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.
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...
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.
BNP Paribas and HSBC have facilitated a cross-border, cross-currency tokenized-deposit transaction for Siemens using Swift’s shared ledger. The transaction reveals how a hub-of-hubs model could connect banks’ proprietary tokenized-deposit systems without requiring corporates to adopt new treasury infrastructure...
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...
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...
Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), one of Thailand's Big Four banks, has become the first financial institution to go live with Citi's integrated 24/7 USD Clearing and Citi Token Services solution...
Bank of England's Megan Greene: "The popularity of stablecoins could soon fade, replaced by tokenised deposits, or digital versions of traditional bank deposits."
BIS Project Agora: tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits can operate on a shared ledge to upgrade wholesale cross-border payments...
Digital assets are pushing global markets towards a 24/7, always-on system. Bank of England's latest paper on extending settlement hours is one of the clearest signals yet of where this is heading...
