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What's the risk?

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

Theatre is over

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

Asset tokenisation

Sorin Jitaru, digital assets expert at CACEIS, looks at how blockchain technology could transform the alternative investment landscape

The digital assets Cold War

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

Unstable

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

Why market integrity is the next great hurdle for institutional crypto

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

A stroke of GENIUS for stablecoins as post-trade faces change

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