Tokenized funds dominate AUM. Tokenized equities is all about volume. And tokenized commodities are overwhelmingly a gold market.

Standard Chartered is expanding its institutional digital asset custody footprint to Singapore, its fourth major market alongside Luxembourg, Hong Kong and the UAE. The move highlights two increasingly important dimensions of institutional digital asset competition: vertical product capabilities across stablecoins, payments, tokenisation and crypto ETFs, and geographic coverage across key financial hubs.

SAP Pay is bringing USDC and EURC into corporate treasury workflows, turning stablecoins into another payment rail alongside bank transfers and real-time payments.

OKX’s latest funding round is about more than capital. With ICE, Standard Chartered, Circle and Ripple now strategically aligned with the exchange, OKX is emerging as a potentially important distribution channel for stablecoins, tokenized equities and future onchain financial products.

UK Government has now assembled the core market structure for DIGIT, its first digitally native sovereign bond. With six Joint Lead Managers, HSBC Orion as issuer DSD and LSEG B3 as investor DSD, the pilot is moving from design into execution and could become a major test of interoperable digital securities and cash settlement infrastructure.

Europe’s largest tokenized cash management startup Spiko just closed a $90M Series B at an $800M valuation.

Open USD is testing a different stablecoin playbook. Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase and Shopify are committing $1B+ of initial liquidity while sharing reserve economics with the businesses driving adoption.

Visa and Lloyds Banking Group have demonstrated how stablecoins can move beyond crypto-native payments into mainstream institutional settlement.

ANZ, BHP, Citi and Swift have demonstrated how tokenized commercial bank deposits can support live, 24/7 cross-border corporate treasury payments.

Citi today expanded Citi Token Services into Japan and the UAE, extending its tokenized deposit capabilities across its global institutional banking network. Japan will support USD transactions, while the UAE will support both USD and EUR...

Equiniti, Alpaca, Bullish, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth have formed the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition, bringing together transfer agency, brokerage, clearing, trading and distribution infrastructure to build the next generation of tokenized public equities.

UBS and Mizuho Complete Cross-Border Interbank Payments via Swift Ledger

Citi Partners with Coinbase to bring Stablecoin to Corporate Clients

Investing is moving onchain as BlackRock makes three model portfolios available for blockchain distribution in partnership with Ondo Finance...

NYSE’s partnership with Blockchain.com adds an important piece to its emerging tokenized equities strategy: crypto-native distribution. As Nasdaq and NYSE build competing digital market infrastructure, distribution, liquidity and control of the end-user relationship are becoming critical battlegrounds.

BMO, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, RBC, Scotiabank and TD Join Tokenized Deposit Race

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.

Global tokenized asset market grew 290% in last 12 months according to Deutsche Bank Institute. Here are the key trends, signals and what's next...

Ondo Finance subsidiary Oasis Pro (acquired by Ondo Finance Inc.) has joined The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Fund/SERV platform.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues landmark exemption allowing the trading of tokenized stocks. BUT there is a caveat and an unresolved question...