Where Digital Finance

Meets Traditional Markets

Features

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

Where Digital Finance

Meets Traditional Markets