Tagged: tokenization

June 30, 2024 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Real-World Asset Tokenization: A Game Changer for Global Trade, a new paper released by Standard Chartered and Synpulse, predicts that demand for overall tokenized assets could reach USD 30.1 trillion by 2034, and that trade finance assets “could become one of the top three tokenized… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 4:01 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a significant expansion in its asset tokenization initiatives, aiming to set industry-wide standards across various financial sectors, including fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and asset & wealth management. The announcement includes the successful completion of the first phase… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 11:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Top European tokenization platform, Tokeny, has distributed an email highlighting the fact that MiCA or Markets in Crypto Assets regulation, does not regulated digital assets which are securities or other financial assets. MiCA goes into force on June 30, 2024. The EU regulation provides rules… Read More

June 24, 2024 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Tauras, a digital asset firm currently serving big names like Santander, Credit Suisse, and Deutsche Bank, says it has added the Stellar Network to its custody offerings. Taurus custody service is named Taurus Protect. The company also provides tokenization services. Stellar is a popular public… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last month, the Tokenization Report  Act of 2024 (HR 8464) was introduced into Congress. The House legislation is sponsored by Representative William Timmons, a Republican from South Carolina. The bill, as it stands today, compels multiple federal authorities to review the potential of taking traditional… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 5:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European Blockchain Sandbox Brickken, a Barcelona-based startup that tokenizes real-world assets, has been selected to participate in the European Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Regulatory Sandbox. This regulatory sandbox will provide legal certainty for decentralized technological solutions, including blockchain, by identifying deployment obstacles from… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced its vision for 100% e-commerce tokenization in Europe by the end of the decade. This supports a global commitment to “phase out manual card entry and make e-commerce safer and more accessible for everyone.” As payments become more intricate, Mastercard is… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of financial institutions and Web3 innovators have contributed to an in-depth paper on a path to achieve interoperability for tokenized assets across public blockchains, private blockchains and legacy systems. Released recently, “Institutional Interoperability: How Financial Institutions Navigate a Multichain World” addresses how to… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced a significant milestone achieved by its tokenization technology, revealing that Visa tokens have generated more than $40 billion in incremental ecommerce revenue for businesses globally and saved $650 million2 in fraud in the last year. Visa also announced it has issued… Read More

May 31, 2024 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The  Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion, part of the House Financial Services Committee, has scheduled a hearing to review the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). Typically, this entails utilizing blockchain (or DLT) technology to turn assets into digital assets.  While traditional securities… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 3:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Colin Cunningham, Head of Tokenization & Alliances at Chainlink Labs, recalls that it was 2008 and he was in the back half of my economics degree when the global financial crisis struck. Insulated from the world behind college walls, Colin Cunningham says he observed former classmates… Read More

May 27, 2024 @ 10:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Brickken, a tokenizer of real-world assets, has been selected to participate in PwC’s Scale Digital Assets program, a collaborative initiative with GrowthBuilders. This follows a recent expansion towards Coinbase’s L2 Network and its first institutional client, a German venture capital fund. The PwC Scale program… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sally Meouche-Ghrawi, Executive Board Member of eSync Network, recently shared her views and insights regarding the importance of RWA (real-world assets) tokenization and the rise of blockchain technology. Sally Meouche discusses the potential benefits of leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline key processes. Our… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Project Agorá, launched by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a group of leading central banks and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), is requesting the private sector to join its exploration of how tokenization can enhance the functioning of wholesale cross-border payments. The call… Read More

May 8, 2024 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore and the United Kingdom have enhanced their existing relationship in regard to Fintech development and utilization. The UK is the top western Fintech hub and Singapore represents the most robust Fintech center in Asia. The initiative was led by HM Treasury and the Monetary… Read More

May 2, 2024 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, the platform focused on tokenizing real-world assets, announced the successful completion of a $47 million funding round led by BlackRock (Nasdaq: BLK). The strategic investment also includes funding from Hamilton Lane, ParaFi Capital, and Tradeweb Markets. This investment underscores Securitize’s efforts in “digitizing capital… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO is a recognized trailblazer when it comes to digital securities. An early adopter of the concept of tokenization and digital assets, today, tZERO is a regulated Broker Dealer and an SEC-approved alternative trading system (ATS). Utilizing blockchain technology, tZERO enables both digital securities and… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset has released a report highlighting developments related to the tokenization and on-chain adoption of Real-World Assets (RWAs). The report from Digital Asset Research “includes details on centralized industry players and asset class coverage, as well as coverage of select decentralized finance protocols working… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, announced that it is expanding the range of fund shares it offers in tokenized form with the provision of the BlackRock ICS US Treasury money market fund1 (MMF). This builds on its launch of tokenized access… Read More