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Stablecoins and Corporate Treasury: The $50M Liquidity Test
Stablecoins can move £50 million across borders in seconds, but that doesn't guarantee usable liquidity in a corporate bank account. Our £50M Treasury Test examines how stablecoins, tokenized deposits, Mastercard Move, Swift and Fnality address the gap between 24/7 settlement and fiat availability, who bears the liquidity costs, and where the commercial value lies.
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NYSE's Parent ICE and OKX Test Which Tokenization Model Can Scale US Equities Fastest
NYSE parent ICE and OKX are preparing to launch one of the first large-scale tests of the SEC’s third-party custodial tokenization model for U.S. equities. The structure could help determine which tokenization model scales public stocks onchain the fastest.
12 min read


HSBC's Largest Digital Bond Issuance: One Transaction, Multiple Layers of Interoperability
Hong Kong’s HK$20 billion digital green bond offering on HSBC Orion reveals what scaling tokenised capital markets requires: bank money that works across institutions, dependable interbank settlement and payment linked to bond delivery. We unpack the infrastructure and what remains before it can operate around the clock.
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Stablecoins and Corporate Treasury: The $50M Liquidity Test
Stablecoins can move £50 million across borders in seconds, but that doesn't guarantee usable liquidity in a corporate bank account. Our £50M Treasury Test examines how stablecoins, tokenized deposits, Mastercard Move, Swift and Fnality address the gap between 24/7 settlement and fiat availability, who bears the liquidity costs, and where the commercial value lies.
22 min read


NYSE's Parent ICE and OKX Test Which Tokenization Model Can Scale US Equities Fastest
NYSE parent ICE and OKX are preparing to launch one of the first large-scale tests of the SEC’s third-party custodial tokenization model for U.S. equities. The structure could help determine which tokenization model scales public stocks onchain the fastest.
12 min read


HSBC's Largest Digital Bond Issuance: One Transaction, Multiple Layers of Interoperability
Hong Kong’s HK$20 billion digital green bond offering on HSBC Orion reveals what scaling tokenised capital markets requires: bank money that works across institutions, dependable interbank settlement and payment linked to bond delivery. We unpack the infrastructure and what remains before it can operate around the clock.
8 min read


Tokenized Payments Are Becoming Enterprise Software: Who Wins the Infrastructure Market
Tokenized payments are becoming enterprise software. Where can infrastructure providers build scale and capture market share—and what will customers pay for? This Strategic Edge examines how interoperability, integration and distribution shape competition, and how providers can translate connectivity into payment, liquidity and treasury products that meet customer demand.
9 min read


How Emerging Models of Tokenized Deposit Interoperability Work
UK banks have put tokenized deposits to work in real customer transactions. Scaling those services depends on connecting banks, currencies and settlement systems. We examine the emerging interoperability models and where banks should invest.
8 min read


Uniswap, Tokenized Stocks and the SEC New Exemption Framework
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.
8 min read


Nasdaq vs NYSE vs LSEG: Tokenized Stock Strategies Compared
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.
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The Future of the Exchange Business: The Commercial Logic Behind Robinhood and Crypto.com’s Partnership
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.
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SEC Proposes Blockchain Native Transfer Agency Rules but Leaves the Hardest Questions Unresolved
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...
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Tokenized Deposits: How Citi and Swift’s Hub-of-Hubs Model Could Solve Interbank Reach
Citi’s live tokenized deposit transactions with FAB and OCBC reveal how institutional digital money could scale across banks. This Strategic Edge note examines Swift’s DLT ledger as the coordination layer, global banks as distribution hubs, and the emerging hub-of-hubs model for interbank payments, liquidity and tokenized asset settlement...
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Tokenized Money Market Funds: Four Pillars of Growth
Tokenized money market funds are moving beyond product launches. Stablecoin reserves, embedded distribution, treasury automation and collateral utility will determine which asset managers capture the market’s next wave of growth...
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mBridge Drives Standard Chartered’s $11B Payment Run Rate
Standard Chartered has disclosed that its tokenised-money activity reached an approximately $11 billion monthly run rate...
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Clearstream D7’s €80B Milestone Shows How Capital Markets Tokenization Actually Scales
Clearstream D7 has processed over €80 billion in digital securities. Discover why its model is scaling capital markets tokenization...
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Citi Custody+ and the GSIB Digital Asset Endgame
How Citi Custody+ and BitGo reveal the future of digital-asset custody as banks integrate cash, FX, servicing, collateral and tokenized finance...
7 min read


Why the Future of Crypto Exchanges Involves Less Crypto
Crypto exchanges are evolving into multi-asset financial infrastructure. Explore the implications for wealth managers, traditional brokers and neobanks...
7 min read


2025 Crypto Revenue Breakdown
Crypto sector generated approximately $78 billion in revenue in 2025, according to ARK Invest’s analysis. Key takeaways...
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Tokenized Money Market Funds: From Crypto-Native Products to Institutional Cash Management
Tokenized money market funds are evolving from crypto-native Treasury products into institutional cash-management infrastructure...
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Tokenizing the London Bullion Market: Turning vaulted gold into programmable institutional collateral
Explore how JPMorgan, HSBC, UBS, ICBC Standard Bank and Citi could benefit as tokenized gold becomes programmable institutional collateral.
8 min read


Project Agora: How Central Bank and Commercial Bank Digital Money Can Interoperate
Project Agora just demonstrated digital money interoperability by completing real value transactions using tokenized commercial bank deposits and central bank reserves on shared infrastructure...
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Institutional Digital Money: KB Kookmin Bank plugs into JPMorgan Kinexys for Always-On USD Payment
Institutional digital money is developing through a new model: global infrastructure supplied by GSIBs and always-on payment services distributed by local banks...
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