Why now?
Pershing Square USA, Ltd. Withdraws IPO for US Closed-End Fund
Swiss stock exchange says trading set to resume after outage
Pentagon can't account for 63% of nearly $4 trillion in assets
California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud
Russia Legalizes Crypto Payments for Trade
One Trading lands regulatory approval for European crypto derivatives trading
Sen. Cynthia Lummis announces bill for US Treasury to buy 1 million bitcoin worth $68 billion
Slovenia Becomes First European Union Nation to Issue Sovereign Digital Bond
Franklin Templeton launches 7 new DIFC-domiciled funds for retail investors
Credibility of UAE crypto exchanges enhanced with new stablecoin regulation
Bankers want regulators, police to get serious about check fraud
Ackman’s Pershing Square Postpones US Closed-End Fund IPO
Investors are turning to secondary markets in search of liquidity
Rule Change Amending Section 302.00 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual to Exempt Closed-End Funds Registered Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 From the Requirement to Hold Annual Shareholder Meetings
JPMorgan warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts
CFPB Bans Excessive Credit Card Late Fees, Lowers Typical Fee from $32 to $8
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev touts crypto and tokenization as the natural transition for financial services: ‘An obvious technology advantage’
Robinhood bets big on crypto with $200 million deal for Bitstamp
Private equity exit value sinks to 3-year low in Q1
Chinese investors dump a record $42.6 billion in U.S. stocks and bonds as the 2024 presidential election nears
London Stock Exchange services disrupted as markets drop on IT outage
BlackRock’s Next Big Move: Bringing Private Markets To The Forefront
Don't Tell Anyone, but Private Blockchains Handle Over $1.5T of Securities Financing a Month
JPMorgan Fined $348 Million for Lapses in Trade Monitoring
NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10M consumers could be hurt
RFK Jr.: ‘I’m gonna put the entire US budget on blockchain’
Backed Finance raises $9.5 million in Series A funding round to accelerate tokenization for institutional clients
Quincy, Massachusetts, issues first blockchain-based bond deal in U.S.
BlackRock clearly wants to take crypto seriously. Too bad it’s forever silly.
HSBC’s Gold Token Goes Live for Retail Investors in Hong Kong
'Glitch' at Ethiopia's biggest bank sees customers withdraw millions that isn't theirs
Figure Technologies Announces Figure Markets, Home to a New Decentralized Custody Crypto Exchange and Blockchain-Native Security Marketplace
Royal Canadian Mint launches DLT solution for gold
City of St Gallen to issue CHF 100 million digital bond on SDX
Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon test blockchain network with other firms
BlackRock touts 'monumental' impact of tokenization, even if it arrives slowly
UBS makes the case for DLT to optimize intraday liquidity
Private markets primed for $83.5tn wealth transfer
GPs seek $138.8bn for secondaries to capitalize on strong demand
PE exit activity's downward slope
Goldman Sachs Plans To Launch Tokenization Funds, RWA Marketplace
Goldman Sachs to launch three tokenization projects by end of year, says digital assets chief
Eric Zhu Secures $2.3M Seed Funding For Aviato From 8VC SoftBank And Soma Capital
Tokenized Funds
- March 2023: Second interim report from Technology Working Group to the Asset Management Taskforce - Further Fund Tokenisation: Achieving Investment Fund 3.0 Through Collaboration
- March 2023: IA-LiCuido paper on MMF collateralisation
- November 2023: FCA Tokenised Funds webpage
- November 2023: HM Treasury Welcomes the Report to the Asset Management Taskforce
- November 2023: FCA letter to the Technology Working Group
- November 2023: Interim report from Technology Working Group to the Asset Management Taskforce - UK Fund Tokenisation: A Blueprint for Implementation
- October 2023: FCA joins global regulatory digital innovation workstream with MAS and others
- October 2023: FCA confirms priority work on UK fund tokenisation
- May 2023: Eversheds sets out potential ways forward for tokenised fund registers
- April 2023: City minister re-establishes forum to identify and harness the potential of innovative new technologies for the UK asset management industry
