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Tokenized assets now exceed $31 billion

Tokenized assets now exceed $31 billion

The market for tokenized real-world assets closed on 14 May 2026 at $31.4 billion, up from $11.2 billion in June 2025. That is +180% in under twelve months, along a solidly sustained trajectory: $15.3 billion in September 2025, $21.5...

Spain’s real estate opportunity through a tokenized lens

Spain’s real estate opportunity through a tokenized lens

Real estate combines three characteristics that are particularly well suited to tokenization: real assets, recurring financing needs, and an investor base seeking understandable opportunities backed by familiar structures. In...

Practical guide to the EU’s new Savings and Investment Union

Practical guide to the EU’s new Savings and Investment Union

Once these measures are approved in their final form, European capital markets will be deeper, more liquid and, above all, more effective at channeling citizens’ savings into the business projects that will define the future of the...

Mitsubishi brings tokenization to its intragroup treasury

Mitsubishi brings tokenization to its intragroup treasury

Mitsubishi gains agility to redistribute funds between different financial centers, flexibility to respond to last-minute cash needs and operations less constrained by the limits of the traditional banking system. All of this will...

Is Qivalis Europe’s Missing Tokenized Cash Leg?

Is Qivalis Europe’s Missing Tokenized Cash Leg?

A settlement token is only useful if market participants can source it easily. Qivalis has signaled an intent to support broad distribution, including professional liquidity channels, alongside bank distribution. For platforms like...

The Dawn of 24/7 Tokenized Markets

The Dawn of 24/7 Tokenized Markets

The announcement out of New York comes just as the US stock market ecosystem has been pushing hard for 23-hour trading and closing on weekends. While the exact launch date for the tokenized New York exchange has yet to be determined,...

The Clock is Ticking: The EU Must Save Its Capital Markets

The Clock is Ticking: The EU Must Save Its Capital Markets

In alliance with other DLT Pilot Regime operators and applicants, we have formally requested three undisputed and minimally invasive adjustments to be passed as a standalone Technical Update Regulation or as a part of a smaller...

The New Space Economy is Already Being Tokenized

The New Space Economy is Already Being Tokenized

The global space economy reached an estimated $414.75 billion in 2018, according to Space Foundation reporting, and has continued to grow since then. Alongside giants like SpaceX and Blue Origin, a wave of newer startups has entered the...

BNY CEO: Tokenization Is a Megatrend

BNY CEO: Tokenization Is a Megatrend

Robin Vince, CEO of BNY, recently said during an interview on CNBC that tokenization is “a megatrend”. BNY sits at the center of global markets plumbing, overseeing $58 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration. In public...

Giants Move Into Tokenization: DTCC and Clearstream

Giants Move Into Tokenization: DTCC and Clearstream

Together, DTCC and Clearstream oversee the custody, clearing or settlement of tens of trillions of dollars of securities across geographies. Given their combined scale, their entry into the tokenization space might be regarded as the...

Token City Exchange: Accelerating the Tokenized Economy in Europe

Token City Exchange: Accelerating the Tokenized Economy in Europe

With its Token City Exchange investment firm, the company is no longer just the “technology engine” behind tokenized issuances and will now directly assume intermediation and registry functions, to which we will add, within a single...