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Whither digital asset custody?
[JAN 2024] Webinar: Wednesday January 24th at 2pm UK time What is the event about? The custodians, whose profession was once a byword for the least glamorous activity in the securities industry, will never enjoy the wealth and prestige of investment bankers, asset managers and private equity deal-makers. But independent custodians have earned from investors some…
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Digital Asset Custody: Regulation Matters – Results and Charts
To read the Results and Charts, fill in your details below. *please fill in your name we will not be sharing our data but to ensure we keep you informed and invited to relevant papers and events incorrect data will not ensure you will be contacted correctly. For further information please contact Wendy Gallagher on…
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Digital Asset Custody: Regulation Matters
To read the full paper, fill in your details below. *please fill in your name we will not be sharing our data but to ensure we keep you informed and invited to relevant papers and events incorrect data will not ensure you will be contacted correctly. Welcome to the second edition of the Digital Asset…
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Can the carbon credit markets institutionalise and tokenise at the same time?
Key Insights From This Webinar The voluntary carbon credit markets are seen as a market-based solution to climate change whose value lies in attracting investment into carbon-reducing technologies and projects. Early efforts to develop the market have led to allegations of greenwashing, inadequate monitoring of projects, re-sales of retired credits – unlike other financial assets,…
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Digital Asset Custody: The Future looks like the past
[SEP 2023] Institutional investors have toyed with the cryptocurrency markets for years. Where they are actually committed is to the wider digital asset markets, including both asset-backed and digitally native security tokens and digital forms of currency such as tokenised deposits, Stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
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Digital Asset Custody: The Future looks like the past
To read the full paper, fill in your details below. *please fill in your name we will not be sharing our data but to ensure we keep you informed and invited to relevant papers and events incorrect data will not ensure you will be contacted correctly. The Institutional Digital Asset Custody Guide (DACG) is produced…
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SDX is betting on openness to accelerate the adoption of tokenised assets
[JUL 2023] SDX, the exchange for digital assets built and operated by Swiss stock exchange SIX, is working to accelerate the tokenisation of financial assets in Switzerland, Singapore and Germany, three locations whose legal and regulatory environments are accommodating of the new method of raising capital. Interestingly, the SDX strategy is an open one that…
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The mint that manufactures notes and coins in digital form
130 central banks around the world are now exploring the merits of issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) but as recently as 2015 not a single one was doing that, even though the idea of digital money dates back to the 1990s. The founders of eCurrency, on the other hand, a Dublin-headquartered company with…
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InvestaX founder agrees that tokenisation is synonymous with institutional DeFi
InvestaX is a tokenisation platform for real and privately managed asset funds based – where else? – in Singapore, the financial centre that is doing more than any other jurisdiction to turn the idea of tokenisation into a reality. Like others in Singapore, including the regulators, the founders of InvestaX believe that DeFi innovations such…
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FundGuard offers asset managers a new way to fix their rising cost problems
The asset management industry has grown fat on a quarter-century of exceptionally loose central bank monetary policies. Ever-rising asset values have allowed managers to largely ignore shrinking fees, rising costs, failed outsourcing and offshoring arrangements and a long-term secular trend from high margin active investment strategies to low-margin passive alternatives. But now a combination of…
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Montis is scripting more than one possible future for CSDs
The existence of Montis, which is building an infrastructure to support the issuance, settlement, safekeeping and servicing of digital assets, is a measure of the transformative potential of tokenisation. Yet Montis is also a measure of the curious lack of interest of most established central securities depositories (CSD) in tokenisation, as threat let alone as…
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SDX is betting on openness to accelerate the adoption of tokenised assets
[MAY 2023] Key insights from this interview • Tokenisation will take five to 15 years to achieve substantial scale, advancing through the growth of a parallel native digital asset industry alongside the traditional securities industry, with financial market infrastructures providing inter-operability between blockchain protocols and between blockchain protocols and traditional securities markets. • Tokenised asset…
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The changeable burden that regulation is about to lay on digital asset custodians
Key Insights From This Webinar The work of bank and non-bank custodians in safekeeping digital assets on behalf of customers is gradually coming under increased regulatory supervision. This is probably helpful to the development of digital asset markets beyond cryptocurrencies, since safe custody has long been recognised as the key to unlocking institutional investment in…
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A Future of Finance Webinar on December 8th at 2pm to 3pm UK time. Safe custody is the service that will unlock corporate issuance and institutional investing in the securities, asset-backed, non-fungible and fund token markets. While there is widespread recognition that regulation of digital asset custodians would accelerate progress, regulators around the world have…
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Safe custody is the service that will unlock corporate issuance and institutional investing in the securities, asset-backed, non-fungible and fund token markets. While there is widespread recognition that regulation of digital asset custodians would accelerate progress, regulators around the world have so far reached consensus on combating financial crime only. Even that is proceeding slowly…
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Embrace this digital future or die (20 September 2022)
If you work at an asset manager, a global custodian bank, a fund administrator or at a financial market infrastructure. Future of Finance is pleased to announce an invitation-only event to learn about a new operating model for the asset management industry and its service providers in global custody, fund administration and financial market infrastructures.…
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Is the digital asset custody industry ready to grow up?
