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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...
WisdomTree slashes prices on Bitcoin ETP
WisdomTree has slashed fees on its European-listed Physical Bitcoin exchange traded product to 0.25%, with effect from February 2025.The fee change is to align...
Franklin Templeton launches tokenised Lux fund
Franklin Templeton has launched its first fully tokenised, Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS product.The Franklin OnChain US Government Money Fund sits under its newly established Franklin Templeton...
Lunate launches Treasury ETF
Abu Dhabi-based investment manager Lunate Capital has announced the launch of the Chimera iBoxx US Treasury Bill ETF, listed on the emirate’s securities exchange.The...