Morgan Stanley is using DTCC’s Tokenization Service. We examine what is live, what margin and financing workflows require, and where Treasuries and equities could deliver commercial value.
Tokenized assets can move around the clock. This Strategic Edge analysis examines what must happen before that mobility becomes usable institutional collateral.
Visa stablecoin monetization spans card network fees, payment orchestration and issuance infrastructure. With settlement surpassing a $25 billion annualized run rate, we examine where Visa already earns revenue, where new fee pools could emerge, and what remains undisclosed.
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.
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.
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.
Revolut and Standard Chartered launched stablecoin initiatives days apart—but their commercial models could not be more different. This analysis compares Revolut’s likely low-margin customer-acquisition playbook with Standard Chartered’s institutional infrastructure strategy.
Standard Chartered issues $200M digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI, showing how capital-markets tokenization can scale by combining DLT-native primary issuance with existing settlement, liquidity and investor infrastructure...
Project Agora just demonstrated digital money interoperability by completing real value transactions using tokenized commercial bank deposits and central bank reserves on shared infrastructure...
HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc are set to become among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, giving two of the city’s note-issuing banks a central role in the government’s push to position itself as a global digital-asset hub
Standard Chartered is another prominent bank actively engaged in the digital asset space. However, it is not focused on building out its own blockchain infrastructure to support its product offerings
