Traditional and digital finance are becoming increasingly entangled, leading to several interesting possibilities involving the so-called `tokenisation' of assets. Nonetheless, confusion often persists as to the exact definition of this term — alongside others such as distributed ledger technology (DLT) or cryptoassets.

      The below article explores the various ways that financial services firms are seeking to tokenise traditional assets and how regulatory regimes are evolving to keep pace. Against this rapidly changing landscape there are opportunities, but firms also need to ensure their risk management, governance, and resilience capabilities remain fit-for purpose.



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      Tokenisation and traditional finance

      Taking stock of developments.


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