Where Finance Finds Its Future

A Future of Finance interview Ian Hunt, an Independent Advisor and Author. Tokenisation enthusiasts are frustrated. A technology capable of transforming the entire financial architecture of the world is reduced to searching for “uses-cases” where it can mobilise or settle assets cheaper and faster than the status quo provided a “business case” can be made for making the investment. So the time was...

On 19 March 2026 Coinbase Asset Management added a tokenised share class to the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund (CBYF) it launched in April 2025. The tokens, issued on to the Base blockchain built by parent company Coinbase, are aimed at institutional investors. Digital fund administration pioneers Apex Group are supporting distribution of the tokens with blockchain-based transfer agency capabilities...

Institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is increasing. Why? In Europe, MiCAR has delivered regulatory certainty. In the United States, the new administration has embraced both cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins - the crucial bridge between the cryptocurrency and money markets - and the courts have authorised spot Bitcoin ETFs, turning cryptocurrencies into a legitimate institutional asset class....

On 21 April 2026 Lingfeng Capital, the Hong Kong based private equity fund, launched its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) on Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform built by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to host private funds. Archax, the London-based digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian, is simultaneously making the DVF available in tokenised form. While the case for investing...

Funds have emerged as the main axis of advance for tokenisation. Tokenised money market funds, used first by on-chain cryptocurrency traders, have found a second audience in traditional collateral management. Their close cousin, Stablecoins, are also migrating from the cryptocurrency markets to facilitate instant settlement of fund transactions and round-the-clock trading of tokenised funds. The q...

Every token issuer knows that scale depends on liquidity, but liquidity depends on scale. To break this cycle, Bermuda-based MembersCap, the specialist reinsurance investment manager, is making available composable versions of its tokenised funds. The firm is confident composability will extend the range of allocators open to investing in MembersCap funds beyond traditional end-investors such as f...

The balance between tokenised money market funds and tokenised money will shift. Public blockchains will continue to grow at the expense of private ones, but which protocols prove popular remains unpredictable. The infrastructure for the tokenised markets of the future is being built. Tokenised funds will be overtaken by tokenised securities. The transition from the intermediated markets of the pa...

Emmanuel Daniel , founder of the TAB Global research house, thinks about the effects of digital technology on finance and how the changes it makes possible will impact business and society. In  The Great Transition – the personalisation of finance is here , published in September 2022, he predicted that blockchain technology would shift Internet finance from centralised, market-based platform...

Future of Finance Interviews Richard Brown, Chief Executive of R3 Labs The pivot by R3 from private to public blockchains through its partnership with Solana might be one of those apparently arcane technical deals - like IBM and Microsoft or Apple and ARM - that changes everything. It allies regulated, institutional money with an open blockchain protocol that can compete with existing equity and d...

Explore the paradox of using artificial intelligence (AI) to make better people decisions than managers can do on their own. What is the event about? Many corporations, especially in financial services, attribute much of their success to the quality of their talent, which might suggest that they would also credit the HR function with helping them to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain said tale...

A Future of Finance interview with Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF. There are two main obstacles to the scaling of the markets in digital assets and one of them is the lack of interoperability between blockchain networks and between blockchain networks and traditional financial markets. The default answer, hallowed by history in multiple industries, is standards. By enabling different networks to exc...

A Future of Finance interview with Thorsten Peisl, Founder and Chief Executive at KALYP Technologies. In 2026 Kalyp Technologies celebrates the tenth anniversary of its foundation as a provider of blockchain infrastructure to the regulated capital markets. It is an ambition that has required patience as well as more obvious resources, since securing the regulatory endorsement on which institutiona...

On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited...

On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited...

On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited...

On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited...

On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing hou...

On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing hou...

On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing hou...

On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing hou...

On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing hou...

A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network. A Future of Finance interview with Quant Networks’ Chief Product Officer Martin Hargreaves. Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contr...

A Future of Finance interview with Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge Interview. Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge, speaks to Bob Currie about how financial services organisations are thinking about their futures and how Broadridge applies a customer-led Agile development approach to drive its innovation strategy. Recognising that not every development idea will result...

A Future of Finance interview with Milo Guastamacchia, Founder and CEO or Yooro. Technology-driven securitisation platform Yooro aims to simplify investor access to private markets, focusing on investors in the European Union, UK, Switzerland and the UAE. The company’s Founder and Chief Executive Milo Guastamacchia speaks to Bob Currie about how this is reshaping approaches to fundraising in unlis...

A Future of Finance Interview with Richard Brown, Chief Technology and Product Officer at R3. R3 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Richard G. Brown, R3’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, speaks to Bob Currie about the drivers for Corda’s design, how these are changing, and how far the company has fulfilled the targets that it envisaged at formation.  The discussion explores the...