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How to make the digital asset markets grow – Are the commercial opportunities in digital assets compelling enough to overcome the fear of disruption?

[MAR 2024] Are the commercial opportunities in digital assets compelling enough to overcome the fear of disruption? Key Insights from this interview 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,…

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How to make the digital asset markets grow – How can blockchain-based token networks achieve full inter-operability?

[MAR 2024] How can blockchain-based token networks achieve full inter-operability? Key Insights from this interview 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…

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How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can be done now to overcome the absence of digital money on blockchain networks?

[MAR 2024] What can be done now to overcome the absence of digital money on blockchain networks? Key Insights from this interview 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,…

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How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can governments do to encourage the growth of digital asset markets?

[MAR 2024] What can governments do to encourage the growth of digital asset markets? Key Insights from this interview 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…

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How long must we wait for the flagship security token issuers?

Where are the flagship issuers of security tokens? This is the crucial question now facing the security token markets. The benefits to issuers of tokenisation – much reduced issuance and servicing fees, a lower minimum fund-raising threshold, faster speed to market, and access to new investors – are now well-understood by issuers. The infrastructure to…

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Security token markets need issuers and traders even more than investors

A summary of the webinar of 20 January 2022 entitled Security token markets need issuers and traders even more than investors. Security token markets exist but are not yet thriving. Their advantages for both issuers (lower costs of capital and capital servicing plus greater flexibility in the instruments that can be issued) and investors (access…

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What it will take to tokenise the securities markets

A summary of the webinar of 20th October 2021 entitled What it will take to tokenise the securities markets. For both issuers and investors, the benefits of tokenising securities seem unarguable. Yet tokenisation has so far refused resolutely to take off. Security token issues are dominated by security token infrastructure providers and one-offs, many of…

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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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We have seen the future of securities and it is tokenised: The Summary

Security tokens are coming. In fact, they are here already, and have been for a while. Though most of the security token offerings (STOs) in the last three years were hard to distinguish from Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), several corporates and banks (Banco Santander, Bank of China, BBV, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale) have tokenised…

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We have seen the future of securities and it is tokenised

Security tokens are coming. In fact, they are here already, and have been for a while. Though most of the security token offerings (STOs) in the last three years were hard to distinguish from Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), several corporates and banks (Banco Santander, Bank of China, BBV, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale) have tokenised…

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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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