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
Karl Loomes, group editor at The Digital Assets Edge, looks at the potential for stablecoins, acting as digital dollars, to exacerbate dollarisation in emerging market economies
As institutional adoption accelerates, the digital asset industry faces a new priority: ensuring market integrity. Komainu’s chief commercial officer Darren Jordan explores why structural risks, fragmented liquidity, and weak surveillance now pose the biggest barriers to scalable institutional capital
The United States’ GENIUS Act has been hailed as a breakthrough for stablecoins, but its impact stretches well beyond digital assets. As regulatory clarity brings stablecoins closer to the financial mainstream, asset servicers are assessing what the new framework means for settlement, custody, and post-trade infrastructure
EJ Liotta, head of prime finance and equity derivatives at TS Imagine, on issues surrounding using tokenised securities as collateral and the implications for prime brokers
Australian banks and industry participants have set sail on an initiative that seeks to strengthen the region’s financial market, and which could provide greater efficiency and liquidity to the repo market. Carmella Haswell reports
