Rico van der Veen, co-founder and CEO at SemiLiquid Labs, considers that while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails
Nilmini Rubin, chief policy officer at Hedera, explores how stablecoins are emerging as a core component of global digital money, and why regulatory fragmentation risks undermining their cross-border potential
Led by the BIS, Project Agorá is exploring whether tokenised money and a unified ledger model can address the long-standing inefficiencies of wholesale cross-border payments
Rapid growth across event-based platforms is drawing attention from established exchanges and professional participants. Matt Barrett, CEO at Adaptive, looks at how long-term credibility depends on hard-won lessons from earlier digital market cycles
Experts from Broadridge examine how tokenisation is moving from pilot programmes to production-grade infrastructure, and what institutions must get right to make it work at scale
Magnus Haglind, senior vice president and head of Capital Markets Technology at Nasdaq, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss where traditional and emerging market models intersect, why liquidity and collateral remain the hard problems, and how extended trading hours are reshaping market structure
Steven Griffiths, founder of Absolute Collateral, considers how blockchain is following the same path collateral once did — moving steadily upstream as markets rethink where critical trading decisions should sit
Olivier Carré, technology and transformation leader at PwC Luxembourg, looks at the hype surrounding tokenisation, and asks, could it really unlock US$135 billion in cost savings for asset managers?
Karl Loomes, group editor of The Digital Assets Edge, examines how risk is distributed across the stablecoin stack — from issuers and banks to liquidity providers and users — and why treating stablecoins as ‘digital cash’ can obscure where exposure really sits
Glenn Handley, founder and CEO of SecFin Solutions, looks at why T+1 settlement and structural balance sheet pressures leave tokenisation not as an efficiency play, but as a necessity for systemic survival
What was once imagined as a single global system is splintering into regional ecosystems. From Singapore’s pilots to Brussels’ rulemaking and Washington’s regulatory rethink, the digital-assets landscape has entered a three-way contest of ambition, ideology and market design