- February 2023: FCA includes fund tokenisation in its discussion paper on the UK fund regime
- March 2022: Apex Group acquires majority stake in FAC
- November 2021: SS&C: Tokenization of Funds Mapping a way forward
- September 2021: LSEG / FundAdminChain Tokenised Funds Round Table
- June 2024: Monetary Authority of Singapore publishes Global Layer One (GL1) Whitepaper
- November 2023: HK SFC sets requirements for tokenised investment products
- October 2023: HK SFC to push ahead with retail fund tokenisation amid battle for tech ascendency
- October 2023: UBS Asset Management launches first blockchain-native tokenized VCC fund pilot in Singapore
- September 2023: Hong Kong regulator looks at secondary market trading of tokenised funds
- June 2023: Schroders explores capabilities of tokenised investment vehicle with Monetary Authority of Singapore
- June 2023: Hong Kong markets watchdog SFC ‘happy to discuss’ tokenisation with fund industry
- August 2022: SFIG launches Fundnode utility
- March 2024: Blackrock launches tokenised fund on Ethereum
- July 2023: WisdomTree Prime launches in select US States
- April 2023: Franklin Templeton Money Market Fund Launches on Polygon Blockchain
- January 2023: Hamilton Lane tokenises their Equity Opportunities fund
- December 2022: WisdomTree Announces Nine New Blockchain-Enabled Funds are Effective with the SEC
- April 2022: Digital Funds Seeks to Launch Tokenized S&P 500 Fund
- February 2022: Arca Labs: Blockchain Transferred Funds (BTFs): The New Frontier for Investment Funds
- December 2021: Financial Times: Blockchain-powered breakthrough on mutual fund
Ireland
- June 2024: Fidelity International Tokenizes Money Market Fund on JPMorgan’s Blockchain
- October 2023: JPMorgan Uses Blockchain Settlement in BlackRock-Barclays Trade
Luxembourg
- June 2024: Archax makes abrdn money market fund accessible and transferable on Algorand blockchain using Quantoz EURD electronic money token
- March 2024: Moreliquid and Tokeny tokenise the HSBC EUR Liquidity Fund
- February 2024: Apex tokenises Hamilton Lane's Private Assets fund
- August 2023: Deutsche Boerse acquires FundsDLT
- June 2023: Digital asset exchange tokenises stake in £16bn abrdn money market fund
- April 2023: Azimut successfully tokenizes units of a Luxembourg Investment Fund in collaboration with BNP Paribas and Allfunds Blockchain
- June 2022: CSSF: Circular confirming that shareholder registers can be held on DLT
- April 2022: FundsDLT: Digital fund distribution is here today
- February 2022: FundsDLT: DLT and the new model transfer agent
- January 2022: The Use of DLT in the Asset Management Sector – Assets, Infrastructure and Regulation in Transition
- October 2021: FundsDLT and UBS AM explore blockchain-based fund distribution
- 2021: Tokeny: The benefits of tokenized funds
France
- September 2023: La Française partners with Allfunds blockchain venture
- June 2023: IZNES and Generali: Successful use of blockchain for unit-linked asset management
- June 2023: Rothschild AM acquires a stake in Iznes and launches tokenised funds
- November 2022: Axa IM lists first fund on blockchain platform
- November 2022: Iznes blockchain marketplace adopts a new technology
- June 2022: La Francaise makes real estate funds available on Iznes
- June 2022: Natixis trials money fund sales via blockchain
- April 2022: Generali fund arm carries out first blockchain transaction
- March 2022: BNP Paribas & Iznes
- January 2018: SETL launches IZNES blockchain platform
Germany
- September 2023: Metzler issues tokenised shares for sustainable growth fund
- June 2022: 'KryptoFAV' law enters into effect, enabling German funds to issue tokens
- April 2022: Gridl Asset Management GmbH enables investors to invest in the first digital twin of a mutual fund in Germany
- April 2022: BNP Paribas conducts PoC for mutual fund transaction on fundsonchain’s settlement platform
- February 2022: UI Enlyte 'Imagine a world...'
Italy
- July 2023: Mediobanca launches tokenisation initiative
- May 2022: Azimut goes live with its D2C solution, Beewise
Spain
- May 2021: Allfunds and Renta 4 join forces in Spanish Regulatory Sandbox project for the Tokenization and Custody of Investment Funds - (since completed Sep 2022)
- May 2020: FNZ lands admin blockchain deal for South African fund management sector
- December 2022: Vanguard launches blockchain platform in Australia