Investments
Tracking Standard Chartered’s digital journey
As Standard Chartered launches digital assets trading for institutional clients and is set to become one of the first UK banks to apply for an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Trust in an institutional digital asset future
In my last article I discussed how policy and regulatory developments in the United States might be conducive to faster and more widespread adoption...
NYSE boss: Investors adjusting growth projections
Institutional investors are adjusting their growth projections for companies seeking to IPO, according to Michael Harris, Global Head of Capital Markets at NYSE.Addressing delegates...