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Are stablecoins securities?

With regulators scrambling to classify digital assets, stablecoins sit on a fault line between payments and securities. Karl Loomes unpacks the emerging token taxonomy and what it means for investors across Europe and the United States

The custody battle for digital assets

As institutional demand for digital assets accelerates, Zarah Choudhary examines how traditional custodians and crypto-native firms are competing — and converging — to define the future of digital asset custody

Hitting the mainstream

Matteo Carminati, head of product at Komainu, looks at how traditional institutions have been taking up digital assets, and how the next phase will be defined by interoperability

Reshaping servicing models

Zarah Choudhary speaks with Eamonn O’Callaghan, Ireland-based global head of ETF Product at CACEIS, about the forces driving the expansion of ETFs and how digital assets and tokenisation could influence the future of the ETF ecosystem

Beyond electronic trading

Nick Delikaris, chief product officer at EquiLend, explores how connected infrastructure, shared data, and digital market frameworks are reshaping securities finance, as institutions move towards a unified operating model spanning traditional and tokenised assets

The institutionalisation of tokenised funds

David Lloyd, CEO of CV5 Capital, considers how institutional capital will not be unlocked by technological novelty alone, but by the development of robust, regulator-aligned infrastructure that meets the governance, custody, and compliance standards investors require

Diverging Paths

The tokenised bond market remains small, but the motives and methods of corporate and sovereign issuers are markedly different. Karl Loomes examines the two paths and what they mean for institutional investors

Rewiring Settlement

As the London Stock Exchange Group advances plans for a Digital Securities Depository, Zarah Choudhary explores whether digital-native settlement represents incremental enhancement or the beginning of structural redesign across Europe’s post-trade ecosystem

Washington’s crypto pivot from enforcement to market structure

Tahlia Kraefft examines the joint framework between the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role in Washington’s crypto supervisory shift and wider effort to integrate digital assets into the traditional financial regulatory system

The tokenisation marathon

Ziv Keinan, founder of STG Security Token Community and head of markets and partnerships at XDC Network, speaks with Asset Servicing Times about the evolving institutional adoption of tokenised real-world assets and the role of stablecoins in financial infrastructure

Bridging the trust gap in digital assets

Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss the trust gap between traditional finance and digital assets — and why verifiable identity may be the missing layer needed to scale tokenised markets

What market convergence means for digital asset trading

Ignacio Aguirre, chief marketing officer at Bitget, looks at the broadening adoption of DeFi and the company’s evolution into a universal exchange