Over a quarter (26%) of institutional investors expect that pension funds, insurers, family offices and sovereign wealth funds will “dramatically” increase their level of investment in cryptocurrencies over the next five years.
Investing in digital assets – including funds - through tokenisation took a step forward after London-based Archax became the first digital securities exchange and custodian in the UK to be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Europe’s fourth-smallest state has built up a cryptocurrency industry – but, asks Nicholas Pratt, can it develop into a reputable and regulated centre for digital asset management?
Tokenisation has been touted as the saviour of private and illiquid markets. Nicholas Pratt asks how it can be done and how long it will take.
Funds Europe talks to Calastone’s Adam Belding about the funds network’s relationship with the nascent world of tokenisation.
Financial institutions have joined forces to develop a blockchain-based platform for the asset management industry in order to further digitise the sector and facilitate the distribution of funds.
We asked a series of the most prominent figures in the industry for their technology highlights of 2019 and what they would most like to see in 2020.
The application of new technology is important in helping the investment funds industry to win new business and to deliver secure, efficient services.
Deutsche Börse and Luxembourg-based fintech HQLAx have launched a jointly-developed distributed ledger technology (DLT) product designed to enable frictionless collateral swaps in the securities lending market.
WisdomTree has launched a physically-backed bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on the Swiss Stock Exchange.