[JUL 2022] A summary of the webinar of June 9 2022 entitled Is the digital asset custody industry ready to grow up? SUMMARY What can be done about crime in the cryptocurrency and DeFi industries? According to Chainalysis, thieves stole $3.2 billion of cryptocurrency in 2021 and had stolen another $1.3 billion in the first…
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The BSTX blockchain exchange is betting on a blend of the old and the new
The BSTX blockchain exchange is betting on a blend of the old and the new BSTX is the first exchange based on blockchain to be fully regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and licensed to operate on a national scale. It took the founders of the Boston-based exchange years to get there but…
Keep readingIs the digital asset custody industry ready to grow up? (9 June 2022)
[JUN 2022] A Future of Finance webinar with custody banks, digital asset companies, regulators and technology companies on June 9 at 2pm UK time Safe custody is the crucial service for crypto-currency investors. The theft, loss or destruction of the unique private keys to the digital wallets in which cryptocurrencies are held is irreversible and…
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The growth of the Komainu custody service tracks rising institutional interest in digital assets
The growth of the Komainu custody service tracks rising institutional interest in digital assets Growing institutional interest in the largest and most liquid crypto-currencies is now spilling over into staking via Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols and into Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). While widening institutional interest in digital assets is partly explicable as a search for…
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Summary and Highlights: The Securities Services Industry in the ‘New’ World
There are many reasons why established financial institutions are starting to trade and invest in crypto-currencies but their interest is certainly driving the development of services which match what they expect to find in the traditional foreign exchange (FX) and securities markets. Substitutes for the traditional means by which counterparty credit and settlement risk are…
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What it will take to tokenise the securities markets (20 October 2021)
A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH CUSTODY BANKS, SETTLEMENT ORGANISATIONS, SECURITIES INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS AND DIGITAL ASSET PROFESSIONALS Wednesday October 20 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Projections put the size of the security token markets at US$8-9.5 trillion within just four years. That is bigger than the US$7 trillion invested in the privately managed asset…
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Hex Trust see sample opportunities for growth at home and abroad
Hex Trust see sample opportunities for growth at home and abroad Growing institutional interest in crypto-currencies, not least as a hedge against rising inflation, has spawned a range of custodial services to safeguard the private keys without which nobody can access the digital wallet that contains the assets. Hex Trust, the Hong Kong based provider…
Keep readingSecurities Services Industry in the ‘New’ World (13 September 2021)
Securities Services Industry in the ‘New’ World Future of Finance and Coalition Greenwich, a division of CRISIL, will review the recent financial performance of the global custodian bank, and project near-term developments in the global custody industry. Monday 13 September, at 2pm UK time Read the Summary Topics will include: Changing client needs The evolving…
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Standard Custody & Trust launches crypto-currency and security token custody service for institutional investors
Custody, long the poor relation of the traditional securities industry, has emerged as the foundation of the digitalization of the capital markets.
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Who Needs to Get Ready for the Coming of the Token Economy
Many factors inhibit institutional issuers and investors from adopting security tokens as readily as some institutions have taken to crypto-currencies. But an asset class in need of tokenization – privately managed assets – has been identified and an institutional grade infrastructure is being built to welcome institutional investors.
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The Fireblocks platform is one big reason why institutional interest in crypto-currency is catching fire
One reason institutional money is now being invested in crypto-currencies is that it is safe to do so. Fireblocks, the provider of an institutional-grade safe custody and settlement platform for digital assets, can take a good measure of the credit for what is happening.
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Blockchain Clearing and Settlement for the Real World
L4S is a start-up led by people who know that a successful blockchain revolution in securities clearing and settlement cannot ignore either the technical limitations of the technology or the prevailing dispensation of service providers, market infrastructures, transaction processing technologies and accounting methodologies.
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Custodians have the power to make security tokenisation happen (8th June 2021)
A Future of Finance webinar with custodians, blockchain technologists, settlement institutions, regulators and traders of digital assets Tuesday June 8 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Questions posed from the October 2020 discussion and will provide the framework for the next discussion in June 2021: Panellists: Stephen Richardson VP Head of Product Strategy and Business Solutions at Fireblocks https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen–richardson/…
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Settlement and Custody of digital assets Part II (20th October 2020)
20th October 2020 2.00-3.00 pm BST time Incumbents in the securities services industry concluded last year that blockchain would not disrupt post-trade services after all. Yet the potential advantages of tokenising equity and debt securities, especially in terms of operational, intermediation and liquidity cost savings, remain compelling. And paths through the obstacles to progress are becoming clearer.…
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Settlement and Custody of Digital Assets – An account of the discussion at the Walbrook Club on 4 March 2020
Settlement and Custody of Digital Assets – An account of the discusion at the Walbrrok Club on 4 March 2020 An Account of the Discussion at the Walbrook Club on 4 March 2020 Settlement and Custody of Digital Assets:An Account of the Discussion at the Walbrook Club on 4 March 2020 Summary Other inhibitors to…
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