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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).

What are you doing about regulated Stablecoins?

[JUN 2023] Regulated banks are waking up to the threats and opportunities created by the decision to bring Stablecoins within the regulatory perimeter. In both domestic and international payments and securities markets, regulated Stablecoins offer liberation from the status quo as well as the threat of disintermediation. Where doing nothing is not a survivable option,Continue reading “What are you doing about regulated Stablecoins?”

Is this how CBDCs will happen in the major global currencies?

[MAR 2023] A Future of Finance webinar March 23 at 2pm UK time When it came to digital money useable on blockchain networks, the choice between central bank money and commercial bank money used to feel binary: Stablecoins and tokenised deposits and e-money were stopgaps pending the introduction of CBDCs. But as the threat ofContinue reading “Is this how CBDCs will happen in the major global currencies?”

Is it safe for CSDs to go back to sleep on tokenisation?

A Future of Finance webinar on March 2nd at 2pm UK time with Asian CSDs What is the event about? Future of Finance is hosting an invitation-only event to explore whether central securities depositories (CSDs) in the Asia Pacific region need to invest now or invest later or not invest at all in the tokenisationContinue reading “Is it safe for CSDs to go back to sleep on tokenisation?”

The status quo in cross-border payments looks to be on the verge of collapse

A Future of Finance Webinar 15 February at 2pm UK time There is widespread agreement that cross-border payments are too expensive, too slow, too closed, too opaque and too risky. For once, a combination of pressures – political, regulatory, risk-based, technological, entrepreneurial and geopolitical – make it more rather than less likely that the incumbentsContinue reading “The status quo in cross-border payments looks to be on the verge of collapse”

Stablecoins will be regulated: What are the implications for the markets?

[JAN 2023] A Future of Finance Webinar on January 26th 2023 at 2pm UK time Over the last three years an international consensus has emerged on how to regulate a novel financial instrument first invented to put cash on to blockchain-based networks: the Stablecoin. Bringing certain types of Stablecoin within the scope of regulation doesContinue reading “Stablecoins will be regulated: What are the implications for the markets?”

What cryptocurrency “prime brokerage” might and might not mean for digital asset markets

A Future of Finance Webinar on 9 February 2023 at 2pm UK time Prime brokerage is a well-established and well-understood discipline in both the foreign exchange (FX) and the securities markets, in which buy- and sell-side traders use the reputation and balance sheet of an investment bank to trade with multiple counterparties, often on aContinue reading “What cryptocurrency “prime brokerage” might and might not mean for digital asset markets”

Is tokenisation of privately managed assets a dynamo, a diversion or a dead-end?

A Future of Finance Webinar on January 19th 2023 at 2pm UK time Privately managed assets have become the default choice for tokenisation enthusiasts. The reasoning behind their choice is hard to fault. The advertised benefits of tokenisation apply a fortiori to the asset class. Privately managed assets – especially hedge funds and real estate,Continue reading “Is tokenisation of privately managed assets a dynamo, a diversion or a dead-end?”

The changeable burden that regulation is about to lay on digital asset custodians (8th December 2022)

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 haveContinue reading “The changeable burden that regulation is about to lay on digital asset custodians (8th December 2022)”

Fund tokenisation is coming soon to a jurisdiction near you (30th November 2022)

A Future of Finance webinar on November 30th from 2pm to 3pm UK time. With Asset Managers, Custody Banks, Fund Administrator, Securities Infrastructure Companies and Technology Companies. Tokenised funds exist already in the United States and Singapore. Asset managers are not only issuing tokenised funds but backing projects whose ambition is to facilitate the large-scaleContinue reading “Fund tokenisation is coming soon to a jurisdiction near you (30th November 2022)”