This article is sponsored by Summer.fi. Learn more at https://summer.fi/ Institutional crypto has largely solved custody. Assets can be held securely, segregated, and audited at scale. What’s changing in 2026 is how owners of digital assets can utilise those same assets across the market to generate yield and, more importantly, who performs the asset management function on assets that have been deployed. A growing number of asset management firms are stepping on-chain not mer

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

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.

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

A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Technology and Product Officer at R3. R3 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Richard G. Brown, R3’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, speaks to Bob Currie about the drivers for Corda’s design, how these are changing, and how far the company has fulfilled the targets that it envisaged at formation. The discussion explores the potential for convergence of private and public blockchain ecosystems, thereby pot

​* R3’s Corda dominates the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market, with over $10 billion in on-chain assets – setting the standard for industry adoption * Trusted by the world’s leading banks, Corda represents the largest ecosystem of live RWA networks, processing over 1 million transactions each day * Client momentum across R3’s digital products suite, supported by regulatory and industry tailwinds, is driving the highest number of live applications in production globally

“Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN.” Jana Mackintosh Managing Director, Payment Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance ​We’re proud to announce that – together with R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology and services firm – we have been selected to produce the technology prototype for the experimentation phase of the UK’s Regulated Liability Network , led by UK Finance and supported by EY. ​The UK RL

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

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

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

“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

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

Quant launched a ground breaking solution today that makes blockchain-based transactions more secure for banks and other institutions. ​Financial institutions have implemented mature key management solutions to secure data, business applications, and transactions. With the introduction of blockchain and digital assets, existing key management technology cannot be used to provide the same level of protection and compliance mandated by regulation and security. To work around th

​The world of finance is going through a transformation with the introduction of tokenisation, which is expected to revolutionise the financial sector and encourage the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. However, one of the major challenges in realising the benefits of tokenisation is interoperability. ​Read the Quant point of view the paper focuses on the importance of asset portability, discusses the obstacles involved in achieving interoperability between differ

Major platform update architected to deliver high availability, scalability, and secure interoperability with other enterprise DLT platforms R3 launches Hyperledger Lab, Harmonia, to support industry-wide collaboration on interoperability LONDON/NEW YORK: R3 , the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, today announced the next generation of its flagship platform Corda at its hosted event in New York. The updated version has been designed for glob

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has gained significant traction in recent years in the financial sector, where its promise of data consistency, security, and shared business logic is the key to resolving long-standing market-level inefficiencies. However, as the adoption of blockchain networks continues to expand, a pressing challenge has emerged: the ability for these new solutions to seamlessly communicate and transact with one another, in a way that complies with the u

Quant announces its role as part of the vendor team for Project Rosalind. The project, led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England, explored how application programming interfaces could be used for central bank digital currency systems. Project Rosalind , directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, has been testing how APIs could facilitate retail payments in CBDCs and support the exploration of innovative CBDC use cases. The project looked spe

During a panel session at the Financial Times Digital Assets Summit last week, the Bank of England’s director for central bank digital currency, Tom Mutton, and Quant’s CEO Gilbert Verdian shared their views on a digital pound and tackled questions from the audience about personal data privacy and interoperability. Watch more here: https://quant.network/events/bank-of-england-and-quant-share-cbdc-vision/ Objectives and current status Tom Mutton, the Bank of England’s director