willi Brammertz, managing director at Ariadne...
Jan 5, 20223 min read


The midshore financial centre that is becoming the digital assets capital of Asia
A Future of Finance interview with Farah Jaafar, Chief Executive of the IBFC. There are offshore financial centres and there are onshore...
Dec 29, 20214 min read


Regulatory reporting and financial crime compliance are data problems too
A Future of Finance Interview with Joe Higginson, Chief Commercial Officer at Identitii. In a modern economy, the most important costs...
Dec 22, 20214 min read


The greediest people in financial services are not who you thought they are
A Future of Finance interview with Stephen Taylor, General Manager, Anti-Money Laundering, at NICE Actimize. Financial crime compliance...
Dec 2, 20214 min read


A business-like approach to regulating digital assets is working for Gibraltar
A Future of Finance Interview with Albert Isola MP, Minister for Digital and Financial Services in Gibraltar. In January 2018, Gibraltar...
Dec 1, 20213 min read


The start-up bank that uses data to get close to its customers (but not too close)
A Future of Finance Interview with Mark Jenkinson, Founder and Director of Strategy at Chetwood Financial. There is no shortage of...
Nov 10, 20213 min read


INX security token issue and investments are driving tokenised securities markets towards lift-off
A Future of Finance interview with Douglas Borthwick, Chief Business Officer at INX. New York-based INX Limited shot to prominence last...
Nov 10, 20214 min read


New financial markets need merchant banks and Greengage intends to prove that crypto-currencies are no exception
A Future of Finance interview with Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage. Greengage, which has been active in the crypto-currency markets for...
Nov 10, 20214 min read


Wealth Wizards shows wealth managers how to digitise financial advice
A Future of Finance interview with Simon Binney, Business Development Director at Wealth Wizards. The wealth management industry is...
Oct 8, 20214 min read
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