Funds
Industry responds to FCA’s tokenisation plans
Mobius, a modern pension investment platform, has submitted a response to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultation on progressing fund tokenisation in the UK....
UBS completes first tokenised fund transaction
UBS has executed its first live tokenised fund transaction leveraging the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard. The completion marks the first on-chain subscription...
Tokenised MMFs cleared for UK–EU collateral use, says GDF
Global Digital Finance (GDF) has published a landmark report and sandbox results demonstrating the legal and operational viability of tokenised money market funds (TMMFs)...
Tokenised funds bridge DeFi and TradFi
The convergence of traditional asset management and decentralised finance has pushed the opportunity for tokenised funds to $235 billion. According to research by Calastone, asset...
Standard Chartered deepens crypto push
SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered, has committed $250 million to a digital assets fund, Bloomberg reported, in the latest sign of institutional...
New funds broaden digital access
CI Global Asset Management (CI GAM) has enhanced a series of its digital asset investment funds.The initiatives include the launch of CI Galaxy Core...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
Northern Trust outlines futureproofing strategy
Northern Trust has laid out the extent of its preparatory work in digital assets at Morgan Stanley’s investment conference focussed on strategic growth and...
Franklin Templeton offers intraday yields through platform
Franklin Templeton has launched a new intraday yield feature on its blockchain-integrated investment platform “Benji”.The feature allows investors to earn returns on tokenised securities...
BNP Paribas AM trials blockchain-based MMF shares
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched a project to test natively tokenised Money Market Fund (MMF) shares, using blockchain technology for cross-border...
Legal & General IM’s money market drive
Of all the adages about wholesale change taking time to achieve, the turning round of an oil tanker seems the most applicable to the...