Tahlia Kraefft examines the race to redefine how transactions are cleared and settled, and asks who comes out on top — tokenised fiats or central bank money?
Juan Andres Dudier Mendoza, head of product, digital asset stablecoin at Apex Group, examines how Brazil has built Latin America’s most comprehensive digital-asset regime, setting a new benchmark for operational, custody, and FX oversight in the region
Stablecoins are moving from proof of concept to financial infrastructure. Simone Cortese, head of Product at Fnality, explores what must change for them to scale safely
James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, assesses why Bitcoin has underperformed traditional safe havens following the Federal Reserve’s policy shift, considering how cyclical flows, muted institutional demand, and regulatory uncertainty are weighing on near-term performance
Tahlia Kraefft examines how as the United Kingdom’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation shifts from minimal oversight to a comprehensive financial services framework regime, is the regulation a brake on innovation or structure for scale?
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while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails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
