The Clearing House and Quant are bringing tokenized-deposit interoperability to America's $2 trillion-a-day wholesale payment infrastructure. We examine CHIPS's 26:1 liquidity efficiency, Swift's global connectivity advantage and why Fnality's common settlement asset could reshape institutional payments, securities settlement and collateral mobility.
Visa and Mastercard are stitching together the infrastructure for 24/7 stablecoin-funded corporate payments, connecting blockchain transfers, payment orchestration and fiat payouts. But who provides the liquidity that makes funds available in recipients' bank accounts, and who bears the financing cost? Using a $50 million cross-border treasury transaction, we examine the three critical layers of global payments, compare liquidity funding costs against transaction revenues and
BlackRock’s USD Institutional Liqudity Digital Fund or BUIDL has been the talk of the financial press recently. As the first fund management product specifically launched on the blockchain by BlackRock to address the needs of the tokenized world that banking, finance and asset management are moving into, it is a watershed moment for the tokenization space and a massive validation for the utility of blockchains. The realized inflows totalled more than $250mill which blew past
