Tokenized assets can move around the clock. This Strategic Edge analysis examines what must happen before that mobility becomes usable institutional collateral.
Visa stablecoin monetization spans card network fees, payment orchestration and issuance infrastructure. With settlement surpassing a $25 billion annualized run rate, we examine where Visa already earns revenue, where new fee pools could emerge, and what remains undisclosed.
How crypto vaults are evolving from DeFi lending pools into capital allocation and securities financing infrastructure—and what institutions need next.
DBS, OCBC and UOB have completed live interbank SGD tokenized deposit transactions using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. The bigger story is not 24/7 payments, but Swift’s attempt to become the common orchestration and interoperability layer connecting tokenized bank money across institutions while final settlement remains on existing rails.
The SEC has recognised permissioned AMMs as potential securities-market infrastructure. Uniswap already has much of the technical architecture. The question now is whether it can turn that advantage into a regulated venue, institutional liquidity and value accrual.
Deutsche Bank plans to launch digital asset custody for institutional clients - first step toward offering a vertically integrated, full-service tokenized finance platform...
Nasdaq, NYSE and LSEG are building tokenized stock businesses around different commercial bets. We compare their approaches to shareholder rights, settlement, extended trading and crypto-native distribution and what those choices reveal about the customers they want to reach.
UniCredit’s reported custody and brokerage plans raise a bigger question: where can banks win in digital assets? Its wealth businesses in Italy, Germany and Austria could provide a powerful distribution advantage...
What does 1,000% surge in a single product category signal about the future of exchanges? We unpack the numbers, acquisition strategy and ownership logic behind the Robinhood and Crypto.com partnership and the opportunity to earn beyond crypto trading.
The SEC’s transfer agent proposal could bring blockchain into official securities ownership records. This Strategic Edge note examines what the reforms enable for tokenized securities and digital-asset transfer agents—and what remains unresolved around identity, ledger control, regulatory access and transfer finality...
Standard Chartered issues $200M digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI, showing how capital-markets tokenization can scale by combining DLT-native primary issuance with existing settlement, liquidity and investor infrastructure...
Crypto exchanges are evolving into multi-asset financial infrastructure. Explore the implications for wealth managers, traditional brokers and neobanks...
Project Agora just demonstrated digital money interoperability by completing real value transactions using tokenized commercial bank deposits and central bank reserves on shared infrastructure...
Embedded wallets are the relationship layer for onchain finance and Kraken, the $20B exchange, just acquired infrastructure that has powered more than 60 million of them...
Institutional digital money is developing through a new model: global infrastructure supplied by GSIBs and always-on payment services distributed by local banks...
Institutional digital cash is evolving rapidly as tokenized deposits, blockchain-based payments and tokenized securities settlement move into production...
