DTCC launches landmark tokenization platform with JPMorgan tokenizing Invesco's QQQ...

Putting financial markets onchain could add £33B to the UK's economy. So what's stopping us...

Circle, the biggest US stablecoin issuer, just became a digital asset infrastructure bank...

Swift launches 24/7 tokenized deposit payments with 17 global banks, including HSBC, Citi, and Standard Chartered, preparing for first transactions...

EIB issues digital securities and gets used in Eurosystem for collateral...

Tokenized stocks just crossed a major commercialization milestone as 430 tokenized stocks from Ondo get listed on Uniswap...

Standard Chartered has executed the first live digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group...

FCA publishes its final crypto rulebooks for UK. Key takeaways...

SG FORGE and Euroclear to explore USD stablecoin settlement in capital market transactions...

JPMorgan drops new report on Treasury Management in Tokenization and AI era. Key takeways...

UBS and Nethermind completes PoCs showing Ethereum can support operational and compliance needs of regulated financial institutions...

Bank of England drops stablecoin holding limits and eases reserve requirements in move aimed at supporting GBP stablecoin adoption...

Digital Asset, the company behind Canton Network, completes $355M Series F round at $2B valuation...

HSBC's Head of Global Payment Solutions, Manish Kohli, and Consensys' CEO, Joseph Lubin, discuss where tokenization is heading. Key takeaways...

JPMorgan's Global Head of Kinexys Oli Harris says traditional finance and public blockchains is converging. Top takeaways...

Apex Group has announced its fund servicing role in supporting a onchain-native real estate fund developed in collaboration with Goldman Sachs, LRC Group, Archax, and Ownera...

Citi's latest report Tokenization 2030 forecast 32,300% base-case growth for tokenized assets driven by U.S. equities, Treasuries, and money market funds in latest report. Key takeaways...

BOE and FCA drop "Future of Tokenization" consultation report. Key takeaways...

KfW reaches €50 billion in digital securities issuance as institutions embrace tokenization through Clearstream's D7 platform...

BIS Project Agora: tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits can operate on a shared ledge to upgrade wholesale cross-border payments...

Onchain vaults, or pooled investment vehicles deployed on blockchain rails, have scaled rapidly from $24B AUM in 2023 to $131B in 2026, a 541% increase according to S&P Global...

DTCC and Stellar Development Foundation to bring trillions of DTC-eligible tokenized US equities onto Stellar...

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...

Tokenized securities trading is just found its distribution engine in Europe as flatexDEGIRO and Societe Generale partner with Seturion...

SEC moves toward enabling tokenized equities trading...

Standard Chartered moves to take full control of Zodia Custody and expands digital asset custody footprint...

JPMorgan Asset Management to launch second tokenized MMF on Ethereum...

JPMorgan Kinexys platform has processed $3 trillion worth of tokenized repo transactions since launch six years ago according to Bloomberg...

Standard Chartered powers custody infrastructure for TP ICAP's Fusion Digital Assets to support institutional digital asset demand...

ECB President Christine Lagarde: Euro stablecoins are NOT the right path for Europe’s monetary future...

JPMorgan enables cross-border fiat payout for Ripple via Mastercard and from Ondo Finance's tokenized money market fund...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) releases framework for fund tokenisation, signalling path towards FULLY ONCHAIN fund operating models. Key takeaways...

Tokenized funds will NOT reach trillions in AUM through product innovation alone. They require institutional-grade operating infrastructure behind them. State Street is now building the infrastructure layer to solve it.

Tokenized stock infrastructure just took a major leap forward as Broadridge and Ondo Finance team up to bring shareholder voting to tokenized equities

Standard Chartered, BlackRock and OKX launch joint collateral framework enabling tokenized MMF for institutional crypto trading.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the official nonpartisan research arm of Congress, published a detailed overview of decentralized finance (DeFi), offering one of the clearest windows yet into how U.S. lawmakers are being educated on the role of DeFi within financial markets.

DTCC Chief Technology Officer, Dan Doney: "a trusted intermediary layer such as CSD is vital in a tokenized financial system"

In a bombshell report, BIS explained crypto exchanges replicate core banking and capital markets functions, but without equivalent regulation, transparency or safeguards. Key takeaways...

Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart Group, Cashlink along with 30+ European market participants just called for urgent reform of the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime. Key points...

BIS's General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos warns that the US-led stablecoin push risks regulatory arbitrage and capital control evasion.

Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B as one of its lending product suffered a $290M hack last night.

German bank KfW plans to actively switch blockchain infrastructure and security registrar during the lifecycle of a live tokenized bond to stress-test DLT infrastructure resilience.

Deutsche Borse has invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken, as the Frankfurt stock exchange operator moves to offer access to a wider array of securities over blockchain rails. The deal, which gives Deutsche Börse a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the company.

The Staff of the Division of Trading and Markets of the SEC issues statement clarifying when digital interfaces (apps, front-ends, wallets) trigger broker-dealer registration. Key takeaways:

IMF: Tokenization is NOT digitization 2.0 - it is a structural redesign of liquidity dynamics, governance, and systemic risks.

DZ BANK (issuer) and KfW (investor) completed a crypto security issuance under Germany’s eWpG, powered by a Smart Bond Contract and without a CSD.

ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone laid out the vision for a tokenzied future for the bloc in a recent speech titled Building the Rails for Europe’s Tokenised Financial Markets. Key takeaways:

In a speech titled, Number Go Down and Other Schadenfreude, the SEC Chair lays out the forthcoming Innovation Exemption framework. Key points:

SEC has approved Nasdaq's request to settle Russel 1000, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 ETFs in tokenized forms. But this is NOT a disruptive leap toward on-chain markets. This is tokenization without disruption:

SEC & CFTC drops formal crypto taxonomy. Here is what it means.