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.
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.
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.
At the recent RWA London Summit, one topic dominated my panel discussion: tokenized assets as collateral. A variety of views emerged, including using more exotic tokenized assets other than tokenized MMF as collateral. While I recognize the potential of these alternative assets, I made one thing clear—this is a conversation about the future, not the present. Right now, tokenized products must meet investor demands, and illiquid assets simply don’t. Even the most prestigious
