Asset Management
SEI takes its tokenisation partners
In April, financial solutions giant SEI announced it had joined forces with relative minnow Ctrl Alt to take part in the Bank of England’s...
Schroders: Building for the future
One of the UK’s oldest and largest asset managers has set its sights on the future of investment and wants others to join the...
UK-first FX trade with tokenised collateral completed
Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments and digital asset exchange Archax have completed what they describe as a UK-first transaction using tokenised real-world assets as...
Franklin Templeton: Using market intel as a compass
Since last year, global asset management businesses have been scrambling to illustrate that they are making progress in blockchain and digital asset adoption.The revolutionary...
Members Cap launches tokenised ILS fund
Bermudan asset manager, Members Capital Management, has launched a tokenised insurance linked securities fund.The MCM Fund I invests in reinsurance contracts focussed on natural...
WisdomTree forecasts bitcoin and gold outlook
Amid surging sovereign debt, persistent inflation concerns, and diminishing institutional trust, investors are gravitating towards traditional safe-haven assets.A newly released analysis by WisdomTree anticipates...
QNB achieves Money Market Fund first
Qatar National Bank is to launch Dubai’s first ever tokenised money market fund within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in partnership with blockchain...
Schroders launches Global Digital Assets Centre in Singapore
Schroders, one of the UK’s largest asset managers, has launched a Global Digital Assets Centre of Excellence in Singapore to advance its capabilities in...
“No longer innovation. It’s preparation” – Generali’s tokenised future
One of Europe’s largest insurance investors has urged peers to get to develop and deploy a tokenisation and digital asset strategy – or be...
UK regulator urges industry to back tokenisation
The chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has urged the fund management industry to invest in its tokenisation and digital assets capabilities...
Janus Henderson to launch CLO fund on-chain
Janus Henderson investors is to launch its AAA Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) strategy “JAAA” as an on-chain investment product.The strategy – which is also...
Invesco outlines Solana ETF details
Invesco has filed a regulatory notice to launch an exchange traded fund that tracks the spot price of the Solana cryptocurrency.Solana is the native...
Bitwise Europe announced as Capital Pioneer DAS sponsor
Bitwise Europe has joined the growing roster of sponsors for Capital Pioneer’s Digital Asset Summit in October.The company, which issued Germany’s first crypto exchange...
Revealed: First UK tokenised fund
Baillie Gifford is the first asset manager to launch a fully tokenised fund in the UK.The tokenised fund is a feeder to Baillie Gifford’s...
Valour lists four ETPs on Swedish exchange
The march toward mainstream adoption of digital assets continues as Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies, has listed four new exchange-traded products (ETPs) on...
Disintermediation and revenue loss likely, warns Franklin boss
Traditional capital markets firms will have to change fee structures, suffer short-term revenue losses from intermediary functions and potentially suffer near-term balance sheet disruption.That’s...