Tagged: tokenization

October 5, 2026 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The movement to tokenize assets, including digital securities, is gaining traction around the world. Most keenly in global financial centers. Today, OKX and ICE (parent company of the NYSE) have announced the creation of a Tokenized Securities Venue (TSV), which will aim to facilitate 24/7… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer 24/7 trading of tokenized securities. According to a post by OKX, the partnership would first focus on trading 60 US-listed… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 2:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has outlined three distinct ways to make central-bank money available on programmable networks, arguing that the safest settlement asset should remain accessible as markets move toward tokenized securities, deposits, and stablecoins. Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel presented the framework on… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Senior leaders at UK’s banking institutions, insurers, asset managers and financial sponsors increasingly view tokenisation as a force that will reshape how money and securities move through the financial system. Findings from Lloyds Banking Group’s tenth annual Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey show that 71 per… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has described tokenization as a new distribution channel for professionally built investment strategies, not merely a way to place individual funds or equities on a blockchain. The comment came as Ondo Finance launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, a product category in which a… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 10:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act “The Fed’s proposals show that stablecoins no longer need to wait for the broader market-structure fight to resolve. With the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, the GENIUS Act rulemaking is effectively making payment stablecoins the first… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) is building research into the access layer of its digital-asset franchise, treating analysis of decentralized finance as infrastructure rather than a side commentary on Bitcoin. This year, the banking institution has placed a dedicated digital assets research desk beside ETF access… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s financial regulator has taken the next formal step toward putting tokenized securities into the existing capital markets system, publishing draft subordinate rules that would let the framework start operating in early 2027. On October 1, 2026, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) proposed amendments to… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave V4 has opened a dedicated Equities Hub on Base that lets eligible users outside the United States post Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral and draw USDC loans against them. The first seven assets are AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 8:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The CLARITY Act remains top of mind in the digital asset sector. The CLARITY Act “The larger issue is that the US still lacks a clear rule for when a digital asset is a security, when it is a commodity, and which regulator is responsible…. Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay has taken a notable step toward regulated onchain capital markets by agreeing to acquire North Capital Investment Technology, a US private-markets infrastructure firm active in the securities crowdfunding sector. The companies announced a definitive merger agreement on September 23, 2026. Once the transaction closes,… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s lenders have recently launched a joint effort to study a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, aiming to keep the country’s payments rails competitive as digital money develops worldwide. On September 22, 2026, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance, working alongside BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) and Securitize, (NYSE: SECZ) has put forward its tokenized US Treasuries product, OUSG, as a candidate for Sky’s Spark Tokenization Grand Prix. The initiative, run by the protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, seeks to bring roughly $1 billion… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto investment firm Keyrock has announced the launch of Keyrock Securities, a subsidiary that supports tokenized securities and institutional derivatives. According to a release, Keyrock Securities is a dealer registered in the Cayman Islands via the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Blockchain.com are “exploring” 24/7 trading using tokenized shares. This would include US equities and ETFs. These securities would be made available to investors worldwide. The agreement is said to include deep market intelligence as the two sides share… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Eurosystem has taken a concrete step toward digital wholesale markets by launching Pontes, a service that lets tokenised asset trades settle in central bank money. The rollout is the first operational piece of a broader plan to keep official reserves at the centre of… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has widened access to one of its fastest-growing products, allowing a much larger group of traders to post tokenized US equities as collateral. The exchange said eligible users can now use bStocks in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin accounts, ending an earlier limit that… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

ClearToken has been accepted into the Bank of England Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) to run a Digital Securities Depository (DSD). ClearToken CSD will be able to offer a tokenized version of existing securities under the program. This includes: Tokenized securities including debt and equity A… Read More