Tokenization to unlock tens of billions, says Nasdaq CEO
Coming from the CEO of one of the world's largest stock exchanges, the prediction carries institutional weight that tokenization advocates have spent years waiting for.
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Coming from the CEO of one of the world's largest stock exchanges, the prediction carries institutional weight that tokenization advocates have spent years waiting for.
Roughrider Coin is the entry point. Fiserv's Commercial Center puts stablecoin rails in front of 90+ US banks and credit unions, the kind of distribution a standalone crypto issuer never reaches.
Fiserv is one of the largest US bank-tech vendors, processing payments for thousands of institutions. 90+ banks and credit unions opting in is the actual signal here, not the chain choice.
The partnership puts stablecoins closer to the payment workflows of traditional finance, though the announcement does not specify which stablecoins or when the service will launch.
The deal hands Bitpanda the distribution rails for one of Austria's largest banking groups across Central and Eastern Europe, extending the white-label playbook it already runs with Germany's N26.
All six of Canada's largest lenders are building blockchain-based deposits together, a coordinated move that puts bank money directly on 24/7 payment rails and signals how far TradFi is now willing…
The joint venture keeps customer funds inside the regulated banking system while testing 24/7 programmable payments, joining a global race among lenders to put deposits on blockchain rails.
Crypto's 24/7 perpetual rails are absorbing equity trading demand while U.S. markets are shut, with more than $8B combined volume across two recent event windows.
First bank live with stablecoin settlement across Mastercard's network, giving merchants instant, around-the-clock access to funds with no changes to their existing payment setups.
Retail customers can now request shares at the offer price before public trading, marking Coinbase Capital Markets' entry into primary-market equity deals alongside Wall Street underwriters.
JPMorgan's Kinexys moves $3T on permissioned rails and Citi Token Services processes billions daily, but neither reaches ordinary savers.
Collins sees banks, sovereign desks, and TradFi players joining the stablecoin issuance table next, with redemption as the gating test every new entrant will be measured against.
The push reframes U.S. securities markets on crypto's always-on terms, and pairs the trading-hours debate with a five-year tokenization exemption that gives TradFi a runway to build rails for…
Framing it as national-competition stakes rather than a niche experiment signals the SEC is preparing to clear pathways for broker-dealers and exchanges to wrap equities on-chain.
SPGI is not a name TradFi allocators would expect to buy a crypto-native security firm. With 900+ audits and the dominant smart contract library under SPGI, onchain risk assessment gains a…
Credit ratings stop at the issuer. Buying the security firm behind $37T in token transfers gives S&P a way to price the next risk layer banks will face as tokenized money hits their books.
For years the RWA sector has run tokenized equities in offshore venues and grey zones. The temporary SEC exemption now names a defined on-chain path.
Stablecoins have historically been a crypto-native affair. MoneyGram, Revolut and CACEIS jumping in this summer marks the category's clearest break from that origin story.
Fund/SERV processes over 85% of US mutual fund transactions, so the integration plugs Ondo's tokenized funds directly into the plumbing TradFi already uses for daily settlement.
ARB's same-session divergence from Bitcoin, Ethereum and its own L2 peer group adds a new institutional-research channel to the watch list for traders running event-driven books.