Societe Generale issued its first digital bond in the United States, utilizing new tokenization capabilities provided by Broadridge Financial Solutions, a services and systems provider for securities operations. The digital bonds were registered by Societe Generale-Forge, a subsidiary of Societe Generale dedicated to digital assets, officials say. The new tokenization support from Broadridge helps firms… Read More >>
Time to Unify the SEC & CFTC?
Should the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) become a single, unified regulator? It’s not a new question, and recently I have been asking industry veterans if now is a good time to unite the regulators as a way of achieving regulatory efficiencies. But Timothy G. Massad,… Read More >>
JP Morgan Embraces Tokenization for PE Funds
J.P. Morgan Private Bank, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and Citco have completed a first by processing a tokenized private equity fund via the Kinexys Fund Flow solution from the Kinexys blockchain business unit of J.P. Morgan, officials say. The new solution “collects, harmonizes, and records investor register and transactional data” for the Kinexys Digital Assets… Read More >>
Tokenization Stalled by Regulatory Uncertainty: Broadridge Survey
Asset and wealth managers are dragging their feet when it comes to the adoption of tokenized assets, according to a new poll from securities operations services and systems giant Broadridge Financial Solutions, with 70 percent of all financial institutions surveyed citing “regulatory uncertainty” as a cause for their hesitancy. Yet, according to Broadridge’s 2025 Tokenization… Read More >>
CFTC Unveils Tokenized Collateral Initiative
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is doing everything it can to facilitate a Golden Age of Crypto, according to Caroline D. Pham, the CFTC’s acting chairman. For instance, CFTC “will launch an initiative for the use of tokenized collateral, including stablecoins in derivatives markets. This initiative builds on the CFTC’s successful Crypto CEO Forum… Read More >>
Amber Premium Platform Enables Real-World Tokenization
A provider of institutional crypto financial services and solutions, Amber International Holding Ltd., aka Amber Premium, unveiled its Real World Asset (RWA) Solution — a turnkey platform that facilitates the tokenization of real-world asset classes, officials say. The offering has been designed to bring traditional assets into the blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) environment and features… Read More >>
BNY & Goldman Sachs Build Tokenized Solution for MMFs
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY) and the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. have begun a collaboration that requires BNY to use blockchain technology developed by Goldman Sachs to maintain a record of customers’ ownership of select money market funds (MMFs), representing an enhancement of “the utility and transferability of existing MMF shares,” officials… Read More >>
HSBC, FAB & ADX Launch MENA’s First Digital Bond
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), using the HSBC Orion digital assets platform, is moving ahead with the launch of bonds based upon distributed ledger technology (DLT) that will be listed and priced via the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), which serves the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. The DLT-based bond instrument has been “designed… Read More >>
Time to Embrace Tokenized Bank Liabilities?
A new report backed by regulators and financial services industry groups aims to set the stage for using tokenized bank liabilities and shared ledgers in cross-border payments and foreign exchange (FX) settlement. The initiative falls under Project Guardian, a global effort led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to enhance liquidity and efficiency in… Read More >>
Franklin Templeton’s ‘Benji’ Gets ‘Intraday Yield’ Feature
Global asset manager Franklin Templeton has launched the “Intraday Yield” feature for its Benji Technology Platform, a proprietary blockchain-integrated stack for the trading, management, and administration of token-based investments, officials say. The Intraday Yield service is intended to provide “proportional calculation and distribution of yield, down to the second, when a tokenized security is transferred… Read More >>
