BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched a tokenized share class of a French‑domiciled money market fund that is recorded on a public blockchain infrastructure, which marks the firm’s first step in its fund tokenization efforts via a public blockchain infrastructure, officials say. “The initiative relies on a permissioned access model on Ethereum, restricting holding and transfers… Read More >>
NYSE Builds Platform to Transact Tokenized Securities
Tokenized securities are taking a major step toward becoming mainstream as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been developing a platform that supports the trading and on-blockchain settlement of tokenized securities on a 24/7 basis, officials say. The new digital platform, which will need regulatory approval, will facilitate tokenized transactions via 24/7 operations, “instant… Read More >>
tZERO & Streamex Facilitate Secondary Trading of GLDY
Blockchain tokenization infrastructure provider tZERO Group has inked a deal with Streamex, a company specializing in institutional-grade tokenization of real-world assets and commodity-backed stablecoins. The agreement will enable secondary trading of Streamex’s new gold-linked stablecoin product, GLDY, on tZERO’s SEC- and FINRA-regulated alternative trading system (ATS). By wrapping an institutional-grade trading architecture around the product… Read More >>
DTCC, Digital Asset & Canton Network Tackle Tokenization
Post-trade infrastructure provider The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) is partnering with Digital Asset Holdings and the Canton Network to launch the tokenization of custodied assets from the Depository Trust Co. (DTC) on the Canton Network, officials say. The collaboration “creates a roadmap to bring real-world, high-value tokenization use cases to market, starting with… Read More >>
CFTC Seeks Nominees for ‘CEO Innovation Council’
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking “expert industry leaders” to join its new CFTC CEO Innovation Council, which is intended to help the regulator “in shaping responsible regulations that will lay the foundation for America’s Golden Age of Innovation,” says Caroline D. Pham, the acting chairman of the CFTC. Those who wish… Read More >>
SocGen Issues First U.S. Digital Bond via Broadridge
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 >>
