Just one day after the January 11 approval of 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs – including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) – by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, BlackRock Chair and CEO Larry Fink sat down with Bloomberg’s David Westin to discuss the implications of the world’s largest asset manager entering the Bitcoin market. Not…
JPMorgan’s managing director Tyrone Lobban noted that the new system has processed over $900 billion in assets since launch. Top executives from US-based financial services companies JPMorgan Chase and Apollo Global Management have revealed their plans for the tokenized enterprise mainnet, developed in collaboration with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The duo worked together…
Philippines’ state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines and Land Bank of the Philippines serve as the issue managers for the tokenized treasury bonds. The Philippines aims to boost its domestic debt market by introducing tokenized treasury bonds, with an initial offering of at least 10 billion pesos ($179 million). This marks the country’s first foray…
At the launch of the Verified USD (USDV) dozens of leading CeFi and DeFi like Animoca Brands, BIT exchange, Coin98 Finance, Matrixport, SushiSwap, and Stargate Finance, among many others will offer support for the revolutionary stablecoin project to its users. Verified USD Foundation, a non-profit and community-based organization that is working on revolutionizing the stablecoins…
HSBC, which is one of the largest banks in the world, revealed that for now, its custody plans involve “tokenized securities issued on third-party platforms.” HSBC Holdings (LSE: HSBA), in partnership with Ripple Labs subsidiary Metaco, has announced plans to launch a digital assets custody service for institutional clients. The service will offer custody for…
The ALT2511 bond would start trading at the price of 100 USDT and has a minimum investment threshold of 125,000 USDT. Bitfinex Securities has revealed its plan to list its first tokenized bond – ALT2611 – next month. According to the announcement, ALT2611 is a 36-month offering that comes with a 10% coupon rate. The…
The first transactions within the pilot included fund subscriptions and redemption of the tokenized fund represented as a smart contract. Notably, UBS used its own UBS Tokenize platform to conduct the transactions. Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company UBS Asset Management (SWX: UBSG) has launched the first pilot of a tokenized Variable Capital Company (VCC) fund – a…
The experiment was built on Swift’s earlier successes in connecting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital assets with existing and emerging payment systems. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the global financial messaging network, has unveiled the results of a groundbreaking experiment hindering the widespread adoption of tokenized assets. According to an…
Securitize intends to improve liquidity and transparency by transferring private investments onto public blockchains like Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, and Algorand. Securitize, a New York-based company focused on expanding investor and business access to tokenized alternative assets, announced Friday the acquisition of Onramp Invest, an asset management firm backed by Coinbase. According to an official press…
Backed’s RWAs can be accessed on Fantom (FTM), Avalanche (AVAX), Gnosis (GNO), BNB Chain, Arbitrum (ARB), Ethereum (ETH), and Polygon (MATIC). In an exciting development, Backed, a leading platform for tokenizing Real-World Assets (RWAs), has outlined its intention to integrate its innovative product lineup with multiple new blockchains. This development arises from the integration of…