Tagged: tokenization

September 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX: D05) and Citi (NYSE: C) have shown that commercial banks can move US dollars across the Pacific on a Saturday, without waiting for Monday morning clearing windows. On 5 September 2026, the two institutions completed a live dollar transfer between DBS in Singapore… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A heated public argument between AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) CEO Adam Aron and Robinhood’s (NASDAQ:HOOD) leadership has turned a niche product—tokenized stock exposure—into a test of who controls a company’s name, capital, and investor rights. On September 3, 2026, Aron said Robinhood had listed a… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) has completed a live tokenized payment exercise on the Project Agorá platform, joining a broader international effort to modernize wholesale cross-border transfers while keeping settlement inside the regulated banking system. The trial moved tokenized funds between TD’s New York branch, operating… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 1:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aegis Trust, a South Dakota–chartered firm that acts as an SEC-qualified custodian for digital assets, has unveiled plans for what it describes as the first tokenized money market fund built around social impact. The announcement, issued from Pierre on September 2, 2026, frames the product… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed the first real update of its transfer-agent rules since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The move would facilitate new rules that enable tokenized assets and blockchain technology. Transfer agents are regulated entities that perform an important… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Payward (Kraken’s parent company) announced a partnership today to begin tokenizing shares, with more digital asset innovation in the pipeline. Indicating its interest in pursuing tokenization or digital securities, the LSE stated: “The London Stock Exchange is assessing a… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam is reportedly building a supervised market for tokenized real-world assets, treating blockchain not as a speculative venue but as a new channel for raising capital against tangible economic activity. The core legal instrument is Government Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP, signed on 9 September 2025. It launched… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable tokenized stocks. In a post on X, Payward said it would modernize UK equity markets by working with the LSE. “[The] LSE plans to list the full xStocks suite on LSE 24,… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO and ICE (NYSE:ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), have signed a deal to partner on the tokenization of public securities. At the same time, ICE has committed to investing in tZERO. The details on the investment were not immediately… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 3:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monetae, a regulated digital finance company focused on Latin America, has introduced Monetae Markets, a new offering that gives customers in El Salvador exposure to tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds starting at just five dollars. Alpaca supplies the underlying brokerage infrastructure, handling custody and… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance has named Allison Parent as its chief policy officer, adding a veteran of global financial regulation as the firm pushes tokenized assets further into mainstream markets. Parent spent nearly a decade as executive director of the Global Financial Markets Association, representing major banks… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Gracy Chen , CEO of Bitget  |  

Markets now price the news around the clock. The exchanges that host them still keep office hours. That gap is about to matter to everyone, not just to traders. Start with a scene that now plays out every few weeks. A large company reports its… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has unveiled Automated Token Portfolios, or ATPs, a new offering that delivers institutionally structured model portfolios composed of tokenized stocks. These portfolios reside directly in an investor’s crypto wallet and draw on Coinbase’s tokenized stock products.Under this arrangement, Bitwise creates the underlying… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global asset management firm Franklin Templeton has joined forces with Hong Kong-based digital asset platform HashKey Exchange to make a tokenized money market fund available to investors throughout Asian markets. The collaboration marks another significant step in bringing traditional finance products onto blockchain infrastructure while… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India is set to introduce its inaugural tokenized corporate bonds in September, marking a significant step toward integrating blockchain technology into the country’s debt markets for near-instant transaction settlements. According to multiple sources familiar with the plans, this pilot initiative will be led by REC… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO has announced a partnership with Sui to enable digital securities, or tokenized assets. The company says its services will integrate directly with the Sui blockchain to support trading, issuance, custody, and more for institutional-grade digital securities. Sui is a layer-one blockchain created specifically for… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) tokenized stocks are now on Base using its B20 standard. The group quickly points out that these are “real ownership” and not a “workaround,” as each digital asset represents 1-to-1 shares held by a custodian. The digital asset is not a synthetic product… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has completed the issuance of $200 million in three-year floating-rate digitally native notes, becoming the Global Systemically Important Bank and a UK-based issuer that has now placed such instruments on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure. The notes, created natively on distributed… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has outlined a bold outlook suggesting that blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) transaction activity could expand by as much as 100 times in the years ahead. In a recent investment note examining common investor missteps, Hougan… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two international banks have completed the inaugural live interbank transaction involving tokenized deposits on a blockchain-enabled platform developed by Swift. The milestone, announced on August 19, 2026, underscores growing progress toward seamless, round-the-clock cross-border payments using regulated bank-issued digital money. Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) and… Read More